Zelda U graphics

[VanceIX]

SvennoJ said:

VanceIX said:

SvennoJ said:
As usual the minority is the loudest. I'm happy with the poll results, very happy with the new art style. We've got enough 'realistic' western fantasy.

What's realistic about TP's style anyway, it's just a slightly darker cartoon.

In that case, Skyrim is also a slightly darker cartoon.

And you do realize that those "realistic" western fantasy games have and will continue to obliterate Zelda in sales?

I love the artstyle. It's beautiful, and the best they could have possibly done on the Wii U, imo. But in terms of sales, it won't do as well. That "minority" is like 33% of the gamerbase, who just look at graphics and then turn away. Shallow, yes, but that's how you get sales, and sales is exactly what the Wii U needs right now.

Those probably wouldn't buy a WiiU anyway.
Some day they'll grow up, meanwhile I'll enjoy stuff like Herdy Gerdy, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Valkyria Chronicles, PoP 2008, Catherine, Ni No Kuni, Pikmin 3 and this. Games you remember for their unique art style, not for how good the floor textures look.
I'm glad not every AAA game has to end up like this http://games.on.net/2014/06/ubisoft-game-the-review/

I love those games too, Ni no Kuni and Okami were beautiful especially, but you're forgetting that Nintendo actually wants to sell systems.

Realistic games sell the most. That's undebatable,  period. Zelda games that were "realistic", like OoT and TP (focusing on darker colors), sold heaps and moved tons of consoles. The others? Met with a little bit of fan skepticism, and middling sales overall. 

They don't want to buy a Wii U because it doesn't look like a "hardcore" console. People now see "hardcore" as being strictly graphics, and the Wii U has been unable to deliver completely in that aspect. 

The tech demo was the most "realistic" game I had ever seen. It alone would move so many Wii U units because it would show that the Wii U was capable of more. While I personally prefer this artstyle, lets not pretend that it will do nearly as well as any of the other "realistic" Zeldas, with the exception of MM (which was DoA).

The simple fact that we've had, what, four or five seperate topics over this demonstrates that a lot of the fanbase is torn on the artstyle.