Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sales Predictions

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Wyrdness said:

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Because if those millions of gamers were interested in console Zeldas, they would have bought past ones.

And the Zelda series has been around for over 30 years but has never had the casual appeal needed to reach the 11 million plus range. It's a hardcore gamer's series, it appeals primarily to Nintendo fans and to the kind of gamers like us who take the hobby very seriously and frequent video game forums. That's enough for a game to sell in the 3-8 million range, but to blow passed 11 million you really need to get the casuals on board in droves, and I just don't think BotW is trendy or hip enough to do so.

That's a very flawed argument, you can have interests in games but never get the chance to buy and play them for the reasons I mentioned earlier, many Xbox fans never played Final Fantasy because it was on another platform but bought it when it was available to them for example.

TP proves you wrong on it not being able to appeal to casuals as many of the added 4m were new to the series signalling it can have such appeal if pushed, good momentum and marketing push with 2 platforms and a unified userbase is not farfetched, you're also mistaking casuals for mainstream players as the latter are the ones focused on what's hip.

Final Fantasy becoming available on Xbox didn't propel the series to new heights in sales though; FF13 across PS3 and 360 still sold less than FF10 on PS2 or FF7/FF8 on PS1.

TP does not prove me wrong, it sold less than 9 million in spite of riding the wave of Nintendo's most successful console ever. Switch will almost certainly be less successful than the Wii.