Sales: Why did TP soar and SS flop?

[Arius Dion]

amp316 said:

mike_intellivision said:
I love how for Nintendo that 3M sales is a FLOP.

Also, this is a pure case of lies, damned lies, and statistics.

If you look at the first 10 weeks after launch -- it is TP has 2.19M (2.23M adjusted for later two week later European launch) while SS has 3.03M (3.04M adjusted for one week later North American launch).

Yes, the first 10 weeks Skyward Sword "OUTSOLD" Twilight Princess by 38 percent not adjusted for launch differences (36 percent adjusted).

In other words, Skyward Sword did perform better. What is missing for it is all the ensuing years of sales. It probably will never achieve them because when it was launched in the console's life cycle. But to try to say that Skyward Sword did not sell is just not true.

Mike from Morgantown

This is all 100% true and it's funny that so many people ignored what you said to try to prove that TP is a better game.

The truth is that while neither game is perfect, I prefer SS.  Why?  It takes chances and suceeds more often than not IMO.  Get rid of the crappy hub world and it's much more entertaining.  TP, on the other hand, is just line OoT except longer, more boring, and with a wolf. 

I feel as though VGChartz is becoming a place where everyone posts and thinks the same and it's starting to scare me.

Agreed, I'm pretty impartial to both games, in fact I know its not the most popular thing to say but I thought WW was the worst of the last 3 Zelda outings, and MM wasn't even a game I felt compelled to play until the collectors disc I got when I bought WW.

After OoT Zelda takes a very different tone, and I'm not one to hold sacred cows. There were moments enjoyable in WW, TP and SS but the extra stuff you are obligated to go through in order to get to those moments becomes increasingly boring or nonsensical. Tad tones? really? Wolf? Sailing? Trains!?

As to your last sentence...yes, that is unfortunate.