mgs2master2
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i see i see.
Regardless though, I can see Ganon/Ganondorf basically being the Lu Bu of the game. Showing up randomly, overpowered to the max, killing and destroying everything, and leave if not defeated within a certain time.
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Tecmo Koei expects 1 million sales from Hyrule Warriors
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i see i see.
Regardless though, I can see Ganon/Ganondorf basically being the Lu Bu of the game. Showing up randomly, overpowered to the max, killing and destroying everything, and leave if not defeated within a certain time.
unholyrevenger72
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well i hope they expect to be disappointed as well.
Smiles and Cries
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Starwolf_UK
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Different circumstances, this was a budget release with a perihperal. This on the other hand is full priced. At least it isn't a 10 year old game with 6 months development time this time.
mgs2master2
Banned
Still want him playable
Lu Bu always been playable (either from the get go, or unlocked). I can only imagine ganon going the same route.
Smiles and Cries
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good to know, cannot wait
As for the 1m sales people are really allowing poor WiiU sales to blind them in saying this is a harder goal than it actually is.
Rhazer Fusion
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SkyMasterson
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It has Zelda in the title, so I have to imagine it will sell a decent amount.
Of course the obvious problem is the WiiU install base. THough by the time it comes out later this year, who knows. Hopefully MK8 and a solid E3 helps the WiiU pick up some steam.
Of course the obvious problem is the WiiU install base. THough by the time it comes out later this year, who knows. Hopefully MK8 and a solid E3 helps the WiiU pick up some steam.
Smiles and Cries
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it also depends on what comes out during the release of this.
I am going to buy it but if Bayonetta 2 is out the same week it might not get any play time from me for a while
You brought up a good point by making a mistake, I Does NOT have Zelda in the title
I am going to buy it but if Bayonetta 2 is out the same week it might not get any play time from me for a while
You brought up a good point by making a mistake, I Does NOT have Zelda in the title
How much did Skyward Sword sell?
It's called Zelda Musou in Japan, will probably be called something like Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, or "The Hyrule Warriors of Zelda" elsewhere or something.You brought up a good point by making a mistake, I Does NOT have Zelda in the title
I'm looking forward to it, don't know if it will sell a million, but it might come close.
Village_Idiot
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3.69 million on a console with a much larger install base.
Wind Waker HD did 1.22 million, considering if this game will be release while Wii U has a good momentum, 1 million LTD should be doable as Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta 2 increase the userbase, at least for Japan, we still don't have a release window for US/EU.
Wikipedia says that it sold 3.69 million as of September 2013, but the sources that it refers to list its sales numbers as 3.41 million as of December 2011. I find it difficult to believe that it only sold 280k copies in the following 2 years. Do you have a source that can verify this number?
sturgboski
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But Wind Waker HD is a more traditional Zelda game AND I think it was a pack in plus at a lower price point (could be wrong on this). This game is a musou game. How well do they do across multiple systems? Now distill it down to one system and reskin it for Zelda. Are the people who bought Wind Waker HD all going to run out and buy this game? A 1 in 6 attach rate is a pretty tall order for something like this.
For that matter are people going to buy a Wii U for this game? I imagine a large group of potential customers don't even have the system.
There isn't a source for that number.
Nintendo never released how much more it sold over 3.41m. That is the final figure we have even though it's fairly obvious it probably sold more. At a guess i'd say it's at least over 3.8m shipped.
I edited the Wikipedia article to reflect the old number.
How does 3.41m in its first 2 months compare to other Zelda games?
MoogleWizard
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After the real Zelda gets revealed at E3 everyone will forget this exists. I'm a huge Zelda fan but I'm not going to buy this, I tried one of the Dynasty Warriors (same franchise, right?) demos on PSN and it was a terribad, clunky mess.
Ooor...We'll be so hyped for Zelda Wii U that we'll grab anything we can get to keep our hype at bay. I know when TP was announced I went around and bought the rest of the series to prepare for the next entry.
If the Zelda U looks amazing, Hyrule Warriors can help us keep busy while we wait.
