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Frogger on 28 January 2014
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curl-6 said:

F0X said:

I shouldn't respond to this, because I shouldn't have to. I know you're not ignorant, and I want to believe that you consciously realize how faulty your implication is. But here I am.

Twilight Princess was released on two platforms with an ecosystem of 120+ million systems. Wind Waker was released on one platform with an ecosystem of 21+ million. I'm more inclined to believe that the mainstream gamer is more likely to buy a game on a more mainstream platform. Not some crap about collective art design preferences.

Players will buy the console for the game if it is desirable enough. Twilight Princess helped push the Wii to core gamers, and if it had come out in 2003 instead of Wind Waker GCN would have performed better.

WW was met with outrage, but TP was what gamers had wanted since Ocarina.

No it wouldn't have. GCN had Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. If those "dark and gritty games" couldn't help, Zelda wouldn't have either. And let's not forget that Wind Waker was the 4th best selling game on the system, behind only Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, and 3D Mario. The minority of anal gamers have mighty loud voices, but the sales beg to differ.

And guess what? Wind Waker HD was now met with great praise and enthusiasm. What's that say about gamers now?