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I can only assume SMO is gonna smash that but still, sexy sexy legs



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Zelda legs will Kepler it selling, >10m imo.



Wow, good job Nintendo, now lets get that open world F-Zero.



Horizon is no doubt still the #1 sku for the year including digital. And it's retail sales have been huge lately with its $40 price point.

Zelda really should be beating it in the end but if Horizon replaces uncharted 4 as the standard ps4 slim/pro bundle this holiday and into next year it can hang with it in the long run.

Crazy to think a game by guerilla is challenging a pillar of gaming culture like Zelda.



Kerotan said:
Horizon is no doubt still the #1 sku for the year including digital. And it's retail sales have been huge lately with its $40 price point.

Zelda really should be beating it in the end but if Horizon replaces uncharted 4 as the standard ps4 slim/pro bundle this holiday and into next year it can hang with it in the long run.

Crazy to think a game by guerilla is challenging a pillar of gaming culture like Zelda.

Well Kero, Zelda games have never been juggernauts in terms of commercial reception, rather than critical one. This might be the first evergreen Zelda title since... Ocarina of Time maybe?



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guiduc said:
Kerotan said:
Horizon is no doubt still the #1 sku for the year including digital. And it's retail sales have been huge lately with its $40 price point.

Zelda really should be beating it in the end but if Horizon replaces uncharted 4 as the standard ps4 slim/pro bundle this holiday and into next year it can hang with it in the long run.

Crazy to think a game by guerilla is challenging a pillar of gaming culture like Zelda.

Well Kero, Zelda games have never been juggernauts in terms of commercial reception, rather than critical one. This might be the first evergreen Zelda title since... Ocarina of Time maybe?

zelda on consoles always sell like 4 million or more.

Zelda nes 6.50m

zelda snes 4.60m

ocarina of time n64 7.60m

majoras mask 3.36m

wind waker 4.60m

TP 7.16m wii and 1.59m GC

SW 3.95m

pretty good numbers for the genre and one console.



guiduc said:
Kerotan said:
Horizon is no doubt still the #1 sku for the year including digital. And it's retail sales have been huge lately with its $40 price point.

Zelda really should be beating it in the end but if Horizon replaces uncharted 4 as the standard ps4 slim/pro bundle this holiday and into next year it can hang with it in the long run.

Crazy to think a game by guerilla is challenging a pillar of gaming culture like Zelda.

Well Kero, Zelda games have never been juggernauts in terms of commercial reception, rather than critical one. This might be the first evergreen Zelda title since... Ocarina of Time maybe?

Yeah What guiduc said is true. Zelda games sell very well but sales wise its not one of Nintendo's monster IPs. Also HZD isn't really challenging Zelda in sales either. It came out on an install base of over 55 million, while Zelda came out on an install base of 0. So yeah HZD had a much bigger launch but Zelda's legs quickly surpassed HZD and even including digital sales, by the end of the year just the Switch version of Zelda will probably have like a million more sales than HZD, and then of course that gap will only increase in the coming years. Their sales were competitive for a few months due to Zelda being a launch game, that's the only reason (of course being the only huge game at launch also helps Zelda early sales).



onionberry said:
guiduc said:

Well Kero, Zelda games have never been juggernauts in terms of commercial reception, rather than critical one. This might be the first evergreen Zelda title since... Ocarina of Time maybe?

zelda on consoles always sell like 4 million or more.

Zelda nes 6.50m

zelda snes 4.60m

ocarina of time n64 7.60m

majoras mask 3.36m

wind waker 4.60m

TP 7.16m wii and 1.59m GC

SW 3.95m

pretty good numbers for the genre and one console.

Nintendo does all of this without introducing RPG elements.
Man, people sure do love their progress bars and increasing numbers.



onionberry said:
guiduc said:

Well Kero, Zelda games have never been juggernauts in terms of commercial reception, rather than critical one. This might be the first evergreen Zelda title since... Ocarina of Time maybe?

zelda on consoles always sell like 4 million or more.

Zelda nes 6.50m

zelda snes 4.60m

ocarina of time n64 7.60m

majoras mask 3.36m

wind waker 4.60m

TP 7.16m wii and 1.59m GC

SW 3.95m

pretty good numbers for the genre and one console.

I mean, compare it to other Nintendo IPS - Mario 3D, Mario Kart, Smash, Animal Crossing, Pokemon hell, even Splatoon, Zelda isn't their biggest seller is what I meant. Even though over 3 million is absolutely respectable.



It's fantastic when people use unofficial and inaccurate numbers to drive a point even though official numbers are readily available.

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