tbf I was also correct lol (as were >50% of poll voters), though my expectation was for EoW to at least compete with Astro. This is a complete blow out in reception.

Lots of people thought astro bot would have a better reception 

For critical reception the writings were on the wall for everyone who have actually played an Astrobot game before, which I believe few people here who voted have since Rescue Mission was a VR title and Playroom was only a demo, they were a mostly niche but really high quality games

Echoes of Window being mostly experimental spin off developed by a second party studio surely make it riskier, since they were likely experimenting gameplay mechanics that might not be as refined and well tested as standard 2D Zelda mechanics


Sales though still a very question mark. I voted for Astrobot, thinking positive WOM could help its sales in Q4, but Zelda is so far the only Nintendo game this Q4 so it will also likely to get heavy sales during Christmas

58,21% of voters said Astrobot would have better reception, an actual majority 

I think sales is tough, both games will do 5m+ but Zelda could potentially do like 3m in its launch week alone. 

I think Zelda will be relatively front loaded outside of Japan whereas Astro will be the opposite, we'll have to wait til the end of the year to know for sure. Astro returning to No.1 in UK retail in its 3rd week despite being a digitally driven release bodes well for its legs in Europe/US. 

But Zelda was winning the reception votes until Astro Bot came out and scored 94-95. Nothing wrong with that though.

Didn't know that lol. They should have closed the poll the day Astrobot embargo was lifted ao we could get a more accurate representation 

I'm just messing around. 

As the person responsible for this poll, I’ve been keeping a close eye on the numbers: During the first 48hr, Astro was sweeping Zelda in the polls. Mid-day of the third day, Zelda got a massive boost out of nowhere (which I believe to have almost certainly been somebody spamming the polls). The numbers stayed as they were until Astro’s embargo was lifted, at which point the polls would flip to favor Astro in reception.

Yeah, quite clear astrobot will end up ahead in terms of critical reception. Sales wise echoes will be higher. We don't know how much astrobot has sold (officially) and zelda is one of Nintendo's biggest ips, although this is a smaller game comparable to links awakening which sold around 6.5 million as of December 2022.