Does artstyle really affect Zelda sales?

[VanceIX]

spemanig said:

VanceIX said:

It sold well on Gamecube too, which didn't have motion controls.

And why didn't SS sell well then? It came out when 90 million people already owned a Wii, had better motion controls than anything before, and still managed to flop. 

People like realistic graphics. TP was praised as the second coming of OoT before it was even released due to the adult Link and graphics. The GC version alone had unprecedented sales, especially seeing as that Nintendo pretty much cut support for the system right after. Not as much as the Wii, but a lot for a dead system.

No it didn't. It sold 1/3 of what WW sold on the GCN. SS didn't sell as well because the Wii was dead when SS came out, and the motion control fad was already over. If SS was the lauched with the Wii instead of TP, it would have sold just as well. If TP was launched in place of SS, it would have sold just as mediocre. TP is also criticized for being having an ugly color pallet and aging terrebly. The GCN version did not have "unprecidented sales."

And selling 3.75m units on a dead console using a control scheme people came to revile years prior is not a "flop."

The Wii wasn't even close to "dead" at that point. The GC was "dead" when TP was released, and it still managed to reach a third of WW's sales, even though there was no support for it and it was the secondary version, coming out a month after the "true" version.

The Wii still got a solid year or so of support after Skyward Sword was released. Nintendo just completely dropped support for the GC for the most part after TP was released.

And people hated TP's control scheme on the Wii even more, and yet it sold more on a much smaller install base when released.