LoZ MM 3D Debut's Around 350k (US) and 220k (Europe) Higher than ALBW! Also Europe 110k for MH4U (Twice MH3U debut!)

[DanneSandin]

Hiku said:

DanneSandin said:

Curmudgeon said:

Just curious, but why do you expect MM have a steep decline compared to ALBW?

(btw, I'm not saying it will definately beat ALBW anything)

I dont actually know how steep a decline ALBW had, but in two weeks still game will drop of fairly quickly Id guess. The Zelda faithfuls will by then have bought the game, as will the early N3DS adaptors. I can see MM selling roughly 2-3m all in all, but never to catch up to ALBW

That didn't answer his question though. You basically just repeated what you said earlier. He asked why you think MM will sell worse than ALBW. (Which would be an effect of having a steeper decline, since that is what your assumption is.)

What he asked was why I thought MM would have a steep decline compared to ALBW, and I gave my reasoning: the hype will die off when the hardcore fans have gotten thier copies. Granted, the game will most certainly still sell quite well after the first few weeks.

as for why I think MM will sell less than ALBW: VERY few remakes manages to even come close to the original game - Super Mario 64 DS is the only one I can remember right now. Most remakes sell about half of the original games sales. MM sits at around 3.6m I think, so half of that would be 1.8m. OoT3D sits at 3.5m or something, while the original is at 7.6m - so about half.

We have to remember that MM is the darling amongst Zelda fans, not so amongst most other gamers, thats why the sales are so high now and while it wont reach ALBW sales.