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Faelco on 02 February 2017
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Goodnightmoon said:
Faelco said:

A small number of gamers seems to be sure that Zelda is the greatest video game ever and that each new game in the series is an amazing system seller that the whole world dreams about.

And yet, the best selling Zelda game ever (Twilight Princess) sold less that Uncharted 4, even with an userbase twice bigger. It also sold less that annual games like FIFA (once again with an userbase twice bigger).

Zelda is a critical success and is hugely loved by Nintendo fans. But the broader audience doesn't care that much about it, and it surely won't change a console's fate by itself.

Some games sell 30m but they dont sell a system, some games sell a third of that, but they selkl the system, Fifa is not a system seller.

Also, funny how you totally forget that OoT, a game on a 35m userbase, sold more than uncharted 1,2 and 3 on an 80m userbase, what is the conclusuon of that? or maybe that part does not interest you? Appart fromt he fact that TP sold more than 9m when you combine the GC version, but BoTW will probably be the best selling Zelda ever anyways.

And nobody ever said that Uncharted 1, 2 or 3 were awesome commercial successes. Critical success yes, but until Uncharted 4 released everyone always said that Microsoft IPs like Halo or Gears were huge commercial successes and Sony IPs like Uncharted were not. Not a lot of people (almost noone) expected Uncharted 4 to outsell Halo 5 for example.

And you missed my point. Zelda sells Nintendo consoles to Nintendo fans. The rest of the world won't massively buy a console only for Zelda, the series is not popular enough for that. Never did, never will.

The Zelda audience isn't that big compared to the Wii U audience. Even with a 100M userbase, it didn't achieved 10M sales, we can pretty safely assume that less than 10M people in the world are in that Zelda's audience. This is pretty much on par with the usual ~15M Nintendo fans who bought the Wii U. No doubt about these 10-15M buying the Switch, they would buy it no matter what, the question is about the rest of the world. And this rest of the world won't buy the Switch for Zelda.

I'm really curious to see how your prediction of BoTW being the best selling Zelda ever will turn out...