Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: (To 31st December) Switch at 103.54m shipped

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Valdney said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

It's a clear message SS HD remaster is not worth it, only that. Ocarina of time sold over 6 million in 3DS a system with a significant smaller userbase than Switch. 

There is market for story driven Zelda, as long the game is good and/or there is significant work made for the game to improve it (like they did with Wind Waker). Skyward Sword is a half assed port from a game that isn't exactly well liked and got average reviews for a Zelda game, only 82 on Opencritic in a franchise where almost all home console titles got a 90+

If Wind waker is a good example of a good story driven Zelda game in good demand, then why are  sales  so pathetic? Why  does the HD version with all the improvements have even more pathetic sales??  The data is crystal clear, Puzzelda doesn’t hold a candle  to open world Zelda. And most importantly: open world Zelda lights the world on fire and moves hardware, lots of it. 

OoT is a different beast.  OoT is a great game indeed, and it still carries a lot of what makes the older titles great. 

The Wind Waker was released on GameCube and the Wii U - two systems with install bases of rougly 20 % and 15  % of where the Switch is currently sitting at.

It can't be denied that Nintendo seem to have struck gold with the open-world formula of BotW and brought tons of new players to the series, but if they had followed it up with another critically acclaimed "linear story Zelda" it could still have done incredible numbers on the Switch. Personally I hope the series will draw elements from both types going forward.