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curl-6 said:
Deeds said:
curl-6 said:

I wasn't talking about personal preference, I was talking about commercial appeal in the current market. 


You are posting non-sense. What commercial appeal are you talking about? Pokemon has commercial appeal and it has so-called "kiddy" graphics.

The market for Pokemon is not the same as the (potential) market for Zelda. A toon Zelda only appeals to existing fans. A Zelda in the style of the tech demo would have attracted gamers who will now avoid it.

This is just coming from personal opinion, but I respect companies who don't cave and give in to the mainstream "dude bro" gamer that has plagued the industry for the last 5-7 years.  Companies chasing after these fans is why the first person shooter genre is now nothing but CoD and Battlefield clones. It's why JRPGs are all but gone, or have stripped away much of what made them what they were (Final Fantasy XIII). It's why the industry takes less risks. It's why everything colourful and interesting is shunned in favour of grey and brown and shooting and explosions.

Sure, the industry is more mainstream now than it ever was.  But for a lot of people who were there from the beginning, that isn't necessarily a good thing.