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super_etecoon on 17 August 2019
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curl-6 said:
super_etecoon said:

Is this a true statement?  Here on VGC?  I find that hard to believe, to be honest.  The Switch was made successful on the back of BOTW and anyone suggesting otherwise is trolling, being sarcastic, or just arrived to VGC from a far off land where opinions are valued more than facts.

But seriously, do you have a link to the comment?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9031327

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9031844

Wow...thanks for grabbing those.

That is beyond fanboyism and cherry picking.  Whether any title is available on any system, if it causes people to buy that system en masse it is by definition a killer app.  There is just no way that Zelda BOTW WiiU would have moved that many WiiU systems and therefore it wouldn't be in this list.  It's frustrating to discuss concepts with users who can't acknowledge the success of other systems and those consoles' reasons for being successful.  I do think BOTW on the WiiU may have had a chance to get near the top 3 of titles on the WiiU, but it would have been the worst decision in the company's history if they didn't release it day and date with the launch of the Switch.  Outside of BOTW we had Snipperclips.  The launch of the Switch was a dark time really, if you exclude BOTW.  So all of the success of every title post BOTW on Switch owes a debt to Zelda.  People would not have waited 8 months for Odyssey to come out before declaring the Switch DOA and another example of Nintendo's failed philosophy of market disruption.  And in the game of console sales, hype and product perception are king.