Sullla said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Zelda won't have voice acting, because the series aren't strong enough to face that. The Zelda hardcore base was more than halfed due to MM and WW. Yes, I can back those facts up. According to Iwata during the Nintendo Conference 07 fall, 3 % of OoT owners were female being, presumable humans, while as much as 20 % for TP and 33 % for PH. The number was 8% for WW I think.
When you then see that OoT sold 7.6M, while TP will end up at 5-6M, and 4-4.5 taking away females, as there are very few core females. TP also has a lot more casuals, Iwata said under NC that 35 % of the players of PH were first time zeldaers, and the TP number was not much lower. So let's say 30%, and that 17.5 % of those are the females, we still have 30-35% first time Zeldaers for TP. That means there are 2-3M potential cores for TP, while there are 7.6M for OoT.
That wasn't really my point. Look at MM and WW. MM caused the base to split a bit, and WW was a disaster. 20-35 % of the userbase pooped out of the window, presumably to never return, because of these games.
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here, especially the part about female gamers. Is the point that Zelda is becoming a more "casual" series (?) The userbase certainly isn't disappearing, because Twilight Princess sales compare extremely favorably to the rest of the series: Add together the Gamecube and Wii sales for Twilight Princess, and the game is just shy of 6m. It's still selling a considerable number of copies each week, and will certainly be re-released later on as a cheaper Player's Choice title, so Twilight Princess should easily pass the original Legend of Zelda game as the second-best selling game in the series. It also has an outside chance of surpassing Ocarina of Time sales if the Wii has a long lifespan. If the sales are there, I'm not sure why it matters who is purchasing the game, serious or casual fans, male or female gamers. I also have no idea what this has to do with voice acting... |
I noticed that Oyvoyvoyvoyvoyvoyvoy has a tendecy to go on tangents that don't really make sense.
That said, I think Twilight Princess has a very real chance of surpassing OoT sales (with GCN and Wii versions combined) its legs are pretty insane. I guess the only thing that could stop that would be Retro Zelda and Zelda Wii, neither of which will probably come before the end of 2008, but even then I don't see them eating TP's sales too much. Zelda games don't necessarily cannibalize each other.
HYLIAN. Everyone speaks HYLIAN, so they'd better speak in hylian if they have voice acting.
They don't speak Hylian in every game, though.
