| curl-6 said: I just don't buy that there's millions upon millions of portable gamers who never bought prior console Zeldas but will run out and buy Breath of the Wild. Time will tell of course, but while over 11 million is not impossible, it does seem highly unlikely to me. Yes, it looks like a great game, yes it has hype, but to pass the 11 million mark you need more than that, you need the kind of mass market pop culture appeal of something like Skyrim or Mario Kart. |
Why not portables have always heavily outsold their console counterparts it's very likely in that sense, BOTW will be available to them on a platform they'll buy as the successor to what they currently play on so why wouldn't they buy it, the requirement of having to buy another platform has been removed.
Whose to say BOTW can't gain that appeal? The aren't really any games out there like Zelda even adventure games, the closest Okami is also only vaguely similar, this is how games like MK and Skyrim gain that appeal. Passing 11m to me is more a question of the Switch taking off and Nintendo putting BOTW in as many people's faces off that momentum.
