Don't compare WiiU and GameCube

[TheLastStarFighter]

pezus said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

pezus said:
Uhm, isn't Wind Waker regarded as one of the top games of all time? Especially here on this site.

The topic isn't whether it's a good game.  It's whether it had mass appeal, and whether Wii U games will have appeal.  WW may be the best game in history, but many people passed because of it's toon look. Just the way it is.  If Zelda U looks like TP only better, it will draw core gamers and fringe Nintendo fans.  If it's toon, it will only get core Nintendo fans.  There is no reason to expect toon link, and there is no reason to expect it will have the weak draw of Zelda on GC.

You brush off it's cartoony artstyle, but isn't that what made the Wii so popular in the first place? The fact that it appealed to kids. The "16-26 yo male" crowd hardly mattered to Nintendo, and they surely didn't flock to Wii. I don't see how Nintendo making a more "casual" artstyle suddenly makes the thing less popular.

Wii was popular because it appealed to the mass audience.  The 16-25 crowd mattered. The 40 year old milf mattered.  The average age of Wii ownership was 30, not 10.  And a concept that is often lost on people is that even 10 year olds don't want something that looks like it was made for them.  They want something that their big brother would like to own.  So a console that looks like a Wii with a game that looks like TP is much more appealing to kids as well as older folk, as opposed to one that looks like lego.

Do you honestly think that toon Link is as appealing as realisitic Link?