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Forums - Sales - Astro-Bot or Zelda EoW? Clash of the 2024 September Titans

 

Which will sell more? Which will perform better with critics?

Astro Bot (Sales & Critical Reception) 20 19.05%
 
Zelda (Sales & Critical Reception) 36 34.29%
 
Astro Bot (Sales), Zelda (Critical Reception) 3 2.86%
 
Astro Bot (Critical Reception), Zelda (Sales) 46 43.81%
 
Total:105
Eric2048 on 09 February 2025
Sogreblute said:
Sephiran said:

Sony won't start porting their first party games to Switch 2, that would lessen the need to get a Playstation and will just make a competitor console more appealing.

They put Lego Horizon on Switch. A lot of people are thinking Sony will put some of their games on Switch 2. I think they will.

I don't think Lego Horizon is enough evidence that they will start bringing their first party games to Switch 2. The reason it's on Switch is more to do with it being lego. Those games always come to Nintendo consoles. If they actually bring a mainline Horizon game or any other first party title to Switch 2 then i'll believe that they want to bring more games to Switch.



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killer7 on 11 February 2025
Eric2048 said:
Sogreblute said:

They put Lego Horizon on Switch. A lot of people are thinking Sony will put some of their games on Switch 2. I think they will.

I don't think Lego Horizon is enough evidence that they will start bringing their first party games to Switch 2. The reason it's on Switch is more to do with it being lego. Those games always come to Nintendo consoles. If they actually bring a mainline Horizon game or any other first party title to Switch 2 then i'll believe that they want to bring more games to Switch.

With this theory in mind, Metroid Prine 4: Beyond, (a potential F-Zero),Eternal Darkness... should be ported to PS5... but we all know that will never happen. I do think this idea is too outlandish...



killer7 on 11 February 2025
firebush03 said:
Sephiran said:

Sony won't start porting their first party games to Switch 2, that would lessen the need to get a Playstation and will just make a competitor console more appealing.

^This. While I’m not a PC gamer myself, i’d imagine that most PC gamers aren’t coming to console. They would sooner emulate the game than ever consider purchasing the system itself, whether that be to run their games at a consistent 60/120fps, having their library centralized in a single system, etc. Sony recognizes this, and chooses not to wage that war by simply porting their games over. This goes in contrast with console gamers, who would be willing purchase a PS5 (and not emulate) in order to play — for example — God of War.

As someone working in a store, i highly doubt that. If there is a game someone likes and it sure as hell never releases on their plattform (in this case PC), over 90% would not go the comolicated route to fake run a game called "emmulation" wich sucks in many cases (games have slowdowns, crash...) they would go the easy way and just buy the fucking console and the game they prefere (f.e. Switch with MK, Zelda...). It has nothing to do with "PC Master Race" thats the nature of humans (i have to own whaz i want!) Believe me we even have costumers owning high end PCs buying a PS5 for Spiderman, despite the fact everyone knew it won't be on PC for at least a year or more... For a PC gamer, who spend 1000s of $ for a new GPU with hardly any difference, 500€ is nothing! 



IcaroRibeiro on 13 June 2026

Last update was 4 million for Zelda

There has been no update for Astrobot since the 2.3 million update over one year ago, so I believe even if it reached 3 million it's still a far cry from 4 million

Echoes won this sales battle

This is quite surprising. GOTY winners always enjoy great legs

My only estimation is there is indeed no huge audience for 70 USD platformers outside Mario fans (which must not have a Playstation)

Later this year there is Rayman Retold, it has much lower price compared to Astro and I believe it will sell at least twice as much

Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 13 June 2026

firebush03 on 13 June 2026
IcaroRibeiro said:

Last update was 4 million for Zelda. There has been no update for Astrobot aince the 2.3 million update over one yeat ago, so I believe even if it reached 3 million it's still a far cry from 4 million. Echoes won this sales battle. This is quite surprising. GOTY winners always enjoy great legs
. My only estimation is there is indeed no huge audience for 70 USD platformers outside Mario fans (which must not have a Playstation). Later this year there is Rayman Retold, it has much lower price compared to Astro and I believe it will sell at least twice as much

Rayman will sell well because Ubi is going to slash the price to like $10USD across all platforms (PC being the most notable). Astro at its steady $60USD price tag could never compete.

Also, I personally do not believe this battle is done. As you said, GotY winners have strong legs— Just look at the most recent week of JP sales for Astro, sitting as the only PS5 software in top ten IIRC. In due time, whether it be through a data breach (e.g. like what happen with Insomiac not too long ago) or a new credible outlet emerging (e.g. CESA), the truth should be revealed in due time whether Astro or Zelda pulled ahead.

