The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: EoW Trailer Shows Off Still World, Swordfighter Form

[cyberninja45]

irstupid said:

cyberninja45 said:

irstupid said:
Did the 64 win?

It had arguably the best game of all time.  

Did the GC outsell the 64?

You placing a lot of sales on Zelda which has never been a huge system seller.

64 sold what 10 million more than the gamecube.

How many zelda's have sold 10 million?  'hint answer is none

Wind Waker sold only 3 million less than the best selling Zelda game ever (ocarina, or TP if you join GC/Wii sales).  It sold over a million more than the previous Zelda.

So let me ask you this.  Did Wind Waker lose 3 million fans of the Zelda series or did it retrieve 1 million of the fans back.

1998 - Ocarina of Time - 7.6 million

2000 - Majora's Mask - 3.36 million

2002 - Wind Waker - 4.6 million

Looks like Wind Waker saved a dying franchise from those numbers.  And as you pointed out, GC had smaller userbase.

As I pointed out in another post OOT and MM are as different as Metroid Prime and Other M. Let me put it another way did you consider Mario to be a dying franchise because of this?

2009- New Super Mario Bros Wii - 27.12 million

2010- Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 7.07 million

I want you to seriously answer that question.

Admittedly back on the nes and snes zelda was not much of a system seller, it was game you bought because you already have the console and it was a good game, popular but  not a system seller at the time. But after OOT it was a game people would have bought a console for because it built its reputation as a must have game.