Even without Zelda U, could 2015 be the WiiU's best holiday yet?

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Soundwave said:

Materia-Blade said:

You're seriously using skyward sword to talk about hardware boosts? look at the wii's age and installed base when SS released.

And what info do you have about wind waker hardware boost?

Zelda will always be a system seller.

Substiute "always" with "once in a while". 

Zelda: Link Between Worlds also didn't do much for the 3DS. 

Zelda fans tend to be Nintendo fans (go figure, what a shock) ... they're going to end up buying the system either way, so it's not like there's a huge surge in sales. 

With *realistic* Zelda what you do get is sometimes you get the dudebros crowd who can be enticed by a "badass" (in their mind) Zelda to buy in, but core Zelda fans? Odds are they like Mario ... and about ten other Nintendo IP too.  

I don't really mind Zelda being delayed at all. Now maybe some folkes will actually give other games like Xenobalde or Star Fox a chance in its absence. 

I'm not even sure if "realistic" Zelda is the huge system seller people make it out to be. N64 was down YOY in 1998 despite Ocarina of Time releasing. Zelda is one of those titles people get excited about Nintendo hardware for so it's very likely that many people buy the hardware in advance of the game, similar to Mario Kart or Smash Bros or Mario platformers, u just automatically know these titles will make their way onto the hardware at some point so no reason to wait if there are a handful of titles ur already interested in.