How well do you think Metroid Dread will sell?

[IcaroRibeiro]

Kakadu18 said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

We already had 2D Zeldas selling 5 million. LA sales are disappointing, it was the game released after BOTW by far the most popular Zelda of all time

Poor Metroid Dread will launch after almost a decade of a franchise collecting dust. People here are screaming Zelda when Metroid situation is much closer to Kirby lol 

The only other 2D Zelda game that ever sold over 5mil copies in a single sku is the original The Legend of Zelda, all others sold below that. These sales for Link's Awakening aren't disappointing, they are huge and show how BotW has grown the franchise.

Is that really so? I mean, the range of increase for Link's Awakening is more in line with ones likes Xenoblade, Pikmin and Fire Emblem (30-40% increase over the best selling iteration). Seems a natural progress of Nintendo IPs on Switch, rather than a push coming from BOTW

BOTW is on its run to sell about 4 times more than any other 3D Zelda. One game that absolutely was "pushed" by BOTW is Age of Calamity, in only few months it far outsold all other entries combined (3.7 million vs 2.2 million of everything else combined, VG Chartz data)

For Link's Awakening the push seems much less pronounced for me. BOTW is just too different from LA to warrant similar interest of people who only like BOTW