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BotW (Switch) will sell....

25mil+ 14 20.90%
 
23mil-25mil 11 16.42%
 
21mil-23mil 16 23.88%
 
20mil-21mil 10 14.93%
 
19mil-20mil 10 14.93%
 
18mil-19mil 2 2.99%
 
Under 18mil 4 5.97%
 
Total:67

As Title says what is BotW going to cap at Lifetime? Game has one of the most impressive legs in gaming history (certainly the best ever for a launch title if wii sports dont count lol)

Game in its 11 quarter shipped over 900k and no signs of stopping. Of course there is the sequel which is most likely going to hit holiday of 2020 but the legs arent stopping... Are we looking at 20mil? Less? Much more? Post your predictions from this point on...

Game is around 1.8mil on wiiu with the sku of switch being over 14.5mil+ (16mil+ now)

And Go.......

Thanks to Rol

Q1 2017: 2.76m/2.76m
Q2 2017: 1.16m/3.92m
Q3 2017: 0.78m/4.70m
Q4 2017: 2.00m/6.70m
Q1 2018: 1.78m/8.48m
Q2 2018: 0.84m/9.32m
Q3 2018: 0.96m/10.28m
Q4 2018: 1.40m/11.68m
Q1 2019: 1.09m/12.77m
Q2 2019: 0.84m/13.61m
Q3 2019: 0.93m/14.54m

Last edited by tbone51 - on 02 November 2019

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23-25 million.



My guess is around 22m as at this point it's only going to stop selling once the sequel is out.



Ballpark of 25M I think for NSW version. It's trending to be at around 20M by the holidays next year and this is at a $60 MSRP (in the US Walmart/Amazon have been selling at $50 for the last 6 months or so but in JP I think its one of the higher priced NSW titles). A discounted "Nintendo Selects" (or whatever the NSW equivalent may be) version down the line is going to help as well.  I don't think the sequel is really going to affect its legs negatively - OTOH it just brings the spotlight back around once its releases.

The real big deal is that it is a single-player game with no online features legging out like this. That just doesn't happen - Skyrim is the only other performer like this in recent years and its legs are boosted by 4 different releases (OG/HD/VR/NSW). All other monster leggy sellers have major multiplayer/online/both functionality (Wii Sports/MK Series/GTAV/Minecraft/PUBG).

Nintendo's captured this phenomena twice before (huge leggy SP run) - SMB in the 80s and Pokemon RGBY in the 90s.  Only fitting that their #3 finally get its moment as well - the difference being that those games basically started the franchises, whereas Zelda's having its moment 3 decades later (though of course Mario was a thing prior to SMB).

As long as they hit the right cues with BOTW2 marketing, I think that is going to have a massive Pokemon/SSBU level launch.  BOTW's legs are essentially the result of best/near-best of all time WOM - exactly the kind of thing that carries over into a sequel's opening.

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RolStoppable said:
Shipments of the Switch version by calendar quarter:

Q1 2017: 2.76m/2.76m
Q2 2017: 1.16m/3.92m
Q3 2017: 0.78m/4.70m
Q4 2017: 2.00m/6.70m
Q1 2018: 1.78m/8.48m
Q2 2018: 0.84m/9.32m
Q3 2018: 0.96m/10.28m
Q4 2018: 1.40m/11.68m
Q1 2019: 1.09m/12.77m
Q2 2019: 0.84m/13.61m
Q3 2019: 0.93m/14.54m

It's performing very consistently, so there's a chance that the Switch version alone hits 20m by the end of 2020. If not, it will be close.

I think Breath of the Wild 2 is targeting a late 2020 release, but that won't kill sales of the first game. I predict 25m lifetime for the Switch version of Breath of the Wild. Book it!

Oh thank you. Will add to OP. Was gonna research this but you got it.

I had very similar thinking as well. That would be monstrous. Worse Quarter is 780k, so if it avgerage 780k for the next 5 quarters (two are holiday) that would put the game at around 18.4mil. Of course itll be most likely more but there. 20mil is the floor now.

Wonder what a sequel could do



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Tbh I can see the sequel releasing in 2021 with Prime 4 to fully polish it and put every idea into, 2020 I can see being like a better version of 2018 only with the likes of games like Xenoblade, Tokyo Mirage, Bayo3 and Animal Crossing. This would give BOTW even longer to maintain its current momentum.



These predictions will be shattered if they announce a $90 bundle of both games. Or if the sequel can have your character and items transferred from the save file of the original.



tbone51 said:

As Title says what is BotW going to cap at Lifetime? Game has one of the most impressive legs in gaming history (certainly the best ever for a launch title if wii sports dont count lol)

Game in its 11 quarter shipped over 900k and no signs of stopping. Of course there is the sequel which is most likely going to hit holiday of 2020 but the legs arent stopping... Are we looking at 20mil? Less? Much more? Post your predictions from this point on...

Game is around 1.8mil on wiiu with the sku of switch being over 14.5mil+ (16mil+ now)

And Go.......

Thanks to Rol

Q1 2017: 2.76m/2.76m
Q2 2017: 1.16m/3.92m
Q3 2017: 0.78m/4.70m
Q4 2017: 2.00m/6.70m
Q1 2018: 1.78m/8.48m
Q2 2018: 0.84m/9.32m
Q3 2018: 0.96m/10.28m
Q4 2018: 1.40m/11.68m
Q1 2019: 1.09m/12.77m
Q2 2019: 0.84m/13.61m
Q3 2019: 0.93m/14.54m

Who cares? BOTW made more money than its developments costs 100000 times over. What's more interesting is what the BOTW team's bonuses look like and how much BOTW2 is going to sell.



OoT - 7.60m
MM - 3.36m
WW - 4.43m
TP - 7.26m
SS - 3.67m
= 26.32m

Fingers crossed it can outsell all the crappy Zeldas combined.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

Pyro as Bill said:

OoT - 7.60m
MM - 3.36m
WW - 4.43m
TP - 7.26m
SS - 3.67m
= 26.32m

Fingers crossed it can outsell all the crappy Zeldas combined.

The fact that it could have a fair shot of outselling all previous 3D Zelda games is... breathtaking. I doubt it'll happen, though, but it'll get somewhere near that, and for a Zelda game that's just astounding. 



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.