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Shatts on 17 July 2023
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haxxiy said:
Shatts said:

Yeah I did think about Warcraft, but the condition has been pretty bad for the past few years and I couldn't find a big factor that would put it to Top 10. It's probably somewhere in the Top 20.

I think Zelda is above Elder Scrolls in every way possible. Revenue, popularity, impact, WW, current state, continuity, history, etc. There also hasn't been a new proper Elder Scrolls game for like 10 years and it's looking like another 5 years to that so yea.

For PUBG I considered mobile and how big it is.

Assassin's Creed is probably Top 20-30 as well.

Skyrim actually sold as much as Breath of the Wild did since the latter was released, though, which is just nuts for what was a 5+-year-old game at the time. And Elder Scrolls Online is probably also a 20+ million seller by now.

Besides, Zelda was honestly not that big before BOTW (smaller than Final Fantasy, in fact).

Assassin's Creed I think the same as Sims: while the games aren't exactly top-notch, they still sell some 20 million a pop each time. So definitely a popular and enduring franchise.

True if we only compare Skyrim to BotW/TotK and the copies sold. But did you consider the price difference? You can get Skyrim for much cheaper than Botw and Totk. If we also look at the franchise as a whole, Zelda has about 140 million copies sold, Elder Scrolls about 90 million being optimistic. I agree Zelda wasn't mainstream until BotW, but I think you're underestimating the numbers a little bit. It had multiple entries that passed the 5 million mark.

Yeah Assassin's Creed and the Sims have respectful numbers, but I wouldn't consider them Top 10. I might as well put the Mii series if I were to put them on the list.

Last edited by Shatts - on 17 July 2023