Francokid1
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A demo of Zelda U will be included with every copy of Hyrule Warriors. Believe.
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Tecmo Koei expects 1 million sales from Hyrule Warriors
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Well, Koei whored themselves out before with HnK, Gundam and Onepiece, so whats a Zelda in the great scheme of things?.
Reads like a troll post but is exactly how I feel.
So franchises you don't like are "garbage-tier". Gotcha.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Kinda in the same boat, though I have bought a single Dynasty Warriors game and that was Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
Which I only bought because I needed a Gundam game.
If the Zelda fanbase was anything like the MGS fanbase this would totally work.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
I reserve judgement until I see newer footage. If it's good it will sell. The early stuff they showed looked pretty damn rough though.
KojiKnight
Member
If they did, 1 million would be very conservative.
CastorTroy
Member
Wind Waker HD sold a million copies, and that's not counting the Wii U hardware bundle. Certainly feasible, I think.
Personally, I know lots of casual gamer friends who were super wowed by the Hyrule Warriors trailer.
Personally, I know lots of casual gamer friends who were super wowed by the Hyrule Warriors trailer.
SwiftDeath
Member
Possible but seems far too niche imo. Depends how good the final product is I suppose
Burning Justice
the superior princess
Yeah, I don't see how this is outside the realm of possibility at all.
Wait, the 1.12 million number didn't include the bundle?
Yeah, Nintendo should fund that game...
It could do, we don't know the final title yet.
Linkstrikesback
Member
I'm pretty sure it did include the bundle.
Unless, you know, Nintendo Land has sold 3.09million copies without including copies bundled with Premium Wii Us. Which sounds a little far fetched to me.
bobawesome
Member
It'll only sell that high because of desperation on the part of Wii U owners. I haven't touched the thing since beating Super Mario 3D World and won't have a reason to for the foreseeable future.
I think you're getting the Wii U confused with the Xbox One mate.
On topic I reckon it'll do over 1m.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
lol
Is Nintendo really funding the game? Yes it's a second party game but Nintendo might only be providing license and publishing. I don't think Koei needs any money to develop this game, this isn't a Bayo 2 situation. Nintendo published many Musou games in the past without funding them. I believe it's Koei who decided to use LoZ setting.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Yea. Sad right?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Marketing genius.
Mysterious
Banned
It likely did.
"Whoring the brand."
Every time. I wonder if these are the same people who probably haven't played a Musou title since DW2 and claim to know all they need to about the series.
Reads like that thread that one moron made about Musou when he had no idea what he was talking about.
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A Zelda themed game selling over a million? Hell if Link's Crossbow Training can sell more than two million within months of it's release frame, than I can easily see this making a million. It's a realistic sales goal.
Shikamaru Ninja
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If you are publishing a game, then you are either funding its development or a establishing a purchase price for the publishing rights. In either case, Nintendo never publishes a game without being involved in the production. Especially its own IP.
Only exception is when they act as a distributor like for Ninja Gaiden 3.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Sounds like a personal problem.
I've yet to have a period since like September where there's nothing to play.
Yup.
Sales are for Japan only with worldwide in brackets. Sales also include repeat copies. (e.g BEST edition). Sales for some games are shipped. Portable/PC versions are excluded. Just console sales shown here.
