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Frogger on 02 December 2013
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Soleron said:
spemanig said:
Soleron said:
spemanig said:
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No. Not negative reception. Criticism. Something that every game, no matter how good, will get. And yes, many fans DID like the DS games. At least the ones who played it did.

And you are in the small minority. The fanbase doesn't feel the way you do. The reviews show that. The very small yet very vocal minority feels the same way you do. I say it all I want because it's true. Most people love Skyward Sword. 

The sales don't justify the investment.


Zelda games aren't expensive to make when compared to other AAA games, even IF they didn't sell well, and they do.

They are Nintendo's most expensive game to make though. And they're not remotely Nintendo's highest selling game. Therefore their priorities are wrong.


Zelda will never be Nintendo's highest selling game. That has nothing to do with how "dark" it is. It's a geeky game for geeky people. As long as it's a single player game about an elf boy with a sword in tights, it will never sell as well as Mario Kart or Pokemon. Their priorities are fine.

It doesn't matter if it's Nintendo's most expensive game to make if it still inexpensive and it is still lucrative. "5 years * ~100 of their best people" wouldn't be justified on a typical AAA 7th gen budget, but for the budget of a game like Skyward Sword, it's fine.

And frankly, Nintendo makes so much money off cheap to make games like Mario Kart and NSMB that it can afford to take monetary liberties on lesser selling franchises.