NPD in a week, right?I am surprised Nintendo hasn't released any sales numbers about the Switch launch. It has been a month...
I think there is a revisionist view of Twilight Princess going on here. At launch the reception was basically the same as BOTW in enthusiasm. More of "it's an evolution not revolution" praise though.Not early on in the US it wasn't. November + December 2006 for the Wii was just over 1.1M according to old NPD reports. Twilight Princess Wii sold just shy of 950k in the US during that same timeframe. An 86% attach rate.
I think there is a revisionist view of Twilight Princess going on here. At launch the reception was basically the same as BOTW in enthusiasm. More of "it's an evolution not revolution" praise though.
Twilight Princess fucking delivered in the first few months. The love was everywhere. The hate started to flow later.
In contrast, it felt like hype for Skyward Sword collapsed as soon as people actually played the game lol
I have tried to shut my mouth about CEMU stuff, but belief that progress of an emulator will lead to millions of people buying the Wii U game to play on it is... ill-founded.
Have any sales numbers been published for BotW yet?
Nah
Switch has sold like what 3 million?
So 3 million copies of Zelda on Switch + Wii u version probably sold like less than 1 million due to how much they probably undershipped that version.
Even when the Wii u sold like 13 million, it's biggest selling game Mario kart 8 only sold like 8 million units.
Only 8 million? Breaking 8 million in one console is ridiculously hard, of course Wikipedia is not serious at all but if for one second we believe their numbers MK8 would be the fifth best selling title on the PS2, and thats a 150 million console.
I mean people really had no choice when it comes to choosing what to buy for the switch launch... If they had released MK8D, Splatoon and Arms along with this, I can see it not doing as well. Just look at Knack even that sold millions... Right?
kswis, you gonna become the master of videogame stats now as well?
God DAMN at the N64 game outclassing even the Wii sequel. That fact alone makes me think it is definitely possible.
If the Switch remains popular, then it will continue selling.
Unless it becomes a pack in game I doubt it, there won't be enough Switches out there to handle this number while Zelda hype is still going. Same deal with Twilight Princess on the Wii.
Ocarina's "11.42 million" is a pretty irrelevant number, because a huge chunk of that is going to be overlap. So Twilight Princess is going to be the game to look at, as the overlap is going to be pretty slim and the console split is most analogous to Wii U/Switch. Then the question becomes more "Will Breath of the Wild be the best selling Zelda ever", to which I say... maybe? I'm not going to say it's surefire, since ~9 million+ units is a lot no matter who you slice it, but the momentum behind Breath of the Wild seems so much greater than that of Twilight Princess, the game is widely regarded to be one of the best - if not the best of all time (a distinction Twilight Princess didn't quite have even at its highest point), and it seemingly has broader appeal. But then the odds of the Switch reaching Wii levels of success are slim-to-none and it's difficult to tell just how much that massive 100 million unit install base contributed.
Because OoT 3D was a remaster released a decade and a half later and TP Wii and GCN are more or less the same thing beyond input device, with a release date only a month apart. Its a fundamentally different scenario, and neither is a particularly valid comparison with the other.i don't get why people discount OoT's combined sales but not TP's combined numbers. a lot of people double dipped for TP too (i got both versions because GC controls better) and a lot of people who got OoT3D didn't have the original.
it's a fact OoT is the top Zelda game in both single SKU and combined SKU rankings. no amount of spinning can change this. BotW is gonna have the same "issue" if the Switch version alone doesn't top 10 million and only gets there with the Wii U version's sales.
I am surprised Nintendo hasn't released any sales numbers about the Switch launch. It has been a month...
Because OoT 3D was a remaster released a decade and a half later. It's not a valid comparison to lump both versions together. That's like combining Gold and Silver with the DS remakes. It's nonsensical. And while there may have been overlap, you can't honestly believe it's the same. We're talking about two largely similar versions released at the same time versus a full remaster a decade and a half later. You're definitely in the clear minority in the prior scenario.
Just "fastest selling launch game ever" for Nintendo.Do we even have any figures on BotW yet?
Do we even have any figures on BotW yet?
Why does it matter that the Switch isn't at 10 million at this very moment? This is the second or third remark like this in the thread. Like, what does that even mean? No one who buys a Switch in the future will buy Zelda? The last Switch ever has been sold? Wii Sports will never sell 10 million because the Wii sold 3 million in 1.5 months? What? lolNope.
Switch isn't even 10m and while the game will have legs, it depends if the games in the future are better than Zelda. If not then more people will buy Zelda.
I feel like it will depend on if a sequel gets made any time soon. If not, I could see this having a very high attach ratio with the Switch.
Because OoT 3D was a remaster released a decade and a half later and TP Wii and GCN are more or less the same the same beyobd controls, with a release date only a month apart. Its a fundamentally different scenario, and neither is a particularly valid comparison with the other.
Combining OoT with OoT 3D is like combining Gold and Silver with the DS remakes. It's nonsensical. Whereas combining the two versions of TP is like looking at any other multi-platform title. Sure, there's SOME overlap, you can't honestly believe it's the same.
And for what it's worth, I wouldn't include TO HD with TP Wii/GC either, or Wind Waker HD with Wind Waker for that matter.
Why does it matter that the Switch isn't at 10 million at this very moment? This is the second or third remark like this in the thread. Like, what does that even mean? No one who buys a Switch in the future will buy Zelda? The last Switch ever has been sold? Wii Sports will never sell 10 million because the Wii sold 3 million in 1.5 months? What? lol
no version should be combined imo. the grey areas and exceptions that come with the combinations make it messy. you can't exclude some and combine others because at the end of the day, it's the same game at its core and sold based on that. OoT 3D, the HD remasters or the other various ports didn't become magically new games when they were ported.
also, how does Nintendo report TP? do they combine sales together or split them?
for this reason alone, i'd like BotW to beat all past games combined with just the Switch version so that this problem can die off but 11.4 million is a tall order to meet.