Will Majora's Mask 3D outsell the original?

[Metallox]

the_dengle said:

Metallox said:

I'm pretty sure that the demand s there, just enough to outsell Ocarina of Time 3D.

I'm tempted to use a laughing gif but I feel like it would be too mean in this instance. There is absolutely no reason to expect MM3D to achieve anything close to OoT3D's sales. Ocarina was practically a launch title, it had the console's full lifetime to sell. The 3DS is halfway out the door by the time MM3D comes out, it's not going to have anything that remotely resembles legs.

Where do you expect those >3.5 million sales to come from? Not from Japan, where gamers likely don't give a single damn about Majora's Mask (its apparent resurgence in popularity is a Western phenomenon). And yet certainly not from the West, where gamers don't give a single damn about the 3DS.

I should remind you that a brand new Zelda game has been released on the 3DS since Ocarina, and its sales are nothing to write home about. You are expecting Majora's Mask to outperform both of these games. Based on what? By all accounts, I expect Majora's Mask to sell worse than either of them.

Here's a lifetime sales prediction from yours truly: Japan -- 400k; USA -- 900k; Europe -- 600k. Perhaps 2 million globally when all is said and done.

 

It would have been the Bender one from Futurama. "Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder."

Based on all the popularity that has been getting all these years. A Link Between Worlds wasn't that expected, I mean, not even me was that interested in it, as a huge Zelda fan. I don't know, but I truly feel it could manage to get those numbers. Of course, I can be wrong and I don't deny it, but meanwhile, I say it can.