Nintendo is completely out of touch with reality.

[Soundwave]

curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

Though there's still an audience for Zelda anyway, though Nintendo may not want to accept it, to get that type of number again (or close), people will likely want a darker Zelda. Twilight Princess brought that and was successful like Ocarina of Time. 

Preaching to the choir man, I've been arguing since the 2011 tech demo that Nintendo needs to make Zelda Wii U dark, in the vein of Twilight Princess.

Even darker I think. Honestly even a "dark" Zelda isn't much darker if at all than a typical Harry Potter movie, Nintendo has some warped notion that "family entertainment" can only mean 1950s-era Walt Disney levels of "dark" (even Disney has outgrown this thinking). But the Wii had a 100 million userbase too ... proportionately a lot of franchises simply were going to get a bump, I think TP benefited a lot from the early overwhelming enthusiasm for the Wii as a whole. 

Super Mario 3D World probably would've sold 20+ million copies on the Wii circa 2007 or 2008. On Wii U getting to 5 million LTD might be a struggle.