Zelda U... Nintendo's attempt to win back the Japanese?

[NightDragon83]

RolStoppable said:

NightDragon83 said:
Even in the old days Zelda was too western for the Japanese. Real time combat, open world to explore, no convoluted, overly dramatic storyline and sulking characters with severe emotional problems.

Even on the Wii and DS the Zelda games sold poorly. The only way Zelda will be popular in Japan is if Nintendo licenses it out to Square and we get Final Zelda XXXVIII: now with even LONGER corridors!

You do realize that the Zelda games of the old days are the bestselling ones in Japan, right? After all, there's a sales chart in the original post.

Yes I know, and my point was that even in the old days the "bestselling" Zeldas didn't really sell all that much.  The original LoZ is ranked the 13th best selling NES game on VGChartz.  THIRTEENTH.  Vollyball sold more.  Mahjong sold more.  Hell, GOLF sold more.

On the SNES, A Link To The Past, arguably the best Zelda ever, is ranked 25th all time in Japan.  TWENTY, EFFING, FIFTH!!!

Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker are both 4th for their respective consoles in Japan, but that's probably more due to the limited library and install base of the consoles.

And on the Wii, the best selling Nintendo console of all time, neither Zelda came anywhere close to cracking the 1 million mark, and both are well out of the top 25 all time games.