The concept of Zelda 1 is what we need for the series right now, in my opinion. Freedom, combat focused (even with the items themselves), far less or NO puzzles, non-linearity, player growth (optional swords/armor/items and so on, maybe expand on this even further), high exploration that isn't limited by game progress, a huge overworld, higher difficulty, enemies everywhere, maybe even a second quest. Just imagine Zelda 1 on the Wii but with an overworld 3-4x as large with even more content and freedom placed into it..towns or even cities would be great..that is my ideal Zelda game, 2D or 3D makes no difference so long as the quality is captured solidly in either.

But Nintendo would never make another Zelda game like that. Zelda 1 and LttP are the only ones, and those are very old (but still great) games that deserve to be put on the scale of a modern day game. Skyrim would have some serious competition.

I'd like to see if Retro Studios or some other west developer could do it. Modern Zelda fans say the concept of old Zelda would be a flop, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Just look at Skyrim's success. An excact clone with the same size and length of Zelda 1 or LttP, for a modern day on a home console, may not sell as great, but that would be unfair and stupid. Zelda 1 is a 25 year old game..it could -easily- expand to the size and content of Skyrim and have a few old kinks polished up. That would undoubtedly sell loads (Zelda 1 sold to a cold market without name recognition and still sold nearing 7 million. Just as Mario Kart expanded its sales, so could Zelda), I truly believe that. Just don't go making it look like TWW or something.

Where do you live? Not here in the U.S..

I just can't get why....

Userbase: Wii : 95 millions,   3DS 14 millions

Competition on the platform: Wii: None for this holiday, 3DS  Mario 3D Land and Mario kart who are selling huge

Plus the previous Zelda on Wii is the best sold of the whole serie if you include the gamecube numbers.

So why Skyward Sword is selling so bad? Zelda has never been among the greatest sales but still. Being beaten by a remakeof the same serie is quite terrible.

It looks like it won't even reach Wind Waker numbers, a game released on parc of just 22 millions gamecube.

It's quite logical. It's not like the Wii has 95 mill active users, that number is surely substantially lower after a full year of no games being released for the system. Casual games like Just Dance and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics are selling like crazy because most of the core gamers who bought a Wii are now buying games for the PS3 or 360.

This is not true.  Wii players still play on the Wii  and still buy the major release as every big games released is a best seller. Except Zelda, who sold decently but not according to what we could have expected.

OoT 3D is being lifted by the bundle and was released far earlier in the year. Not to undermine OoT 3D's success - The fact that so many people are grabbing it and the bundle shows that people are interested in the first place. It has competition - SM3DL and Mario Kart 7, and a lot of people are still buying it (and I can't even find a bundle where I am - I'm not convinced the "limited" bundle is all that is causing OoT 3D to uprise) over or with those games.

But people are actually undermining Skyward Swords sales. not OoT 3D sales. It's selling at a faster pace than TP, and being (TP) an AAA title with name recognition as a launch title IMPROVES sales upon launch (and it was released for the Holidays just like Skyward Sword!). It's true that TP had a good  5 years to sell, though..and that's why SS is selling faster. I don't believe the game will die out near the Wii U's release and it's faster start will assure that it legs to 4-5 million anyway.

However, it's possible to go either way. We just have to wait and see what happens. The Oracles/Majora's Mask released late into their systems life cycles and didn't sell as amazing as other Zelda games in the long run. If Skyward Sword fails to make it to 5 million or even TWW numbers, it isn't anything we haven't seen in the past with the series anyway.