letters to nintendo (if starfox 64 can have it, why not zelda?)

[Sullla]

Oyvoyvoyv said:
Zelda won't have voice acting, because the series aren't strong enough to face that. The Zelda hardcore base was more than halfed due to MM and WW. Yes, I can back those facts up. According to Iwata during the Nintendo Conference 07 fall, 3 % of OoT owners were female being, presumable humans, while as much as 20 % for TP and 33 % for PH. The number was 8% for WW I think.

When you then see that OoT sold 7.6M, while TP will end up at 5-6M, and 4-4.5 taking away females, as there are very few core females. TP also has a lot more casuals, Iwata said under NC that 35 % of the players of PH were first time zeldaers, and the TP number was not much lower. So let's say 30%, and that 17.5 % of those are the females, we still have 30-35% first time Zeldaers for TP. That means there are 2-3M potential cores for TP, while there are 7.6M for OoT.

That wasn't really my point. Look at MM and WW. MM caused the base to split a bit, and WW was a disaster. 20-35 % of the userbase pooped out of the window, presumably to never return, because of these games.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here, especially the part about female gamers. Is the point that Zelda is becoming a more "casual" series (?) The userbase certainly isn't disappearing, because Twilight Princess sales compare extremely favorably to the rest of the series:

1		The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time		Nintendo	7.60m	8.74	7.60m
2		The Legend of Zelda		Nintendo	6.51m	7.84	6.51m
3		The Legend of Zelda: Link To The Past		Nintendo	4.61m	8.14	4.61m
4		The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess		Nintendo	4.58m	8.38	4.58m
5		The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker		Nintendo	4.38m	7.99	4.38m
6		The Legend of Zelda: Adventure Of Link		Nintendo	4.38m	7.79	4.38m
7		The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening		Nintendo	3.83m	7.84	3.83m
8		The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass		Nintendo	3.63m	8.00	3.63m
9		The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask		Nintendo	3.36m	7.91	3.36m
10		The Legend Of Zelda: Links Awakening DX		Nintendo	2.22m	7.82	2.22m
11		The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess		Nintendo	1.34m	7.97	1.34m

Add together the Gamecube and Wii sales for Twilight Princess, and the game is just shy of 6m. It's still selling a considerable number of copies each week, and will certainly be re-released later on as a cheaper Player's Choice title, so Twilight Princess should easily pass the original Legend of Zelda game as the second-best selling game in the series. It also has an outside chance of surpassing Ocarina of Time sales if the Wii has a long lifespan. If the sales are there, I'm not sure why it matters who is purchasing the game, serious or casual fans, male or female gamers.

I also have no idea what this has to do with voice acting...