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Wyrdness on 12 June 2014
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curl-6 said:
Wyrdness said:
curl-6 said:
Wyrdness said:

The are people like that sure but I don't think I agree that it'll affect the game's sales as much like people think.

I dunno; since the rise of the dudebro gamer over the last decade, a fear of appearing childish has become very prevalent in the gaming community.


Problem is the dudebro gamer was never going to bother with Zelda regardless because even if it used a more realistic visual style it still doesn't have the typical things they look for (blood, violence, shooting, risque content etc...), for Zelda to appeal to them the actual game would need to become something else entirely, Zelda is not a game to shift units but one to light up a gaming library. Imo the game will at least hit 3m and eventually cross 4m as it appeals to people with a different or wider taste in games and has for a while now. The U has one of the strongest attach rates of any platform released as well.

It wouldn't have needed boobs and guns, a Twilight Princess approach in tech demo graphics would have been enough for many. Something they could show off as "Zelda is cool again" to their friends.

Zelda can be a system seller; even this version, anime graphics and all, will boost sales will it comes out.



No it wouldn't otherwise many other games with that graphical approach would have done better, the are games already out that have that visual approach you're heavily overestimating that visual approach's overall affect, the people you're referring to only care about the CODs and such and are oblivious to anything outside of such games. The only people it would have been enough for are already Zelda fans or already have an interest in it, Zelda has never really been a massive system seller since OOT and a lot of that was due to the jump to 3D, it's always been a complimentary AAA title for the library, MK8, Smash, NSMB, Wii Series etc... These are the system sellers while Zelda is one of those games like Last of Us which are much better games and compliment the system sellers. This is why Nintendo has been securing games like Bayonetta 2 and DT because these are the games that catch that demographics attention not Zelda.