Astro-Bot or Zelda EoW? Clash of the 2024 September Titans

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Sephiran said:

I think Astrobot and Echoes of Wisdom are probably selling pretty close to each other in the US and Europe, so Echoes of Wisdom will outsell Astrobot mainly because of the much higher Japanese sales.

Echoes probably outsold Astro in Europe already. The only market we have sales data is Spain but I think we can extrapolate it to mainland Europe minus UK?

but Astro legs are fine and it's possible by the end of the year both are equal of Christmas sales favors Astro 

For sure we have nothing conclusive and have to wait til some sort of announcement or details from a fiscal report.

In many markets we'll only get physical sales from the retail chart (i.e Spain). And the games will not have equal digital/physical split. Astro's physical sales for example were 33% less than Ratchet and Clank in week one in the UK, but then including digital it was 20% higher than Ratchet. Zelda by comparison is likely a more physically driven game, even though we'll never know the exact split per game. Playstation software revenue is 70% digital versus 45% for Nintendo. 

My expectation remains Zelda for EOY, but Astro for lifetime sales. I think Zelda will benefit from a very uncrowded Switch holiday season. Playstation however is having at least one big (multiplat) release per week which will steal some mindshare from Astro.