CrimsonCommie
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Where are your sources?
he is the sources.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
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Aaron Strife
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Also needed a peripheral to play and came out when no one gave a shit about the Wii
Twilight Princess is one of the best-selling titles in the series, if you combine the GC/Wii sales it's only behind Ocarina of Time.
In fact it sold 1.3 million copies on the Gamecube, a console that no one ever gave a shit about and it came out after the Wii version.
I think Hyrule Warriors will be fine
Kagoshima_Luke
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Well, I'll be buying it when it comes out, so I can clearly deduce based on that metric that they will sell at least 1.3 million units.
Is that dedicated Musou fanbase also part of the Nintendo install base? I'm sure there is some overlap in that venn diagram, but I'm skeptical how big of an overlap that is.
It would be sad if it could not attain at least a 10% attach rate to all consoles in the wild and I wouldn't be surprised if it went as high as 15%. Going much above that though doesn't seem very likely to me.
NeonZ
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You actually need to combine Ocarina of Time N64 and 3DS to beat combined Twilight Princess sales.
Some people think musou games are all the same, but I felt there are some tiers to the series there.
FOTN - Shit Tier,
Sengoku Musou, Dynasty Warrior - Average Tier,
Orochi - God Tier.
Honestly, I'm excited to see how Nintendo's Gentle Guiding Hand will touch on this Musou entry.
You are forgetting about the Gundam and One Piece games, and even though I'm not a OP fan, but both series are "God Tier" as you classify them.
ScriptedReality
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I know I'm buying a Wii u for it
Throw in some empire strategy layer before the hack and slash, with good cutscenes for plot development and give it the feel of a season on HBO and that would sell well. Allow for different plotlines/start points and it would be a pretty solid title all around I think. Released on the WiiU though, at a minimum it would shatter the "for kids" mental image on the console if it stayed close to the source material(s). No idea on how it would drive folks to adopting the console as a whole.
The 360 game that came out prior though might sour views in regard to a new one being released though.
Couldn't you replace "zelda fans" with "nintendo fans" and replace Zelda with Mario and achieve the stereotypical outlook on Nintendo's approach to their franchises/consoles in the past few years?
There isn't a big Warriors fanbase on Nintendo. If you read my post below you'll see that Samurai Warriors 3 and all of KOEI's other Wii/Wii U titles kind of flopped compared to the PS3 and PS2 releases which is where the majority of the fanbase is.
It'll be the Zelda name and the marketing power of Nintendo/word of mouth/hype that sells this game.
Similar how the "Pokemon" side of Pokemon X Nobunaga's Ambition sold the game in the west. Ask people in the west why they bought Pokemon Conquest and the reason is Pokemon and not because of some 1980's Japanese simulation game about the sengoku era. The same will happen here, whilst a small number of people will buy the game for the Warriors aspect, the majority of people will buy it because it's a Zelda action game. Whether that = 1 million sales will remain to be seen.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=112396822&postcount=180
B-tier? You're aiming high if B is what you're going with.
What? Nintendo isn't great at marketing (especially this gen), but where do you get this nonsense from?
I wrote that before I got to your post. ^_^;
Useful information though. I didn't read the 2012 npd stuff, nor can I find anything other than the prediction threads for a frame of reference. I know pokemon is huge and can do better than Zelda and that is a contributing factor for their comparison. How much, seems hard for me to relate to though.
LegendofLex
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To be fair, a huge install base is never a guarantee that something will sell well. Smash Bros. Brawl only sold marginally better than Melee, for example. Factor in a pretty large quality/appeal gap and the TP --> SS decline was actually pretty expected.
ThatRandomCliff
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How quickly are they hoping that it will reach 1 million? A month? A year?
Over the course of a few years? It's very possible to happen during the life time of the Wii U, but not in month. Tecmo Koei, you setting your self up for disappointment if your expecting it to reach that in a month.
Over the course of a few years? It's very possible to happen during the life time of the Wii U, but not in month. Tecmo Koei, you setting your self up for disappointment if your expecting it to reach that in a month.
foxuzamaki
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I think they would know a bit more about the sales of the game over a period oftime then you.