Surprisingly, the remake of widely popular classic game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 3DS has not started off with the best sales this week in the United Kingdom. Instead the title has been defeated to the number one spot in the UK chart by none other than Zumba Fitness, which saw a massive surge in sales presumably due to an agressive marketing campaign on British television. As sales of casual games are ever on the rise, this begs the question: What does this mean for gaming?
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You forgot one and it's a doozy. The weapon is kindness in undertale. :) defeats countless enemies.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..
I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time debuted 25 years ago, forever changing the face of video games and becoming a legend of its own.
I used a guide to beat part of it but some of the rest myself, still enjoyed it regardless. Too bad they didn't stick with this kind of gameplay for the rest of the series as I would prefer it over what they're doing now.
A definitive moment in video game history. Played it countless times, and Zelda was the best reason to own an N64.
I played through OoT so many times on the 64, then I bought it on the 3DS before the Eshop shut down. I wish we could have a Zelda collection like we did for Mario, I still can't believe that never happened.
It's a little suprising... I understand that the New Zelda is aiming to get a whole new generation into what is the best of the series. However, the 3DS isnt selling so greatly, which may be causing some slumps in game sales.
As for hardcore games... they're still going strong, its just that developers whant to grab that 'non-gamer' and they'll do it with whatever crap they think people like that want/will be fooled into buying.
whats the point with staying with a console that's going casual?
its actually not all that suprising considering nintendo limited the stock of the game in the beginning like they said they would.
And the game just came out yesterday so how does this blogger no what sales are? when they havent been posted by anyone else?
Sounds like bullshit
Zelda had what, 2 days to get its sales. Zumba had a week. If it happens after a full week of Zelda sales then we should have these articles, not after 2 days.
The game has only been out since firday so ide expect it to be on top next week but the biggest difftence this gen to all the other gens is that gamers are buying less game than then gens before because Online play is keeping the game life going. If you look at last gen or the gen before online was not as big as it is now and people would buy a game complete it and then buy a new game and so on. When I look at this gen Kids are buying COD and playing cod day in day out and not really moving to new games.
I remember when MoH came out and I got it on day one but most people I know said they were not getting it because they wanted cod to play online yet last gen 70% of gamers would of got both games.
This is why alot of studios have closed down this gen because they have found it hard to get new IP's into the Market Like Split/Second, Alan Wake ect if its not Halo, COD, Gears, ect people dont want to know.
To me its sad because there are some amazing games out there but most people dont get to play them because all they want to do is play the same game over and over again until the next one of it is out.
This is the reason why we are on Geas 3 KZ3 Resistance 3 Forza 4 GT5 UC3 because the studios know these games sell and make them money and we see less and less new IP's. the new IP's we tend to see are none core games like fitness ect because they can make money from them with out the big price tag and in many ways they have kept some studios from going under.
This is part of the reason why Sony and MS are not showing off a new console at the moment and why they have said there wont be a massive leep next gen in terms of console power.