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Nintendo sales - Zelda: 3.84 million, Pokémon S&M: 15.44 million, Kirby: 1.36 million
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Yes
But on the other hand I think a triple A Metroid FPA game, now in HD!, would sell way beyond that.
Nintendo just got to see the light on why the Wii was the wrong place for more of those and why sales slowed down.
one thing that is in Zelda's favor this time around, compared to twilight Princess, is that by now gamers of all styles and ages know that the "next-gen visuals" bubble bursted a while ago and that games not looking "next-gen" are ok and worthy. It took a while but we are already there. Plenty of popular, good selling stuff (GTA comes to mind) is cross.gen, many look and feel like mildly up-res'd PS3 games.
people are now more open to a game that at it's core is a WiiU game than people were towards TP, which launched together with Gears of War on 360 and Resistence on PS3, which looked worlds apart from games on the prior generation.
people are now more open to a game that at it's core is a WiiU game than people were towards TP, which launched together with Gears of War on 360 and Resistence on PS3, which looked worlds apart from games on the prior generation.
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Those points make sense, and I'd say that's a fairly good characterization of Switch's launch and sales so far.
Dark Cloud
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Luigis Mansion Dark Moon is at 5.31 million?! Geez get ready for Luigis Mansion 3 for Switch.
Kirby is pretty popular in Japan. A large chunk of its sales are in that country alone.
Aldric
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ls there any data about other 3DS games? l'd love to see where Kid Icarus: Uprising currently sits. Last numbers we got were a long time ago and l think it was around 1 200 000 copies. l doubt it's much higher now but l'd still like to know.
Great numbers, wonder what the "Zelda steady decline/nobody cares anymore/stop living in the past" crowd will have to say to BotW surpassing SS in a month. Or when inevitably breaks 10m copies sold.
I bought the limited
That game is a wonderful success story.
Herb Alpert
Banned
They will bring a graph and say that BOTW was the exception, look at the general tendency, yada yada
10m seems A LOT though. Not sure it can reach that, but I sure would like it does.
-Mutsukki-
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There we go, the first one in the thread
The best I know is Celine's thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=963700
wow, in the past year Luigi's Mansion has sold 500,000
I mean, if Switch drops just like the Wii U despite Mario Kart, Zelda, Splatoon 2 and Mario Odyssey... Nintendo might as well give up at that point.
Herb Alpert
Banned
You are joking, right?
Nobody cared about the WiiU, the awareness was low as fuck, people didn't even know if it was a new console.
No sorry, I missed the sarcasm.
SatoAilDarko
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Mario Party 10 selling 2 million is the most surprising thing.
Still so powerful.
Still so powerful.
-Mutsukki-
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You underestimate Kirby's popularity and Metroid's... lack of. One of these is only popular in one territory while the other is popular around the globe.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Nintendo should produce a YouTube channel with just Mario Party Games being played. Monetize the heck out of it. Easy ¥¥¥¥. Just look at those views.
https://youtu.be/ILJmufDh-Mg
-Mutsukki-
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MrCookiepants
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BotW will easily be the best selling Zelda ever. Already outsold Skyward Sword and Link Between Worlds.
Charles Brandon
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Whilst Metroid has never been a huge seller (in relative terms), I think, with the right game and the right marketing it could become one. It's clearly a quality series and is the closet IP that Nintendo has to AAA games on the other consoles. It's not so different from Halo in terms of tone. I think a good multiplayer mode is the key here. Nintendo has the FPS chops now but Splatoon isn't for everyone, they can put that experience to use in Metroid MP, give dudebros something they can play online without feeling silly and bring back that "Goldeneye" local multiplayer feeling. All on the back of a typically fantastic single player experience (possibly running on a version of the BOTW engine).
foxuzamaki
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We have to push it for summerslam
It effectively is.It would be if it was yearly
Game Freak releases a new title every year, for three years, then takes a year break.
AcademicSaucer
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Lol
Aaron Strife
Banned
Another L for the "Pokemon is a fad" chorus.
-Mutsukki-
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I'd actually argue that Splatoon's succes is attributed to the fact that it is, indeed, for everyone. I love Metroid, I'd love a return, but I don't think it being multiplayer focused would even scratch the surface to generate interest in it.
foxuzamaki
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next time for sure
Bruno MB
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Very impressive The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sales. It had an even greater launch than The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
It has also surpassed by now The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which had shipped 3.99 million units as of December 2014.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo Switch - 2.76 million
Nintendo Wii U - 1.08 million
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Nintendo Wii - 2.47 million
GameCube < 1 million
It has also surpassed by now The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which had shipped 3.99 million units as of December 2014.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo Switch - 2.76 million
Nintendo Wii U - 1.08 million
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Nintendo Wii - 2.47 million
GameCube < 1 million
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Fun fact: at one point the Pokémon article on Wikipedia was simultaneously in the categories "Fads of the 1990s", "Fads of the 2000s", and "Fads of the 2010s".
Aldric
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Maybe if Nintendo made actual Metroid games like they do with Kirby instead of bizarre experiments no one asked for Metroid would sell better?
Thx.
No there wasn't. There was hardly any buzz and enthousiasm, and it showed as Wii U sales took a deep decline after the first few launch weeks, while Switch keeps selling it's shipments week after week and consumers AND developers seem to be very excited about both the concept, the hardware and it's potential.
Switch is very likely to outsell the Wii U LTD in it's first year on the market.
(3D) Metroid games cost a lot more to make though.
Kirby has been Nintendo most experimental series...
AcademicSaucer
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The dlc will help, they can also release a complete version down the line
I think it can do it. It's important to remember that Zelda is still supply constrained- on the Wii U because nobody owns one, and on the Switch because few people own it yet. In that context these numbers are insane, because they look like normal frontloaded sales. But this obviously isn't a situation where a game is releasing on a console with 60 million plus sales and everyone who wants it can buy it immediately. BotW is going to keep selling for the lifetime of the Switch, and it will also get a nice holiday bump this year with the DLC. Obviously it won't keep its current ridiculous tie ratio, but it doesn't need to. If the Switch is at least a 3DS-level success, and that's looking quite possible, I think Zelda breaks 10 million units sold.
Charles Brandon
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It really isn't for everyone. It sold well, in Japan particularly, but there the FIFA/COD crew are not going to play it in large numbers even if they do buy a Switch purely because of the aesthetics.
Personally, as an FPS, I found it to be pretty poor in any case but I recognise that my opinion is not shared by many.
Kids. They search for Mario or the YouTube algorithm takes them there from some toy or Skylanders video.
I've been saying this for a long time. Nintendo could make super easy money here if they decided to produce an entire official Nintendo Let's Play channel. That would mean war with all the Youtubers though.
While I agree that it can get there, the situation you are describing is EXACTLY like Twilight Princess - which was both on the sold-out Wii and the gamecube.
I'd say the DLC, the new open world gameplay and the way BotW seems to connect o todays social media audience is what gives it a higher potential, not the launch situation.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Did my part
Part of me wants to pick up a Wii U copy for the hell of it, but another part of me does not want to spend $60 more on an inferior version I may never play when I already bought the most expensive version of the game, lol. I kind of want it for Cemu, some day years from now when I can actually afford a not-shit computer, but yeah, years away hahah. Probably won't get too many more copies printed either, all things considered... Ugh.
Yep, and no doubt, a remaster on future Nintendo hardware.