Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sales Predictions

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Wyrdness said:

curl-6 said:

So 3DS will not only fail to sell as well as any Nintendo portable except Virtual Boy, it will be the first Nintendo portable, again besides Virtual Boy, to sell less than a non-Nintendo portable.

The chances of BotW reaching 11-13 million sales are remote to the point of silliness. Zelda just isn't that popular a series. Never has been, never will be.

Yet it still will easily make it into the the top 10 selling platforms of all time which is far from a doom and gloom scenario like you try to paint.

As for Zelda, consistenly averaging 4m for over 25 years says otherwise each game has differing individual appeal, TP sold near 9m (which debunks it's never been popular) on two consoles and BOTW has access to an additional userbase previous console installments didn't when they first launched so it's not farfetched of a prediction (especially as BOTW is the most anticipated Zelda game since both OOT and TP) if NS takes off, what's it to you if people predict 10m+?

Actually, it probably won't end up in the top 10; it's #10 now, but it will be knocked out by PS4.

And I never said Zelda's never been popular. Of course it has. But it's 3-8 million popular, not 11-13 million popular.