Skullwaker on 16 February 2015
| the_dengle said: It's kind of premature to draw such a conclusion, considering for 20 years 3D Zelda and 2D Zelda coexisted on entirely separate platforms. It made more sense to conclude that home console Zelda sold better than handheld Zelda, considering A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening released in fairly close proximity and the former outsold the latter handily. The status quo didn't change until 2011, the first time a 3D Zelda was released on a handheld. I think we can all agree that Four Swords Adventures doesn't really count as a home console 2D Zelda game. Especially with all the accessories needed to play the damn thing.
Those Tomodachi Life sales are pretty impressive. |
You raise a fair point. I guess we can use Majora's Mask as a guinea pig, considering it's the worst selling 3D Zelda on the same handheld as ALBW, so we can compare its sales to that. Then we just need a real 2D Zelda on a home console, but I don't really think that's going to happen soon.
It's probably more safe to say that home console Zeldas sell better than handheld Zeldas. It just so happens that 3D and 2D are typically exclusive to those platforms. At least until the 3DS launched, that is.
