Good call but by 2020 it was fairly obvious it was headed north of 30 mil. Now if the OP was made in 2017, that would be impressive.
BotW will actually sell around | |||
| 23mil or under | 4 | 11.43% | |
| 25mil | 10 | 28.57% | |
| 27mil | 5 | 14.29% | |
| 29mil | 7 | 20.00% | |
| 31mil | 4 | 11.43% | |
| 33mil | 1 | 2.86% | |
| 35mil or more | 4 | 11.43% | |
| Total: | 35 | ||
Good call but by 2020 it was fairly obvious it was headed north of 30 mil. Now if the OP was made in 2017, that would be impressive.


More than 75% of voters said under 30m, so while it seems an easy bet to us now, that wasn't what people thought in 2020.
| HyrulianScrolls said: Good call but by 2020 it was fairly obvious it was headed north of 30 mil. Now if the OP was made in 2017, that would be impressive. |
Nah 10mil was bold. 20mil would be insane, we live in another era. NSW software sales were completely unheard of for games not like by massive casual like Wii games
| curl-6 said: More than 75% of voters said under 30m, so while it seems an easy bet to us now, that wasn't what people thought in 2020. |
Correct, we knew legs but these legs were unheard of. Only MKWii had these kind of legs and not even that had as longevity (due to Wii decline va nsw year 5-8)

Nice to look back on these! You should do a prediction thread for total Switch 1 software by the end of Switch 2 gen :P
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| PAOerfulone said: Looking at the game's Fiscal Year sales since release, (Special shoutout to @RolStoppable for providing the data , we see that Breath of the Wild has done this much thus far: FY 03/2017 - 2.76 (2.76) All signs point to Nintendo taking their time with releasing a successor, so the Switch still has plenty of life ahead of it. This is just a shot in the dark, but I could see future sales looking something like this: FY 03/2021 - 3.70 (21.11) FY 03/2023 - 3.20 (28.31) Keep in mind the Wii U version was at 1.67 million the last time Nintendo provided those figures. I'd imagine it would be around 2 million by the time Switch to comes out, (If it isn't already), bringing it to between 32.68 and 33.01 million From there, it will only need an additional 1.99 to 2.32 million units to reach it. Which I think it would easily accomplish if that's the case. |
As one of the three users who voted '35mil or more,' I shall now take my victory lap!
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