i honestly thought it would be higher on the list

Didn't surprise me.

Why? It says "Zelda" in the title. The majority of gamers out there, especially those who spend most of their time in the Nintendo ecosystem, have no idea what a Musou game is. All they see is a new Zelda title from Nintendo.

Post-release reaction from this segment will be very interesting.

loool, this!

In terms of it charting, I think  the game will outsell any dynasty game in recent memory and its audience will mostly be core Ninty fans, so they're likely to preorder. What would surprise me is if the game sells more then 600k worldwide.

Not really. What does surprise me, is that it seems no review ever mentioned that Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper was a launch title for Wii U...

I must have skimmed the "Zelda" bit in the title Hyrule Warriors.

Most casule wii u gamers who are that uninformed were filtered out of actually owning the system by the systems name. Anyone who makes that mistake only has themself to blame but I think it'll be a very small minority. I would expect more people would buy smash because they see mario on the cover and think it's a platform game.

idk Zelda will be the reason anybody buys this

It's the reason why I am buying it...

Plus Zelda looks sooo sizzling HAWT in this game... I don't think she's ever been hawter!

Ive been playing the shit out of it, i can honestly say that its an epic game, im really enjoying it. Anybody on the fence should take the plunge and buy this great game.

Kingdom Hearts III doesn't have a release date neither and it's been in the charts for a while.