| Materia-Blade said: being released early also means less potential buyers at launch. mm 3d will have a 50m base when it launches. |
Adventure of Link, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks, Skyward Sword, and of course the original release of Majora's Mask all had this advantage as well. Shocker, the first Zelda game released on any given console is also its best-selling. On no console has the second or third Zelda release sold more than a previous release on that console, excepting Twilight Princess on GameCube outselling Four Swords Adventures (I think we can agree that was a special case).
(There's another sort-of-exception for the Oracle games outselling Link's Awakening DX... but was that really the first Zelda game for GBC, or was it the second Zelda for GB? Well, it was both. It's weird. Anyway, the Oracles were brand-new games outselling a re-release of a 5-year-old game.)
