Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sales Predictions

[Wyrdness]

curl-6 said:

Wyrdness said:

FF coming to Xbox caused the series sales to rise again, FFXII sold 5.9m down 2m from X, XIII sold less on PS3 but with the added sales from 360 it matched X's sales, this highlights not only my point in that people can be interested in a game but not end up buying it when it's not available to them for the earlier reasons but it also shows how significant adding a new userbase into the mix is and shows new userbases who previous didn't buy the games will buy it if it's made available to them.

TP heavily proves you wrong because it flat out shows the series can have massive increases when the is momentum, now the is also an added userbase.

But again, it didn't raise the sales ceiling for the franchise, and similarly, Switch being portable won't significantly raise the ceiling for Zelda's sales.

4 million increase from a 101 million install base; Switch will not sell close to 101 million, so any increase will accordingly be much lower.

Switch doesn't need to sell 101m you have this flawed mindset that it's the total that determines the increase in sales, Wii U has already disproved this with MK8, 3DS and Wii U don't have 101m but Smash 4 matched Brawl's numbers with 25m less users. What caused the increase for TP was the momentum of success, momentum is also why on 3DS alone Smash 4 outsold all console Smash games  except Brawl.

It didn't raise the ceiling but it halted a significant slide which would have continued had those sales not been present, that extra 2-3m or so made a big difference to the final tally and that's the point it returned the ceiling, XV already has hit 5m sales in one week because of the being two userbases where as that was the ceiling during the XII era. 2-3m extra for BOTW could easily help it to 11m.