z101 on 02 October 2013
| UncleScrooge said: I can't believe people are defending those Wind Waker sales. Ocarina of Time 3D did 160k first week - that's a huge drop. I'm a big Zelda fan but these are bad sales, remake or not. 30k is an appropriate opening for a niche game but not one of Nintendo's biggest franchises - this game got pushed and marketed, it was not a silent release. And it didn't push any systems - Nintendo expected this to be a system seller. Tell any gamer from the late 90's that a Zelda game released in Japan, did 30k week one and pushed the hardware to 3.6% market share and they'd laugh at you. |
Wind Waker HD is a remake of a GC game that already had relatively low sales in japan. Never expected the remake has much impact in japan, but I think the western sales will be much better. Perhaps some people in japan waited for the new bundles.
I am curious about the EU sales of Wind Waker. The US retail sales will be heavy crippled by eShop sales, because the eShop version is already out there and a lot of fans will not be able to wait for the retail version ... but we will see some effect on the hardware sales.
