| ethomaz said: I just said Mario is for everyone (fans included)... Metroid not... my girlfriend plays Mario but she is not a fan. Zelda was never a big frachise like the guys talk here... Zelda is even small than recente franchises like Gears and Uncharted. |
So your girlfriend determines what's nice and what isn't? =^/ Just teasing (mostly). 
Look, you're right that Zelda isn't currently an 800-pound gorilla, like it's often made out to be online. But there are more positions on the scale than "niche" and "Huge Franchise." I'm not going to draw a bright-line rule out of thin air here, but once you've consistently sold a whole bunch of millions per release, you stop being "niche." The series doesn't even sell steadily: if it's only selling to its fans, they've proven to be a remarkably fickle bunch.
