curl-6 on 12 June 2014
| Wyrdness said: 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. |
Twilight Princess was a major system seller, it's what brought in the early "hardcore" Wii owners who dismissed Wii Sports as "gimmicky."
And I think you overestimate gamers if you think a huge amount of them aren't hung up on whether something is "cool", and don't see bright cartoon graphics as "uncool". Look at the all the "Nintendo games are kiddy" BS for example.
