Sales: Why did TP soar and SS flop?

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Arius Dion said:

DieAppleDie said:
i dont trust anyones op, i always try it myself before making any statement, i just pointed out that the game had mostly great reviews from every media.

There are too many factors to just say, disappointing sales=bad game, thats just ridiculous.
I actually believe it performed well taking in count the bad economy, strugglin vg market, Wiis death, no marketing, obligatory m+, sd graphics, .....etc.
too much things that have nothing to do with the quality of the game itself.

I respect that. But I'm not so sure I agree with the other factors inhibiting SS's performance other than its inability to entice enough consumers, or excite the base.

However, shelf life will be considerably shorter than TP's and that most certainly will favor TP's overall performance, but its not like SS has ever lit up any sales charts anyway. You belive its for reasons you've mentioned with are good ones btw, but I'm more of the belief of had the game been better overall that its performance would have reflected that.

I've seen SS receive more mixed reviews than any other Zelda game prior. And in my opinion, the controls weren't the problem, the lack of enough compelling content was. WSR required M+ and that things sold 30m (yes bundled, yada yada etc.)

additionally, I am not saying sales equals quality, its more complex than that, and not every game will sell like NSMB or WS, but a successful games are supposed to spark excitement and provide momentum and SS did neither. I wouldn't call the game a flop, in terms of sales, but definitely for a game with as much dev time as this should have been a crowning acheivement and much more fulfilling than it was. Imho of course.

SS didn't light up sales charts? It's performing better than TP in the same time frame. In a single week it did over a million units!

Also if you have never seen a zelda game get more mixed reviews then you have only been paying attention to Zelda games for what? 2 years? Without even having to take a look I can say that Phantom hourglass, Spirit Tracks, four swords and majoras mask had more mixed reviews. I would also wager that there would be a substantial amount of the earlier games/portable games there. 

Oh also ''The quality of a product can be traced to its markets performance. '' ''I am not saying sales equals quality'' So which is it? Sales do equal quality or they don't? As you seem to be flip flopping on it. 

For someone who has Link as your avatar you sure hate Zelda. So skyward sword was bad, WW was bad, MM was bad, Tp was boring. So basically of the modern zeldas you like Ocarina of time and think everything else is a disappointment? What a unique attitude that is. I'm guessing you disliked ST too since you refer to increasingly boring nonsense like trains. Probably PH as well.