curl-6 said:
Wyrdness said:
curl-6 said:
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 "cool". Look at the all the "Nintendo games are kiddy" BS for example.
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Nope Wiisports and the low price was the system seller, many people who Wiisports brought in bought TP eventually want to know what else backs this the game only sold 1.6m on GC, TP rode Wiisports success and was the only other game of note for months on the Wii in the first year. Also don't try putting words in my mouth I know gamers like what looks cool my point is it doesn't mean they'd buy it like you and many others think this is why Nintendo stopped trying to cater to their whims in developing their games. |
Wii TP was the better version compared to GC, few wanted the inferior version. And even in 2006 plenty of gamers belittled Wii Sports; TP on the other hand was the Zelda they'd been waiting for for years.
And appearing "cool" or not is one of the biggest factors in what those type of gamers buy. And those kind of gamers are very, very common. |
What version you prefer doesn't make it better as ultimately the only differences are the controls, I prefer the Wii controls but the are many who prefer the GC controls and didn't like the Wii controls. Being cool doesn't guarantee sales otherwise Duke Nukem would of crushed in sales, Aonuma realized this and has smartly decided to not sacrifice vision to be cool as it takes more then being cool to appeal to that demographic.
