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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be the most successful Zelda title combined across all versions.

Yes. 55 88.71%
 
No. 3 4.84%
 
Maybe so. 4 6.45%
 
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curl-6 on 28 April 2018
OTBWY said:
curl-6 said:

Splatoon was a cool and fresh (I'll see myself out) new IP, but it wasn't really ambitious or epic in the way that Breath of the Wild is.

I think it was fairly ambitious, taking on a genre they had only dabbed in a little.

It was daring, but I was talking more in terms of scope and production value.



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S.Peelman on 28 April 2018
contestgamer said:
Not bad, but when counting sales inflation of games compared to the 90's its really closer to being 5 million to OOT's 7.6. Take the best selling game of this gen and compare it to the best selling game of the ps/n64 gen to find the difference then divide BOTW numbers with that difference to get pre inflation sales numbers. Decent but not ground breaking

I'm not sure that's how it works.

It's not like with money, and there already were 10m, 20m, 30m and even a 40m seller in the generations beforehand. In fact, I'd say software sales of the top 5th and 6th gen games are a bit disappointing compared to those of the gens before and after those, but that's a different story altogether.



palou on 28 April 2018
contestgamer said:
Not bad, but when counting sales inflation of games compared to the 90's its really closer to being 5 million to OOT's 7.6. Take the best selling game of this gen and compare it to the best selling game of the ps/n64 gen to find the difference then divide BOTW numbers with that difference to get pre inflation sales numbers. Decent but not ground breaking

Notice that it's barely been a year - both the franchise, and that it's a launch title would lead us to believe that the game should easily sell another 50% over what it's currently at.



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couchmonkey on 28 April 2018
contestgamer said:
Not bad, but when counting sales inflation of games compared to the 90's its really closer to being 5 million to OOT's 7.6. Take the best selling game of this gen and compare it to the best selling game of the ps/n64 gen to find the difference then divide BOTW numbers with that difference to get pre inflation sales numbers. Decent but not ground breaking

Does that make The Legend of Zelda (NES) the king then?



OTBWY on 28 April 2018
contestgamer said:
Not bad, but when counting sales inflation of games compared to the 90's its really closer to being 5 million to OOT's 7.6. Take the best selling game of this gen and compare it to the best selling game of the ps/n64 gen to find the difference then divide BOTW numbers with that difference to get pre inflation sales numbers. Decent but not ground breaking

What?



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Jumpin on 28 April 2018

Ocarina of Time is still the largest overall - but it has seen release across four platforms - and one of those is as part of a compilation with the Master Quest included, another is a heavily marketed remake.



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FarleyMcFirefly on 28 April 2018

Not even close to being one of my favourites, but I am super happy for the title and recognize that this is what the series needed!



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Jumpin on 28 April 2018

Breath of the Wild is the game I have wanted to play ever since I heard about “Zelda 64” back in the mid 1990s. Ocarina if Time turned out great, but failed to meet the expectations I had (which were realistically unreasonable at the time). Breath of the Wild is easily one of my favourite games of all time, my favourite Zelda, and the first worthy Zelda sequel since the N64 - I am not saying WW, TO, and SS were terrible games, but they were definitely well below the bar.



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Pavolink on 28 April 2018
curl-6 said:
VAMatt said:
It is definitely the best Zelda game. I hope it outsells all the rest, so that Nintendo will get the picture and make another one like it.

Agreed, also so that Nintendo gets the message that when they invest in making epic ambitious games it pays off. They played it way too safe from 2012-2016, nearly nothing they released during that time had any real ambition.

I believe for the Wii U both BotW and XenoX were their most ambitious projects. Both are my fav Wii U games alongside Splatoon.



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Pavolink on 28 April 2018
Jumpin said:
Breath of the Wild is the game I have wanted to play ever since I heard about “Zelda 64” back in the mid 1990s. Ocarina if Time turned out great, but failed to meet the expectations I had (which were realistically unreasonable at the time). Breath of the Wild is easily one of my favourite games of all time, my favourite Zelda, and the first worthy Zelda sequel since the N64 - I am not saying WW, TO, and SS were terrible games, but they were definitely well below the bar.

In my case, BotW overworld is how I expected TP's world to be.



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