I actually didn't realize that Zelda wasn't a huge selling franchise. I mean, Skyward Sword sold 4 million copies on the Wii. It's normally been a 3-4 million franchise for the last 20 years on home consoles except Twilight Princess which was the biggest launch title for Nintendo's best selling console ever.

So I don't know about sales. Realistically I think the Switches bad launch lineup might push Zelda over the top.

As far as Metacritic, It's Zelda. There will be petitions if it averages less than 90.

This will be interesting to watch, but I still think Zelda takes it.

well good thing the impressions of the gameplay have been nothing but positive. That's actually what everyone who played it had to say, "It had really smooth and great gameplay for an ARPG"

1.) I think they will be pretty close on the scores, Zelda might be higher because of hype and it's a Zelda game that can play into people's nostalgia though. Though both will have a hard time beating The Witcher 3 TBH which is the current bar.

2.) I actually don't know how the sales will go, it's really hard to predict this one, higher installbase doesn't always result in higher selling numbers, Horizon has way less hype compared to Zelda.

3.) No fucking shit, the Switch is based on mobile tech and is running a game that started dev on Wii U , the fuck would anybody expect? lol. While you can argue asthetics based on the preference of either cel-shaded or realism, on the topic of power level, the PS4 already wins by default, so it will push more effects no matter what.

zelda =coke
horzion = pepsi

the problem with skyward sword was a weak presentation, forced motion controls with add ons, skyrim and nintendo launched the game at the end of the wii's lifespan after the announcement of the wii u. If you see a game like twilight princess, that game sold a lot because the wii launched with zelda and that's it, well and wii sport obviously. But that zelda sold more than skyward sword because it was a launch title and the hype was real, breath of the wild is in a similar position. 

both are good, both have their markets... but deep inside one is better than the other.

Although I'm saying that Horizon is good without true facts, but hopefully it's a good start for a new franchise. Anyways, zelda will sell more and the reviews are going to be better. We will see which game has better gameplay mechanics, as a fan and knowing zelda, I think zelda will win in the gameplay mechanics department, the story could go either way although for me zelda will win cause I care about zelda's universe but who knows, maybe horizon has a fantastic lore and story. Tech department well horizon looks too good so horizon wins. 

My unbiased opinion tells me that horizon is going to be good but it's going to suffer from the "same stuff of every open world game" situation while zelda is going to be enhanced because the zelda gameplay and mechanic is going to be part of tha "same stuff of every open world game" situation.

So looking back, I think I quoted the wrong comments between you too, both the one I just grabbed and the previous comment not listed above, referred to "review scores"  That's why I mentioned it in the first place.  So that ones on me, With the major hit because of release date I was referring to second week scores because I do think that many gamers are both interested in Horizon and Zelda.  But again the major hit is in reference to second week, not first.  So the hit will be significantly smaller than what you are probably thinking.  I had other reasons why I believe horizon will sell less but I guess I didn't put them in my initial comment, that was my bad lol.

As for the emotional thing, that was probably the wrong word to say.  But usually people don't give advice without asking first. 

Seems you have convenently forgotten about the almost 8 million that OoT sold on N64, a console that sold 1/3 of Wii and the game was not at release , so from 5 3d Zelda mainline games on console, 3 have sold 4-5m and 2 have sold around 7m-8m (more counting the GC version of TP), so where is exactly the trend? Also this Zelda has even more hype than TP.

Do you even look at your freaking comments.