Prediction-A late summer early fall Smash release means a holiday 2014 Zelda U release date!

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Dragon246 said:

Dragons Crown is the best selling vanillaware game ever, and cost only ~$1 million to make. So, no, the sales have been awesome for it and Atlus and Vanillaware agree with that.

That's good for them, but its still an example of a new IP selling a fraction of what established franchises do.