Agreed, personally, it felt like BOTW but worse to me. I didn't really like a lot of the new locations they added or the new abilities. Especially the depths, I hated the depths lol.
This isn't strictly accurate. During the last fiscal year, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, BOTW, and Super Mario Odyssey all had significantly better Q4s than they had Q2s. Animal Crossing and Smash Ultimate were the only exceptions, and in Ultimate's case it wasn't by much.
Not flawed. It just mean that Totk still have one holiday season to get a boost. Though I expect 3M at max as I don't see it getting a boost like Mario games due to the nature of the game and target demographics.
Don't have much knowledge about Pokemon sales but people always tell me their legs aren't strong. So it came out as a surprise Totk selling less than it. Personally I thought it was going to reach ~1.5M even aware of the overshipment.
Real Square-Enix behavior. I expected better of the community.
who are you referring to? I don't see anyone on this site saying selling 20m is a disappointment.
So much this lol. BotW had the honeymoon allegations, nitpicked to hell and back in 2017. It wasnāt till it started sweeping GOTY that I truly believed in its strong longevity as one of the GOATs, despite the initial amazing reviews already saying it.
exactly. i really don't understand how people are (purposefully??) misconstruing your/my/others argument(s) as legitimately bashing the game's sales - and still continuing to do so! it's just simply a different opinion and expectation of what will happen in the end based off of how we are interpreting the current data. nothin' more, nothin' less.
The last two PokƩmon gens have had very good legs, especially Scar/Vio. Those games are acting like BOTW for PokƩmon in terms of evergreen .
Is it not? Every popular and well received game has a vocal faction decrying it. this gets said a lot about about games like Mario Odyssey and BOTW and then when people run polls they crush the completion.
I think they meant if they thought BotWās reception was all sunshine and rainbows and didnāt have a vocal minority compared to TotK, which BotW absolutely did.
kirby is much bigger then metroid lol
What they said...
You can't have a thread about BOTW without someone mentioning the "objectively broken design", kvetching about the weapon degradation, whining about the OST not being to their liking, etc....
polygon.chart
Finished the game recently and absolutely loved it. Everyone I know loved it too. The negative online discourse is definitely from a vocal minority
It absolutely blows my mind how well it continues to sell. Over 1.5 million units sold in just the last quarter? That's utterly bananas. It's basically the Nintendo equivalent of GTA V: nearly a decade old yet is still selling exceptionally well.
There's always a detractors when a game deviates drastically like BOTW.
That's also my perception. As someone who dislikes both(when compared to other zelda) I feel like I was more in the minority when it was about BOTW than TOTK. TOTK feels more like old Zelda cycle, where people would jump at you if you criticized the game at the launch week but they would reflect better on it later.
Sure, those people exist. But thereās a bunch of people who do prefer TotK, even some who didnāt like BotW and did like TotK. TotK has won every poll against BotW on here and ERA, at least from what Iāve seen. I donāt know where yāall are getting this.
Are these meant to be parody posts? It has sold nearly 20 million copies in the time it took BOTW to sell 5 and by all accounts the numbers for this quarter are dramatically higher than what has been shown due to excess stock at launch.
I really donāt know about this at all. As someone who was actively part of that discourse BotW discussion got very heated for a while post release. Weāre even at the same āthe honeymoon period is overā point that people unironically believed for BotW. Iād be careful conflating anecdotal evidence from our own bubbles for what the actual reception is. If you did a favourite Zelda poll now here or on Era TotK might not win, but Iām pretty sure it would be overwhelmingly be top 2 with BotW.
To raise the volume further, that group has also been somewhat antagonised by the belittling of said first with calls of "obsolete" "tech demo" "worthless". So it's not just being grumpy they didn't get to join the party, it's defending their own party.
There is literally nothing to defend. It's sold 2/3rds of BOTW's nigh 7 years worth of sales in 5 months lmao This quarters result has been skewed due to excess stock.
There's probably a post of mine on each of those threads...XD
wait for the next fiscal report to know it sales data.
will sales of Legend of Zelda/Metroid games increase substancialy, if theres a tv series/movie for this franchises,
I donāt even like to view it as āteamsā to be honest.
Tears of the Kingdom was made in a way, that make it harder to create theories about the game, one of the reasons Breath of the Wild was so successful, was theres still today people make videos speculation/theorizing aspects of the game, i saw very few videos in regards to Tears of the Kingdom, also lack of expansion pass/DLC, lead to less hype for the game
mfers somehow calling 19 million copies sold before the holiday a flop
No, you see, pikmin 4 was taken off the market after exactly 2 months.
Namco published the latter
Thanks - do you know where that was published? I can't seem to find it.
