Topic: What happend to this Zelda game?

This footage was shown at Spaceworld back in 2000 where the GameCube was unveiled... wonder what happend to this Zelda Version...

It was a tech demo only to show off the power of the Gamecube and nothing more.

That wasn't a game, it was a tech demo.

That was the reason people were disappointed when they saw what Wind Waker looked like.

Didn't know that ... It looks a lot like TP to me... and the battle ... just Ganondorf and Link ... in a small room ... no tricks, just the swords - seems really really cool to me!

Still looks pretty good in 2009 if you ask me.

I know, i remember getting super psyched for GC because that was on the interwebz. Sort of sad it never turned into a real game.

If they'd released something like that instead of the toony WW it would've sold far better. They say that TP saved the series after declining sales.

Oracle of Ages/Seasons: 7.92 million
Ocarina of Time: 7.6 million
Legend of Zelda: 6.51 million
Link's Awakening: 6.05 million
Twlight Princess: 5.84 million
A Link to the Past: 4.61 million
Zelda II: 4.38 million
Phantom Hourglass: 4.13 million
Majora's Mask: 3.36 million
Wind Waker: 3.07 million
Four Swords Adventures: 225,000

@StarFox

I don't believe the lower sales of Wind Waker compared to TP had anything to do with the games themselves. The latter was a launch title for an enormously successful platform with a ton of hype. I actually believe WW would have sold much more than TP if it were first released on the Wii as a motion-enabled launch title.

Really? Oracle of Ages/Seasons is the best-selling Zelda title? I don't know anyone who played Oracle of Ages/Seasons.

It certainly saved the series from innovation.

You speak as if everyone was disappointed. I loved the look and feel of the Wind Waker. It is a masterpiece. Famitsu gave it 40/40.

Wind Wakers art direction is up there with the very best games of all time.

I have them both, great games, highly recommend them.

I may be wrong, but didn't this become Twilight Princess? I seem to remember hearing somewhere that TP was ~9 years in development.

What's wrong with the new ones sure it's easier then before but even i admit i prefer Toon Link over Link. Besides it's not about the graphics it's about gameplay. You just have issue.

Man why did FSA only sell 220ish k? I heartily enjoyed that game.

Cool.

@grenworthshero: if you combine the sales of both, it's a total of almost 8 million.

@Swerd, probably because the best part of FSA was the multiplayer, and you have to shell out enormous craploads of cash in order to enable 4-players, because Ninty wanted to make money and thus chose to have each successive player hook up a GBA instead of a GC pad. and the single player game (while good, yes) was almost a straight rip-off of LttP. the multiplayer was the focus of that game with the single player a side note, and nobody used the multiplayer. it was also a big departure from the open, adventure filled world everybody loved about zelda games, what with the level system, and all. again, not a bad game, but it's not all that.

I recommend the oracle series as well.