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TheRealSamusAran said:
"The year of our lord 2024" was figure of speech, 3D platformers not named Mario or Sonic haven't been popular since the 6th generation, and Sonic, although a household name, haven't been doing super hot with the quality and reception of their games since that same time period, although things seem to be changing there at Sega. And do I even need to mention what the Crash situation is? Kirby is a 2D platformer franchise, but they did release that 3D game a couple years back which sold pretty well, so I will give you that. I'm actually curious now on wether Astrobot really had a better launch, because Forgotten Land is sitting on over 7.5m copies sold as of March 2024. I think comparing those two would be way more interesting than comparing Astro to Mario or Zelda. |
Nintendo games keep good sales for longs periods of time, I can see Kirby release not being extremely hot and it still reaching quite the big sales number down the road.
I didn't give Forgotten Land much thought when it came out, had zero hype, and still got it sometime later when I found a deal for it out of the blue.
About Sonic and Crash, both Crash Bandicoot 4 and I assume Sonic Frontiers (3.5M in 6 months) sold over 5M copies, which is a pretty big number for that kind of game, so outselling both during the launch windown was indeed an impressive feat in my eyes, as that is exactly the kind of sales, 5M, I see it would be trying to reach.
God of War used to reach about 5M to 7M and now it's reaching 15M to 20M, it tripled in sales size, so Astro Bot would surely need to carve its way into the userbase until thet get used to see it, until let's say, Astro Bot 3 can finally reach 10M, that was always a way more likely scenario IMO.
If the game is already popular enough to compete with Sonic and Crash, it's a pretty great start.
