The remarks about it outselling those non-Mario games is not in 2024, but from the last 10 years.

In the UK it during its launch it sold better than any Sonic or Crash, releases in the last 10 years, which are very popular and liked franchises, released as multiplatformers. Also sold better than Kirby which is a beloved Nintendo platformer.

It was quite the feat.

prolly should’ve added: According to OpenCritic. Only first-party Sony title to ever hit 95. It seems to be sitting in 6th on MC. As far as awards are concerned, that’s a but irrelevant to my initial remark, though I agree it won’t receive anywhere near the same level of praise of many PlayStation games (for the obv reason that platformers almost never receive any recognition in these situations).

I think you're loosing sight of the point. 

"it would be impossible for Astro Bot, a small Sony IP to outsell a bigger Nintendo IP like Zelda, it hasn't happened in the entire Switch generation."

Helldivers was a smaller sony IP. It has sold a lot on PS5, well beyond the IP's original estimation, around a minimum of 4m in 3months and its still charting on PSN chart, it could be at 7m or 8m by now but Sony hasn't updated the number. There is no "impossible" in this conversation, there is always obviously potential for titles to overperform and for franchises to have breakout hits. I mean would anyone of expected Zelda BOTW to approach 30m in sales back in 2017?

Considering Sonys last 2 major platformers have sold 4m & 7m, it is not "impossible" for Astro to reach the 7-8m range which would make it competitive with this branch of Zelda on Switch. It was already tracking ahead of the 4m selling title (Rift Apart) so that is the sensible floor for its sales.

With the second point, you ignored my key point about platformers depending on legs. Crash Trilogy & It Takes Two have sold 20m each, Spyro Trilogy 10m, Crash 4, 5m...  but that isn't reflected in huge openings but simply through having strong legs. Astro having a strong start for its genre is in fact a good indication it can go on to do big numbers.

"The year of our lord 2024" was figure of speech, 3D platformers not named Mario or Sonic haven't been popular since the 6th generation, and Sonic, although a household name, haven't been doing super hot with the quality and reception of their games since that same time period, although things seem to be changing there at Sega. And do I even need to mention what the Crash situation is?

Kirby is a 2D platformer franchise, but they did release that 3D game a couple years back which sold pretty well, so I will give you that. I'm actually curious now on wether Astrobot really had a better launch, because Forgotten Land is sitting on over 7.5m copies sold as of March 2024. I think comparing those two would be way more interesting than comparing Astro to Mario or Zelda.

"The year of our lord 2024" was figure of speech, 3D platformers not named Mario or Sonic haven't been popular since the 6th generation, and Sonic, although a household name, haven't been doing super hot with the quality and reception of their games since that same time period, although things seem to be changing there at Sega. And do I even need to mention what the Crash situation is?

Kirby is a 2D platformer franchise, but they did release that 3D game a couple years back which sold pretty well, so I will give you that. I'm actually curious now on wether Astrobot really had a better launch, because Forgotten Land is sitting on over 7.5m copies sold as of March 2024. I think comparing those two would be way more interesting than comparing Astro to Mario or Zelda.

Opencritic is way newer than Metacritic, how can you say it's the most critically acclaimed Sony game of all time while using a site that doesn't have data on most Sony games to compare it with. Even TLoU that is as new as 2013 isn't there, only the remastered version.

you're getting a little defensive Lol. I can just change it to say "most acclaimed game in over a decade (according to OpenCritic)" if that would make you happy?

What am I being defensive about? Where did that even came from, lol.

Anyway, I won't be either happy or unhappy, you don't need to edit your posts, was just pointing you it was wrong at first and after your reply that using Opencritic to claim an "ever" on this matter was not the best choice, that's all.

Who told you it's Sony most critically acclaimed game of all time? Lol.

Having a 94 on Metacritic it matches God of War original Greek debut game and it's original Norse follow up, loses to The Last of Us, Little Big Planet and Gran Turismo debut games, also loses to Gran Turismo 3 and Uncharted 2.

Based on accolades and general awards it will probably not come even close to The Last of Us, and TLoU released on the same year as the most popular game of all time, GTA V.

That being said, 1.5M sales is in the range I expected, and I do not expect it to have massive legs just by itself, as I said, I would be happy if the game reaches 5M sales in the end.

Amazing game, definitely deserved way more, but there is nothing surprising here.