"3) It's an amount of  factors that made HZD the sucess it is, but price cut/sales are usually one of the biggest factor why good games can keep selling well.Not the sole factor but it's not something you can brush off just because you feel entitled."

Modified to reflet your point.

As for the downplaying part, your insecurity of seeing opinions that exactly reflet yours is just sad. I came here aknowledging the sucess of this game and then explain that it did this much (and will do even more obviously) because of the help of price cut/sales + aknowledging  other factors do exist to explain it's sucess.

Your basically trying to input your own impression on something that had no goal of doing that.

you just called it an observation in a response to someone else and that is all it amounts to

without proper data on the games' average sales price there is no basis to call your interpretation of that observation "fact" or treat it as one

I never get why zelda crawls its way into every horizon thread. What about the Witcher 3? Or any other 3rd person game with RPG elements?

Not only is zelda a very very established IP, its also one of the biggest IPs in nintendo's portfolio of games. Having made an appearance on every single nintendo platform with exception to the Virtual boy. Even more, its on a platform with less than 5 must have games and one of the most popular games of those 5.

I guess its a testemant to just how good HZD is; being a first attempt in a new genre from a dev and a new IP all the while being compared to one of the greatest longest standing IPs of all time.

June (Right during E3) :

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/06/13/horizon-zero-dawn-frozen-wilds-costs-20-playstation-plus-members-save-25-pre-ordering/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2017-06/videogames#1

Got a tremendous boost in relation to the heavy price cut to 20$

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/npd-sales-results-for-may-2017.1394470/

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/npd-sales-results-for-june-2017.1408987/

The game maintained itself/or did better during that month instead of progressively decreasing. Price point during E3 had obvious impact on it's performance

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/07/07/playstation-store-junes-top-downloads-2/

- Got a 20$ cut-off during that month.

- Wasn't even  Top 20 in May charts

November :

https://www.gamesradar.com/horizon-zero-dawn-is-only-20-on-amazon-just-in-time-for-the-frozen-wilds-dlc/

Ranked #21 in the Amazon monthly chart, even during a buzy period with other major titles. 

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/12/07/playstation-store-novembers-top-downloads-2/

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/11/17/black-friday-comes-early-for-ps-plus-members/

#3 in the charts. Coincide with the DLC Frozen Wilds arrival and flash sales on the PSN.

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So, now my basis is there. Care to deny my statement ?

uhh.. according to your source that $20 price is the pre-order price of the expansion DLC (and that alone, not the complete package)

Wow.......

Ok, so the gsme like evrery other game before it got price cuts. But unlike most games it has managed to sell very well almost hitting 8M in a year. 

Its a new IP.

Its on one platform.

It had a dev cost of about $50M. Its probably made well over $300M.

Can we move on? 

This debate of just why Horizon is doing good has run its course. Neither side will reach common ground and it's clear that games see bundles/price-cuts/sales throughout their lives. It's not exclusive to this game.

So, you folks need to move on!

I do know that and its the reason why i like them the most, since i am someone who quickly gets tired of franchises and wants to move on the next new thing, and Sony has been really good at delivering at least 3 full new IPs per generation  that i end up loving, for example this gen i got Bloodborne and Horizon and last gen it was DeS, Uncharted and TLOU.

Thats not to say that i love every game they put out, its just that they do so MUCH that eventually i end up finding something that i am truly hyped about, just look at how many games they put out last gen and this gen that i didnt even mention, and thats not to say that i think games like Little Big Planet, Infamous, Resistance, Drive Club, The Order 1886, etc. are bad games but they just dont interest me, but i still appreciate that they make those games because i know a lot of other people will be hyped about them.

Well deserved the games graphics alone are a marvel but overall it just felt balanced like jack of all trades master of none but in a good way.

I'm quite impressed, to be honest. That's an awfully big number for a brand new IP that stars a non-sexualized female protagonist, and without leaning on multi-player.

As far as it being remembered as the game that was overshadowed by BotW, that sounds like the perspective of someone who wants that to be the case. Is The Shawshank Redemption remembered as the film that was overshadowed by Forest Gump? No, it's simply remembered as a damn good movie.