Yeah it did. I see it as being one of the worst selling console Zelda games (depends on perspective I suppose). The backlash led to TP..as well as the awesome E3 reception.

To a minor extent, probably. Wii U sales will go up by a double digit percentage both release weeks.

According to VGChartz, The Wind Waker is the 6th most sold Zelda episode, with 4,60 million units for 21 million Gamecube units sold. A ratio of a bit less than one fifth. This doesn't mean something, cause Zelda games are prdominantly bought by fans but we can hope a ratio of one tenth, may be 700.000 or 800.000 units sold by the end of the year. There are Zelda fans who are not Mario fans, but I think that they are not so much. Moreover, it's a remake. The Wind Waker HD is definitely not a system seller in my opinion.

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It will help sell units but certainty wont be a big system seller. Nothing near as much a new Zelda would sell. We will see a boost for a few weeks then drop back down for a little and then pick right back up during the holidays.

I don't think it will move a huge amount of systems, but I do think it will be the jumpstart the system needs. So many people never enjoyed the original, and to them this is just a shiny new Zelda game. Combined with the price cut, the Wii U looks better than ever.

Most 'casual' buyers or people who don't spend time online discussing videogames probably won't even know it's a remake, they'll just think it's a new game, regardless of the 'HD' sub-title.

..then Nintendo didn't get the memo that they've been doomed circa 1989.

On a serious note, it would be better if Nintendo would have added more to its core content, and its structure.
From what I remember, there were hardly anything to do prior to the Triforce Quest segment... I'd love it if they added a dungeon or two, plug in an extra sidequest, or perhaps a demo or trailer of their upcoming Zelda project would've been nice.

I was not a fan at first when it was first released (following Ocarina of Time), but I've learned to appreciate it overtime.

The Wii U itself is soldout, or just the Zelda bundle?

And you said that at your Wal-mart there was still one, which you will be buying this morning.

The only way WW will sell more systems is because there is a segment of Nintendo/Zelda fan boys that don't crossover with Mario and therefore haven't gotten WiiU yet.

If there is such a crowd? It can't be any more than 100k or so... Just based on historical Zelda game sales.

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