| HylianSwordsman said:
Let me explain then. You said one fuck up will kill a franchise. Final Fantasy has had not one, not two, not three, but at the very least FOUR fuckups. The XIII trilogy and don't forget Final Fantasy XIV, which had to be completely remade shortly after launch for being so bad. Zelda had THREE CD-i monstrosities, and then there's the Four Swords games, which no one really liked and sold TERRIBLE. This means that both Final Fantasy and Zelda have had at least one fuck up, and therefore, according to what you said, they should be dead. Yet in the next statement, you say they're just damaged. That is a contradiction.
Capcom's series are also damaged, but they're not dead either. Take Devil May Cry. The series sold 3 million for the original, 2 million for 2, 4 million for 3, and 3 million for 4. The reboot only sold 1 million. It could be called a fuck up. But that's just damage, it's not death. Now look at Mega Man. His highest selling title is 1.5 million. He was never that big sales wise. Yet he's one of gaming's icons, enough that Nintendo put him in Smash. Each time his series was rebooted sales went up again. After sinking to a quarter million with 7, it shot up to over a million with Mega Man X. Legends also almost got a million. Most of the stuff that's done worse than 7 sales wise were a bunch of portable system ports, and some Gamecube and Xbox games. A reboot could definitely help Mega Man. Just look at Mighty Number 9! I could go on and on with this, but I won't. The series are damaged, not dead.
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