Dynasty Warriors Series
Dynasty Warriors 2 - 340,000 (Over 0.8m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 3 - 1,100,000 (Over 2m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 4 - 1,250,000 (Over 2m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 5 - 950,000 (Over 1.5m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 6 - 480,000 (Over 1.0m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 7 - 495,000 (Over 1.0m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors 8 - 400,000
Samurai Warriors Series
Samurai Warriors 1 - 1,060,000 (Over 1.5m worldwide)
Samurai Warriors 2 - 600,000
Samurai Warriors 3 - 320,000
Samurai Warriors 3Z-350,000
Samurai Warriors 4 - 340,000 (Inc PSV version)
Warriors Orochi Series
Warriors Orochi 1 - 670,000 (Over 1.5m worldwide inc portable/PC)
Warriors Orochi 2 - 460,000
Warriors Orochi Z - 275,000
Warriors Orochi 3 - 430,000
WO3: Ult/hyper - 250,000 Inc PS3/PSV/Wii U
One Piece Pirate Musou
One Piece Pirate Musou 1 - 860,000 (Over 1.2m worldwide)
One Piece Pirate Musou 2 - 565,000
Fist of the North Star Series
Fist of the North Star 1 - 660,000
Fist of the North Star 2 - 350,000
Dynasty Warriors Gundam series
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 1 - 660,000 (Inc PS2 sales) (Over 1.0m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 - 675,000 (Inc PS2 sales) (Over 1.4m worldwide)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 - 420,000 (No PS2 version)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam R - ~350,000 (inc PSV version)
Wii/Wii U game sales for Japan
Samurai Warriors Katana - 35,000 (Wii)
Samurai Warriors 3 - 320,000 (Wii)
Samurai Warriors 3Z- 80,000 (Wii)
Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper - 35,000 (Wii U)
Fist of the North Star 2 (over 20k ish)
Skyward Sword - 380k+ (3.42m worldwide)
Wind Waker HD- 90k+ (1.22m worldwide)
My thoughts, well KOEI have never done exceptionally well with Musou games on Wii or Wii U. Wii U in particular has been terrible in Japan for KOEI.
So I think they'll be relying on the Zelda name in Japan and both the west to sell the game on Wii U where there isn't a huge warriors fanbase. Just look at Samurai Warriors 3 for example. On Wii it sold 280k with the re- release selling a further 40k to get to 320k. The PS3 re-release sold 350k which was 20k more than the original Wii version. So like I said, musou struggles on Nintendo hardware and always has.
Zelda is going to sell this game. 1 million is not unachievable based on Legend of Zelda sales on Nintendo platforms. But it's not going to be easy. Nintendo need to market this in the west a lot.
I'm a diehard Zelda fan but I really don't think I'll be buying Hyrule Warriors unless it's something truly amazing. The Dynasty Warriors is a great franchise but it's just not for me. I really wish Nintendo well with this endeavor. I wish even more that they moved the Zelda franchise into a genre I enjoy like RTS. That would have been awesome.
Walter Matthau
Gold Member
Aiming = expects?
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Anything on the Gundam Musou series?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Misleading thread titles is part of gaf's charm.
Beermeister
Banned
Not going to happen.
Updated the original post.
Why not? Link's Crossbow Training sold like 10 million or so.
TigerUppercut
Member
I'm gonna buy a Wii U for this game so they've only got 999,999 left to go.
A million is ambitious. Zelda fans like Zelda games and this isn't a Zelda game, it's a Musou game with a Zelda skin. Musou fans might buy it if it's really good, but they don't own Wii U's, and they have plenty of real Musous to keep them busy on the Playstation.
Other hurdles include the footage they've released so far -- which was hot garbage -- and the likely lack of marketing. I just don't see this selling better than something like WWHD.
Other hurdles include the footage they've released so far -- which was hot garbage -- and the likely lack of marketing. I just don't see this selling better than something like WWHD.
I'm sure they would be happy if it sold like WWHD lol.
CrimsonCommie
Member
How would selling a million copies make it the second best selling game on the console?
I have too many sources to list of all of them here haha.
Game sales are from a mixture of Famitsu, Media Create, Dengeki, official KOEI shipment figures, various sales reports + what Koei have told me
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
300k in the US is what the poster is talking about.
Games that have sold 300k+ in the US on WiiU:
SM3D world
WWHD (bundled)
Its definitely not going to do 300k in JP. Skyward Sword just about sold 300k and Warriors O3 did like 30k.
EU is WiiU's weakest market so its not going to make up sales there either.
CrimsonCommie
Member
I find it kinda hard to believe without sources that NSMBU and Nintendo Land haven't sold that many.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Oh sorry NSMBU is up there and of course Nintendo Land is after its bundling.