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Zelda
1974 · Film · 77 min
Directed by Alberto Cavallone
Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformations.
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That sounds plausible. Or at least it was part of it, because at least Myst would never have sold anywhere near as many units if it didn't look so impressive (in 1993).
Though there is also the simple fact that pure puzzle games can't compete with puzzle+action games (e.g. Zelda), even if the puzzles are somewhat reduced.
You can see a similar thing in movies: Highly successful Pixar movies are typically comedy+action, because mixing in action beats pure comedy in terms of entertainment.
The trend towards action is also present in other genres: Turn -based strategy games got mostly replaced with real-time strategy games, and turn-based RPGs got replaced with action RPGs where fighting is done in real time.
Because this hardware is for a different experience. Zelda is nice, but the style has its limits. It's kinda like asking why Disney invests hundreds of millions of Dollar into Marvel and Star Wars-Movies, when you can also make a cheaper but polished animation-movie with a fraction of that price. It's simply not the same.