"Well I guess if hardcore Nintendo nuts are the target demographic then what he's saying is true but non-gamers were supposed to be the target when they first debuted the game. "
So, you'd rather they stuck to marketing it towards non-gamers after non-gamers failed to buy it? You can't hit the target every time, you know. At least they're not continuing in a failed effort... if they did that, we both know you'd start comparing it to connectivity and start that crap up all over again, Ian. You have a contingency bitching plan for every single possible outcome of Nintendo's decisions.
So, how about those brain games? I hear they're not being sold online.
"But later he said that they did it because it was the most efficient way to go, which obviously means that it was cost-effective."
No, it means the people they're trying to sell the game to will buy it online. The medium suits the target, hence, more efficiency.
"That's exactly what I don't want. Zelda isn't about swinging a sword. It's about an adventure."
You're right. Swinging swords has no place in adventures. Adventures preclude sword swinging. If there is sword swinging in a game, it is completely safe and valid to assume that that game is not an adventure. At no point in any adventure has sword swinging been involved, hence, making sword swinging more fun and intuitive completely shifts the focus from adventure to sword swinging. Zelda isn't Zelda anymore. Miyamoto no longer knows what he's doing and is content to let Nintendo butcher the Zelda experience into this horrible sword swinging travesty instead. Nintendo is doomed and the REAL Zelda fans are tossed aside in favor of degenerate scum of the earth who actually enjoy crap like swinging a sword. Damn you Nintendo, damn you to hell.
Oh, wait, I'm a Zelda fan and the talk of sword swinging intrigues me. How do I fit into your worldview, Ian? Am I an exception? Because I can think of a number of people who are positively giddy at the thought of sword swinging in Zelda. In fact, I would wager that you're the only exception I've seen or heard of.