marurun wrote:Ocarina did well, but Skyward Sword and Wind Waker did comparatively poorly.
Skyward Sword deserved to sell poorly, as it was the worst in the traditional 3D series and had a lot of questionable design choices.
Wind Waker, as fondly as it is remembered now, was very off putting to the mostly early 20's, mostly male audience that was the majority of the market at the time, with the adoption of the cartoony style. As was the Gamecube itself for that matter, that had a hard time doing away with the 'kiddy' image.
Of course we all know that is bull-crap now (and I knew back then and faced the derision of some of my peers for it), that both Wind Waker was a great game and the Gamecube a great console with a variety of amazing exclusives, but at the time there was a different sentiment that contributed to the lower sales.
I'm not going to go on a long tangent with my issues with Breath of the Wild, though they are not necessarily the usual ones people often have with the game.
But I don't think there's realistically any chance for the series returning to the old style any time soon, nor should it. As much as I loved Ocarina and despite my issues with BotW the old recipe really got stale, especially if you consider it was basically a 3D rendition of a recipe that was already stale in 2D.
But I would hope, at the very least, if we don't get more proper bigger dungeons in the next game, we get more visual variety at least, since all the dungeons look the damn same, and that's a shame.
