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RolStoppable said:

I think TP will eventually outsell the original release of Ocarina of Time.

By the way, Khuutra, you should fix the original post. "The Ocarina of Time" was the work in progress subtitle and for the final release the "The" got dropped. I can't let that one slide.

I can, because the shortened form becomes "toot"



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RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:

I can, because the shortened form becomes "toot"

Man tut nicht toot gebrauchen.

I don't speak Austrian.



14.9k this week, keeping up its pacing. It should manage to get 15k next week before collapsing back to the sub-5k range. We'll see.



Khuutra said:

14.9k this week, keeping up its pacing. It should manage to get 15k next week before collapsing back to the sub-5k range. We'll see.


It sold 15.5k this week. Get your facts straight, man!

... By the way, it seems that the two Wii Zeldas so far have a decent shot of beating the two N64 Zeldas. The two Wii ones are at 10.48 million, the two N64 ones total out at 10.96 million.

(Of course, Skyward Sword is going to ruin the comparison completely, but let's ignore that for now).



Pineapple said:
Khuutra said:

14.9k this week, keeping up its pacing. It should manage to get 15k next week before collapsing back to the sub-5k range. We'll see.

It sold 15.5k this week. Get your facts straight, man!

... By the way, it seems that the two Wii Zeldas so far have a decent shot of beating the two N64 Zeldas. The two Wii ones are at 10.48 million, the two N64 ones total out at 10.96 million.

(Of course, Skyward Sword is going to ruin the comparison completely, but let's ignore that for now).

The numbers must have been adjusted, then.

And it will cross that easily enough, Link's Crossbow Training is selling much more briskly than is Twilight Princess.

I can't help but wonder how Skyward Sword will do.



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Khuutra said:
Pineapple said:
Khuutra said:

14.9k this week, keeping up its pacing. It should manage to get 15k next week before collapsing back to the sub-5k range. We'll see.

It sold 15.5k this week. Get your facts straight, man!

... By the way, it seems that the two Wii Zeldas so far have a decent shot of beating the two N64 Zeldas. The two Wii ones are at 10.48 million, the two N64 ones total out at 10.96 million.

(Of course, Skyward Sword is going to ruin the comparison completely, but let's ignore that for now).

The numbers must have been adjusted, then.

And it will cross that easily enough, Link's Crossbow Training is selling much more briskly than is Twilight Princess.

I can't help but wonder how Skyward Sword will do.


Probably around Twilight Princess levels. The Wii has far fiercer competition on it now than it did when Twilight Princess launched, so that's going to pull it down quite immensely. The bigger installbase doesn't quite make up for that.



Pineapple said:
Khuutra said:

The numbers must have been adjusted, then.

And it will cross that easily enough, Link's Crossbow Training is selling much more briskly than is Twilight Princess.

I can't help but wonder how Skyward Sword will do.

Probably around Twilight Princess levels. The Wii has far fiercer competition on it now than it did when Twilight Princess launched, so that's going to pull it down quite immensely. The bigger installbase doesn't quite make up for that.

Fiercer competition for a Zelda title? Do tell. And more, explain why that competition hasn't affected TP's legs.



Khuutra said:
Pineapple said:
Khuutra said:

The numbers must have been adjusted, then.

And it will cross that easily enough, Link's Crossbow Training is selling much more briskly than is Twilight Princess.

I can't help but wonder how Skyward Sword will do.

Probably around Twilight Princess levels. The Wii has far fiercer competition on it now than it did when Twilight Princess launched, so that's going to pull it down quite immensely. The bigger installbase doesn't quite make up for that.

Fiercer competition for a Zelda title? Do tell. And more, explain why that competition hasn't affected TP's legs.

The Wii's software sales are at its peak. It's selling as much software this year as it did last year, and the year before that. It's also going to sell roughly as much software this year as next, I'm not going to get into why this is right now.

Every year, more and more games are trying to get a slice of the total software sales. The games from previous years, like Mario Kart Wii, are still kicking strong. Thus, there's every year more and more competition for the software sales.

All games on a platform are in competition with one another. Some to a far larger extent than others, but all to some extent. Twilight Princess released on a platform with few big competitors, Skyward Sword is releasing against extremely hard competition, possibly the fiercest competition of any console, and at least the toughest on any NIntendo console.



Hm. We shall see! My personal predictions were actually much lower than Twlight Princess, about 5 million lifetime as compared to 8 million, but we'll see.



Oh, I'm talking about the Wii version of Twilight Princess, not the combined total of the Gamecube version and Wii version.