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Should Hyrule Warriors Legends be counted in the million selling list with the Wii U version, or separately on here?

Lumped with Hyrule Warriors Wii U 23 30.26%
 
Separate 53 69.74%
 
Total:76
Miyamotoo on 22 August 2016
VGPolyglot said:
Miyamotoo said:
I think biggest faile here is Wii Fit U, Wii Fit on Wii sold more than 20m copies, on Wii U cant pass 1m.

What about Wii Sports Club?

Well Wii Sports Club is just Wii Sports HD, but yes that failed too hard.



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Rogerioandrade on 22 August 2016

Cool idea. But that´s just considering retail sales right?
Some of those games actually surpassed a million copies sold if we count digital sales, like Mario Tennis and Star Fox.



Megaoverlord12 on 22 August 2016
Vinther1991 said:
I think if Hyrule Warriors Legend should be counted with the Wii U version. Then the same should be the case for Smash Bros. on your other list

The thing of is, is that Warriors Legends is more of a complete edition or whatever of Warriors Wii U. The same game, but with added content. Smash Wii U has completely different content than Smash 3DS, in game modes and stages.

memoryman3 said:
Come on Mario and Sonic....you can reach 1 million....right?

Mario & Sonic Rio will probably eventually reach it on the back of it being WiiU/3DS.

Rogerioandrade said:
Cool idea. But that´s just considering retail sales right?
Some of those games actually surpassed a million copies sold if we count digital sales, like Mario Tennis and Star Fox.

From the OP: "Note: VGChartz numbers only, so while I'm positive most everything over 800k-900k probably reached 1 million by now, we're only using physical." 



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curl-6 on 22 August 2016
Rogerioandrade said:
Some of those games actually surpassed a million copies sold if we count digital sales, like Mario Tennis and Star Fox.

Source?

I seriously doubt those two have sold over a million including digital; for that to be true, the majority of their sales would have to be digital.

EDIT: Disregard. I stupidly thought you meant the Wii U ones.



Megaoverlord12 on 22 August 2016
curl-6 said:
Rogerioandrade said:
Some of those games actually surpassed a million copies sold if we count digital sales, like Mario Tennis and Star Fox.

Source?

I seriously doubt those two have sold over a million including digital; for that to be true, the majority of their sales would have to be digital.

He probably meant the 3DS games.



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curl-6 on 22 August 2016
Megaoverlord12 said:
curl-6 said:

Source?

I seriously doubt those two have sold over a million including digital; for that to be true, the majority of their sales would have to be digital.

He probably meant the 3DS games.

... I'm an idiot. XD



Pavolink on 22 August 2016

X deserves a lot more sales



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Megaoverlord12 on 22 August 2016
curl-6 said:
Megaoverlord12 said:

He probably meant the 3DS games.

... I'm an idiot. XD

Well to be fair, there are Mario Tennis and Star Fox on both so Wii U and 3DS, so he COULD have meant the Wii U ones. I guess the world may never know.

Pavolink said:
X deserves a lot more sales

That it does. Here's hoping it got at least enough for the sequel they're building up to.



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curl-6 on 22 August 2016
Pavolink said:
X deserves a lot more sales

Amen. :(

Unfortunately, the cards were stacked against it from the beginning; it's a JRPG not called Final Fantasy that released in 2015 exclusively on a console that will struggle to reach the 14 million mark. All things considered, I think it's done alright.



curl-6 on 23 August 2016
RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

Amen. :(

Unfortunately, the cards were stacked against it from the beginning; it's a JRPG not called Final Fantasy that released in 2015 exclusively on a console that will struggle to reach the 14 million mark. All things considered, I think it's done alright.

You should also consider what the developers themselves did to limit its sales. When you come up with battle and skill systems that are so convoluted that even longtime RPG players need hours to grasp all of it, then you are locking out a big chunk of the market you could sell to. Offering a big game world can draw in only so many people.

Yeah, it is certainly not the most user friendly JRPG. Marketing could've been better also, I don't recall them making much of a push outside of their social media channels, which don't have much reach beyond those who are already fans.