Sales: Why did TP soar and SS flop?

[Joelcool7]

Also another factor is the five years TP has been on the market and its retail pricing. Plus the market demographic when Wii launched the core gamers who usually support these kinds of games bought Wii's but after years of casual games and shovel ware they moved on. This left Nintendo with only the die hard Nintendo fans to support Skyward Sword.

Simply put there are so many reasons for Skyward Sword to fail, the fact that it has done this good is amazing.

A release on WiiU would be a terrible idea, the game while being great is going to be ancient by release of WiiU. Its graphics will be horrifically dated on WiiU and all the hardcore Nintendo fans will have already purchased it on Wii and won't likely rebut it. It would send a horrible message to 360/PS3 gamers that Nintendo rather then releasing new high quality content are going to rehash a game they never wanted.

If Nintendo wants success they will want a return to photo realistic darker and grittier Zelda. TP making a come back no cell shaded or cartoon look, yes I loved Wind Walker and enjoyed Skyward Sword but the average consumer did not.

These supposed hardcore gamers are not really gamers. They are posers they play games they buy games but they don't play or buy games for the games. They buy them for the graphics and the shock and awe factor. They don't want a AAA amazing game they want a gritty graphically stunning master piece.

Just look at CoD:MW3 or BlackOps. Both inferior games to BF3 and I would even say inferior to HomeFront. Yet what sold? These are not actual gamers, a gamer enjoys games loves games these guys want eye candy they want realism.

So if Nintendo wants to sell Zelda at 7-10 million copies. They need to take the amazing game play that is Zelda and add on a coat of beautiful stunning HD graphics. That way you attract the real gamers with the high quality game and the graphic whore pretend gamers with the dark gritty and graphical master piece. Best of both worlds.

Or if they don't care about making a good game, call up Treyarch and hire them to make Call Of Hyrule a gritty dark graphical first person shooter. Gordon's carrying plasma rifles and Link with the Master Rifle, set in a futuristic Hyrule where evil aliens known as the Ganon fleet have invaded. Its up to our hero to pump those alien scum bags full of lead and save the princess from being raped up the ass by an evil pig monster. Game includes graphic gratuitous violence, blood and gore, scenes of nudity and drug and alcohol abuse. Rated M for Mature and you can actually see the flesh searing off the faces of villagers as the flame thrower tears through their town.

Now that hunk of garbage would sell 10+ million copies, ruin my childhood and destroy any and all credability Nintendo has with its fans. But hey they would win over the pretend core gamer, throw in online multiplayer with 32 on 32 and free for all death matches. You'd have a hit on your hands!