Wyrdness said:
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. |
All that momentum though, all the mass appeal and pop culture phenomenon of the Wii and all the insane hype behind TP as the spiritual successor to one of the most beloved games of all time, (Ocarina) and it still didn't even get close to 11 million.
Xbox and FF are a prime example that even adding tens of millions of consumers to one's userbase can still fail to raise the sales ceiling of a franchise.
