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Forums - Sales Discussion - US: Zelda BOTW and MK8 managed to chart in the top 20 best-selling games of the decade(physical+digital) without digital sales number

S.Peelman said:
LGBTDBZBBQ said:

TLOU sold more than BOTW currently in unit-based but definitely not in revenue-based. Those free games, discounted, and promotion are definitely inflated those unit numbers. 

BOTW(16.15m units sold) made more money than TLOU(20m units sold)

I think BOTW will take the unit sales number as well at the end.  

And at some others;

The Last of Us’s sales are divided in two releases; an original one, and a remaster. I don’t get why that’s always forgotten for this game and only this game and why it’s somehow privileged to be counted as one. Remasters aren’t the same as a multiplat. Neither release outsold Breath of the Wild so it’s natural given BotW’s position on the chart that neither release made it.

Similarly Mario Kart doesn’t seem to include the WiiU version because the Switch version as a remaster is counted separately. It being just a couple spots above BotW with its 20M or something sales is logical. If it had included the original WiiU game its sales would be nearing 30M and with nearly all those at full price it would have probably put it between the Call of Duties.

Breath of the Wild likely does include the WiiU version since that game is just a regular multiplat with simultaneous releases of exactly the same game across a couple consoles, like every CoD on there. BotW Switch+WiiU also outsells Mario Odyssey if I’m not mistaken which explains why it’s not there.

Also, 7 out of the top 10 are CoD. Lol.

FYI, Remastered and Enchanted port like MK8D and TLOU remastered are counted together with their original release. 

Mariko Kart 8 + Mariko Kart 8 Deluxe = Mario Kart 8

TLOU + TLOU remastered = TLOU

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/npd-sales-results-for-july-2014-up1-3ds-ltds-wii-u-ltds-tomodachi.874988/



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Shadow1980 said:

That list smells fishy. Must be all the COD...

Yeah, those CoD are such a doody



Skyrim is another game without digital number.



LGBTDBZBBQ said:
Skyrim is another game without digital number.

Doesn't need digital numbers if it's on every toaster...



That list would look quite different if each version was on it's own.



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RolStoppable said:
trestres said:
Do MK8 and BotW include their respective WiiU sales?
That might explain their appearance in the list as well.

Yes, Wii U sales are included.

On topic: Ultimately a rather worthless list because of how it has been compiled. Multiplats are combined - yet for some reason NPD still sticks to splitting up Pokémon versions in their charts - and the ranking is based on revenue instead of units. At that point the fact that some games don't have their digital sales included doesn't really matter anymore.

Oh OK, thanks for the info. It's a bad list overall, individual SKUs with digital would be better, or at least have both lists available.



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Call me a hater but that top 10 is just depressing. Almost all of the spots are COD.



Spike0503 said:
Call me a hater but that top 10 is just depressing. Almost all of the spots are COD.

Just because of combined skus.



Spike0503 said:
Call me a hater but that top 10 is just depressing. Almost all of the spots are COD.

America loves their guns



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padib said:
11 COD games over 20, that is really depressing.

It's 10 (one per year) + 2 Battlefields, still depressing.



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