Zelda sold 350,000 in USA and 220,000 in Europe...
570,000, with Japan (150,000 my estimate), Rest of NA (35,000), and RoW (50,000): my WW prediction is above 800,000!!!

I think we'll see a pretty steep decline; we're seeing the Zelda hardcore fans going out and buying the game (coupled with new HW), but as soon as that first wave is over, sales are gonna settle down. Like I said; it wont beat ALBW

Just curious, but why do you expect MM have a steep decline compared to ALBW?

(btw, I'm not saying it will definately beat ALBW anything)

I dont actually know how steep a decline ALBW had, but in two weeks still game will drop of fairly quickly Id guess. The Zelda faithfuls will by then have bought the game, as will the early N3DS adaptors. I can see MM selling roughly 2-3m all in all, but never to catch up to ALBW

can we finally put this whole "is 3d Zelda more popular than 2d one " debate to rest? I like them both

It's a shame. I'd much rather have new games than remakes but sales like this will certainly encourage nintendo to keep releasing remakes during dry spells.

Anyone think that it might be because people prefer 3D games over 2D ones? MM just has so much more wow factor; maybe that's why it's won over so many more people.

No, not really. All we have is 1st week sales of Majora's Mask 3D.

One thing to take into consideration are that the 3DS install base at the time of ALBW release was about 35 million, at the time of MM3D the install base is over 50 million.

We need to see how this game legs it out.

What he asked was why I thought MM would have a steep decline compared to ALBW, and I gave my reasoning: the hype will die off when the hardcore fans have gotten thier copies. Granted, the game will most certainly still sell quite well after the first few weeks.

as for why I think MM will sell less than ALBW: VERY few remakes manages to even come close to the original game - Super Mario 64 DS is the only one I can remember right now. Most remakes sell about half of the original games sales. MM sits at around 3.6m I think, so half of that would be 1.8m. OoT3D sits at 3.5m or something, while the original is at 7.6m - so about half.

We have to remember that MM is the darling amongst Zelda fans, not so amongst most other gamers, thats why the sales are so high now and while it wont reach ALBW sales.

Though i cant 100% disagree, ALBW did pretty good. I think its close to 3mil Shipped WW. Looking at other games, its pretty much where it could be in terms of 2D Zelda.

Ironically its the opposite for Mario (2D>3D in sales, Zelda is 3D>2D!)