Nuvendil said:
Dwindling? I would hardly say that's a fair assessment. The original Twilight Princess is the best selling Zelda ever (not counting the absurd number of OoT rereleases :P ). Skyward Sword sold over 4 million with the Wii's reputation shot to hell, the Wii U already announced with an HD Zelda demo being shown on it, in a year competing with Skyrim and with absolutely no advertisement whatsoever. Not saying it will sell 13 million in its first 12 months but Zelda at launch is a heck of a lot better than most launch lineups. I mean, Xbone had Rise: Son of Rome and the PS4 had Killzone Shadowfall as their two big exclusive games, neither one of which was memorable in any way other than technical achievements. And yet they both had good launches and the PS4 had a great first year. But it's more down to marketing than anything else. Exclusives and launch titles are tools, you have to use them right. |
Those systems sold well at launch because people actually wanted those systems, they care about those brands, and they know those systems will get games. Not really something you could say about Ninty at least not there home consoles.
