Will the new Zelda sell better on wii u or switch?

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bonzobanana on 08 February 2017

160rmf said:

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If I had pre-ordered a Switch to be honest the only game I would buy of the launch titles is Zelda. Nothing else is worth the asking price for me. As it is I have pre-ordered for wii u.

There will probably be a sizeable chunk of people running the wii u version as a pirate copy in 4k on pc via emulation and that technically may be the best way of running it. That will be the cleanest most beautiful graphics. I'm looking forward to seeing some screengrabs of it like that.

Yeah, because running a Wii U emulator at high settings of the most ambitious nintendo game ever must be a simple task, pretty acessable.

I don't think it compares in gameplay to Zelda but Xenoblade x looks equally impressive in many ways and that is running on the emulator. There is a strong chance Zelda will run on the emulator straight off and certainly I don't think it will be anymore demanding than Xenoblade.

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Kaneman! on 08 February 2017

Switch version will sell more, how much is dependent on hardware sales, though. I don't see the game going past 3m this year and 5m lifetime on the Switch.

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curl-6 on 08 February 2017

Breath of the Wild will almost certainly sell over 5 million copies across both systems.

It will sell more on Switch, but the Wii U version should still be an easy million seller unless it's massively undersupplied.

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Cloudman on 08 February 2017

Does it matter? People can pick which ever version they want. And I think your numbers are kinda a low bet.

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Barkley on 09 February 2017

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It always surprise me how people chooses to ignore the amount of annoyances that early emulators have, even dolphin doesn't get you a satisfactory experience in many cases, constant bugs, crashes, unstable framerate, audio crackling, stuttering everywhere, etc Anyone thinking on playing BoTW on PC without tons of issues anytime soon is up to a big disappointment.

???

Dolphin is near flawless.

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gtaguidelng on 09 February 2017

switch 2.5m
wii u 2m

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Fededx on 09 February 2017

Wiiu will barely pass the million mark, I'm going to buy it. Switch version is going to sell until the switch is dead, will surely see a players choice edition in the future... I estimate around 5 million for switch version.