It didn't make it sell like crazy but it definitely had an impact. Much like Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of time was extremely hyped back them and people wouldn't shut up about it ... and they still haven't.

Actually i would say OoT did alot for N64. Like u said its the highest selling Zelda on a single console, the 4th best selling N64 game, nearly 1/4 N64 owners bought it and its widely considered as the best game ever. Its pretty safe to say without it N64 would have sold much less.

I am only interested in Zelda for Wii U if I don't have to use the Gamepad. The battery life at 3 hours just isn't enough and even playing something simple like Child of Light, the stupid red light starts blinking before I am done playing and I just don't like being limited by the controller's battery life.

My PS4 controller also runs out of battery too fast, but I have two of those, so I just switch to the other. I can't have two Gamepads and leave one always on charge while I use the other.

Also, I really liked the controls in Skyward Sword. The game's problem was that they were lazy in the design by having disconnected parts of the game world, rather than a big expansive world for players to explore and enjoy at their own pace. The things they did to make the over world more "dense" with stuff that needs to be done just made the game feel more linear. All those issues aside, the actual controls were so much better than past Zelda games.

This article is dumb. The Zelda games that sold less usually had mechanics/features that were too annoying to the player. MM is hated for the limited 3 day time. And skyward sword is Fii with the repeating info. Repeating unskipable explanations. Really annoying overworld. And motion controls that don't respond correctly. OO had Navi. But it's the only negative to a good game. And she can be ignored. While forced prompts in Skyward can't. Zelda 2 is considered a bad Zelda. From the level up system being teadius. And sidescrolling. Windwaker, the cell grapahics were hated when it was new. The only place were it does decline is Japan. But the US is the bigger audiance. So it off sets it.

Cos it ain't coming out til the end of 2015....

considering how much the N64 ended selling is that anything to be proud of? 33mil sold? thats my point, those are still lousy numbers and a drop from SNES

thats not a good comparison considering the system that FF7 released on sold 3 times as much as N64

what difference did it make? the system still flopped, unless 33mil sales is considered good. a Ninty console? coming of the back of SNES? naw

Oh come on. I guess PS3 is nothing to be proud of either. 50% drop from its predecessor. N64 sold at healthy actually profitable levels for Nintendo, and a solid portion of that profit came from Zelda and any systems it sold. Profit that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Now, they're probably more ambitious than merely remaining profitable, but isn't Sony as well? (well, I'm not so sure on that one) (;