Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sales Predictions

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Wyrdness said:

curl-6 said:

3DS will most likely still be selling when PS4 beats it.

And Twilight Princess shows that even on an install base of over 123 million systems, and with immense hype behind it, the 9 million threshold wasn't breached. 

3DS will have finished it's life by the time PS4 gets to it, PS4 averages 15m a year which means by the end of next year it'll only hit what the 3DS is on now, by then 3DS will likely be around 70m and replaced by Switch.

Thats near 9m after the previous game sold around 5m, that's a 4m gain on the console userbase alone now throw in the portable userbase with that immense hype their predictions are not wild they're very much plausible despite the optimistic nature.

3DS shipping and production likely won't end next year though. It will still be on shelves and in the pipes when PS4 beats it.

That 4 million gain came from a 101 million gain in install base. The chances of Switch delivering that kind of install base are remote.