Emily Rogers rumor: Zelda U to have a playable female, fully voice acted, releasing NX and Wii U

[zorg1000]

Wyrdness said:

zorg1000 said:

whats your point?

he said that many developers in the 80s were afraid that female leads would hurt sales.

You then pointed that Metroid & Zelda released in the same year.

i pointed out that your example was bad because Metroid sold much less.

im not trying to prove hes right, im just pointing out thst your example is a bad one.

Tbh your reply doesn't make much sense because the post he replied to was suggesting Nintendo would have been reluctant to have a female lead in which case Metroid counters that argument fully because they're one of the first companies to have a female lead in one of their major franchises. The sales between the two franchises is irrelevant to what he was arguing.

the highlighted quote said many developers, that statement isnt targeting Nintendo specifically, it is speaking of the overall market at the time.

the statement is that many developers were afraid so he points out 1 out of hundreds of games from the time period that had a female lead, like that one game disproves that many people felt a certain way?

also the people behind Metroid & Zelda are different people. Miyamoto/Tezuka may have feared a female would impact sales, that doesnt mean that Yokoi/Sakamoto felt the same way.