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Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Slimebeast said:
adsl said:

 

 

 

Skyward Swords - 5 million (I'm not sure if it will sell more than Twilight Princess) 

RolStoppable said:

Zelda - 5m

zuvuyeay said:

zelda 5m

I think this pretty much confirms how unimpressed people were with Zelda Swords...

The demo was more a controls try-out, then a real showcase of the game.

Yes it was but there has been a few boss fight videos posted over at Gametrailers and the user scores have been bysmal.



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Zelda Skyward Swords - 4.8 million

Donkey Kong Country Returns - 3.3 million

Kirby Epic Yarn - 1.6 million

Epic Mickey - 1.1 million



Slimebeast said:
xKakashi209x said:

Over 9000!

 

Zelda Swords - 7.5million

Donkey Kong Country - 5.5million

Kirby Yarn - 3.0 million

Epic Mickey - 1.5 million

Over 9000 what?

Each one is going to have over 9000 sales for sure.



Barozi said:

Zelda Skyward Swords - 4.8 million

Donkey Kong Country Returns - 3.3 million

Kirby Epic Yarn - 1.6 million

Epic Mickey - 1.1 million

Wow. Epic fail if those numbers come true.



Out of Curiosity, what is a person like you making a thread about Nintendo games?

 

On a note I believe all will sell over 1M for sure, DKCR - 6M,  Skyward Sword - 5.6M, Kirby's epic yarn - 2.78M and epic mickey - 3M.



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These 4 games are the games I might buy a Wii for. I always said to myself I'll get "a $149 Wii with Zelda Wii". I am still unsure about the control methods though. I don't like inaccurate motion controls.



Nintendogamer said:

Out of Curiosity, what is a person liek you making a thread about Nitnendo games?

 

On a note I believe all will sell over 1M for sure, DKCR - 6M,  Skyward Sword - 5.6M, Kirby's epic yarn - 2.78M and epic mickey - 3M.

Oh yeah I just wrote that in a post below you. I really like the look of all of them. Except for Zelda, a huge disappointment - but it's still Zelda!

"These 4 games are the games I might buy a Wii for. I always said to myself I'll get "a $149 Wii with Zelda Wii". I am still unsure about the control methods though. I don't like inaccurate motion controls."



Slimebeast, read some hands on impressions of Skyward Sword-I read a dozen or so, and they were all positive. That terrible on stage demo was more down to technical problems than poor design or poor controls.

For Kirby I'd expect over 1.5m, it'll get lost in Europe during Q1. For DKCR, I expect around 4-5million based on the strength of the franchise in America, and a big marketing push from Nintendo. Epic Mickey I'd like to see do a couple of million, but with it being a third party Wii game it's all up in the air. And for Zelda, 5 million is the minimum I expect. If this has enough hype and marketing around it, it could go as high as 7 or 8 million. TP's sales across GC and Wii top out at above 7.5million, don't they? Skyward Sword will hopefully do something similar.

 

EDIT: I checked on VGC, and by those numbers Twilight Princess has sold around 7.21 million across GC and Wii. So under my initial statement, but I doubt Skyward Sword will fall significantly under that.



I know that WIi party will do at least 10M lifetime.



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new 3ds

yoshi woolly world

zelda U

majora's mask 3d

Slimebeast said:
Barozi said:

Zelda Skyward Swords - 4.8 million

Donkey Kong Country Returns - 3.3 million

Kirby Epic Yarn - 1.6 million

Epic Mickey - 1.1 million

Wow. Epic fail if those numbers come true.

Well the last Zelda entry did 5.65 million units on the Wii over almost 4 years. Considering it did almost 8k this week, I'd say it's rather unlikely to have these kind of legs in the year 2014/2015. Could do a better analysis but it's hard without the graphs...

As for the rest of these games I simply don't think they are recognizable enough (DK too old, Kirby not big enough on consoles) and Epic Mickey just doesn't look good enough to me. Also I have no reason to believe why those games should sell so much more than Wario Land Shake It. Furthermore only Mario and Sonic managed to break 1m sales on the Wii if we only consider platformers.