One of Nintendo's greatest failures in the DS/Wii era was forcing motion and touch controls as the only option. I was not able to get into Skyward Sword, Spirit Tracks or Phantom Hourglass at all because I was forced into motion controls or stylus use - though in the latter, Nintendo was at least smart enough to understand that left handed people exist.
I'd say BOTW is a massively superior game to all of those. But, it very deliberately detached itself from traditional Zelda games. That, obviously, means it won't appeal to all fans. The sales figures argue strongly that BOTW has appealed to far more new fans than it lost. That said, hopefully after BOTW2 comes out, they work on a classic style Zelda as well. There's definitely still a market for those games.
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