| Sephiran said: No its not confirmed that Astro Bot sold more than Echoes of Wisdom in the west. All we know is that digital and physical sales over a longer period of time were higher for Astro Bot than just physical sales for Echoes of Wisdom. In all likelihood Echoes of Wisdom sold more in the west as well, and we will get that confirmation at a later date anyway. Sony first party games don't outsell Nintendo first party games in general, so it would be impossible for Astro Bot, a small Sony IP to outsell a bigger Nintendo IP like Zelda, it hasn't happened in the entire Switch generation. The reason is simple; Playstation is a Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed and FIFA machine, while people buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games. |
This is a pretty silly argument to make.
Helldivers was a smaller IP until it had a breakout hit and sold 12m in 12 weeks.
Astro "outsold pretty much every platformer besides Mario" in its openning month in Europe. So it is a breakout hit in its genre, a genre that relies on legs rather than big openings.
Now I think almost everyone is expecting Zelda to have a stronger start, I don't think we need to continually reiterate the obvious that Zelda is a bigger IP.
But non-mainline Zelda is not some crazy seller. A Links Awakening was last recorded at <7m... Ratchet and Clank 2016 has sold 7m. Equally Hyrule Warriors has been outsold by Rift Apart.
History favours Zelda winning this race, but there are many variables that could see Astro outpacing it not only Lifetime but even this Christmas. There will be no conclusion to this topic yet and words like "impossible" simply do not apply.