...Though Zelda hitting 4.09M as of March 31st 2025 is admittedly a pretty high bar to overcome for a 3D platformer on a system with a *very* small platformer consumer base. My guess is Zelda will be looking at possibly upwards of 6M LTD whereas Astro could be anywhere from 3M to 8M... which okay maybe this battle is kinda over lol. IDK I'm still holding out hope for Astro: It's never wise to bet against a GOTY winner.



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Otter on 13 June 2026
IcaroRibeiro said:

Last update was 4 million for Zelda

There has been no update for Astrobot aince the 2.3 million update over one yeat ago, so I believe even if it reached 3 million it's still a far cry from 4 million

Echoes won this sales battle

This is quite surprising. GOTY winners always enjoy great legs

My only estimation is there is indeed no huge audience for 70 USD platformers outside Mario fans (which must not have a Playstation)

Later this year there is Rayman Retold, it has much lower price compared to Astro and I believe it will sell at least twice as much

There has never been a 2.3million update for Astro



IcaroRibeiro on 13 June 2026
firebush03 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

Last update was 4 million for Zelda. There has been no update for Astrobot aince the 2.3 million update over one yeat ago, so I believe even if it reached 3 million it's still a far cry from 4 million. Echoes won this sales battle. This is quite surprising. GOTY winners always enjoy great legs
. My only estimation is there is indeed no huge audience for 70 USD platformers outside Mario fans (which must not have a Playstation). Later this year there is Rayman Retold, it has much lower price compared to Astro and I believe it will sell at least twice as much

Rayman will sell well because Ubi is going to slash the price to like $10USD across all platforms (PC being the most notable). Astro at its steady $60USD price tag could never compete.

Also, I personally do not believe this battle is done. As you said, GotY winners have strong legs— Just look at the most recent week of JP sales for Astro, sitting as the only PS5 software in top ten IIRC. In due time, whether it be through a data breach (e.g. like what happen with Insomiac not too long ago) or a new credible outlet emerging (e.g. CESA), the truth should be revealed in due time whether Astro or Zelda pulled ahead.

...Though Zelda hitting 4.09M as of March 31st 2025 is admittedly a pretty high bar to overcome for a 3D platformer on a system with a *very* small platformer consumer base. My guess is Zelda will be looking at possibly upwards of 6M LTD whereas Astro could be anywhere from 3M to 8M... which okay maybe this battle is kinda over lol. IDK I'm still holding out hope for Astro: It's never wise to bet against a GOTY winner.

I think Rayman will outsell Astro even before it gets discounted since it's 40 USD. Astro was 70 at launch 

Honestly 40 USD is a good price for a platformer. Most platformers take like 10~15h to beat so 40 USD looks about right to price them 



Otter on 13 June 2026
firebush03 said:

Rayman will sell well because Ubi is going to slash the price to like $10USD across all platforms (PC being the most notable). Astro at its steady $60USD price tag could never compete.

Also, I personally do not believe this battle is done. As you said, GotY winners have strong legs— Just look at the most recent week of JP sales for Astro, sitting as the only PS5 software in top ten IIRC. In due time, whether it be through a data breach (e.g. like what happen with Insomiac not too long ago) or a new credible outlet emerging (e.g. CESA), the truth should be revealed in due time whether Astro or Zelda pulled ahead.

...Though Zelda hitting 4.09M as of March 31st 2025 is admittedly a pretty high bar to overcome for a 3D platformer on a system with a *very* small platformer consumer base. My guess is Zelda will be looking at possibly upwards of 6M LTD whereas Astro could be anywhere from 3M to 8M... which okay maybe this battle is kinda over lol. IDK I'm still holding out hope for Astro: It's never wise to bet against a GOTY winner.

Japan is a good reference for Astro.

At the point at which it was reported to have sold 1.5m (the only official figure from Sony), it had only sold 30k in Japan. It's now passed 100k and this physical only (game was understocked during its first week) That's more than a 3x multiple despite not featuring in the top 30 for most of the year.

I don't think we have any idea how Astro has sold. It reappeared in most global charts this past Christmas (2025)...It could be at 3m but likely is a lot higher than that. If we extrapolated on Japanese numbers it's around 5m lol



Kyuu on 13 June 2026

Astro Bot seemed to have sold faster and charted higher than Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart which sold 4 million copies in two years. It should top 5 million lifetime.



rapsuperstar31 on 13 June 2026

I enjoyed both games.