September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

[LipeJJ]

last92 said:

LipeJJ said:

Yep, it is. Just like Zelda was a 5m~8m brand, but Zelda BotW is already over 10m just a year and a half after release. Same for Splatoon 2, which surpassed the original on the first year, or Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and so on. This is one of the reasons I think the series will grow on Switch: almost everything is growing, and some games are reaching never seen before hights. I mean, Odyssey shipped 9m in a quarter when most 3D Marios end up selling around 10m. Besides, Switch's audience seems more connected to Nintendo games than never, not to mention they're all having awesome legs. Hype is also through the roof and the internet seems to like it a lot.

There are even more reasons, but these are the main ones.

I don't know...I mean, zelda did better than previous entries, true, but it's not so far ahead of twilight princess right now and it was a very anticipated game that released more than 5 years after its predecessor and embraced the open world concept that is so loved lately. SSBU is just...well, an ultimate version of the usual ssb. It will surely sell very well, but I'm not sure it will be able to double the current best selling entry in the series like you think. I'm personally expecting 15 mln, which would make it the best selling ssb game ever.

Also, now that I think of it, you basically expect ssbu to double mario odyssey. It seems a little bit too optimistic to me.

It's 2m ahead of TP after only being available for 18 months, and it's still shipping a lot each quarter.

Btw, I'm not expecting Smash to double Odyssey as I (and most people on VGC) expect Odyssey to at least get near the 20m mark, really. You talk like these games' current sales are definitive, like they're set in stones and won't keep growing. I don't know why you perceive it this way, but I assure you it's not like that xD... especially with Nintendo games, which almost always have long legs (meaning they sell well after long periods). Maybe you're not following the sales of these games, or maybe you're missing the quarterly results. If you follow these reports, you'll be able to better understand the sales curve of the games.