Skyward Sword Sold 3.67 Million Copies on a console of 100+ Million install base

Yes, after I played a good portion of the game and hated it, I wish it was different. Seems kind of obvious.

Yeah the PS2 also didn't have a lot of extremely high selling games. I think Skyward Sword did fine, although it would have been nicer if it had done a ~little~ better. Maybe 5+ million.

For what it's worth, I really liked Skyward Sword. It doesn't compete with the more elite-ranking Zelda games for me, but it was still a great game. Wasn't really a fan of the motion controls though.

The hate skyward receives is such hyperbole. If the game had released as not a zelda game by title, people would praise it as a great game.

@brah4ever said:

and yet we are to believe that a cross-system title such as Breath of The Wild will actually sell NX's.

I don't understand your logic at all. Skyward Sword was only released on Wii. In what sense does Skyward Sword's sales numbers on Wii have an analogy to Breath of the Wild and NX?

The better comparison would surely be Twilight Princess, which was released on both GameCube and Wii. Then you're comparing apples with apples at least. It's worth noting that Twilight Princess apparently had a 3/4 attach rate with every new Wii sold in the launch week. In other words, there's very good reason to believe that Twilight Princess was moving hardware on both the Wii and GameCube fronts.

Yeah they should've released Skyward Sword on the Wii U and up the resolution. Hell if i can do it on dolphin emulator I'm sure the Wii U could've played it at least at 720. No one bought the Wii U because it didn't have any launch games. Zelda would have sold more consoles for sure. They should learn from the Wii. When the new console is released it should be bundled with a fun game like wii sports and also a mario game and zelda game should be released the same day as the NX. Can't sell consoles without games.

SS kaunched at the shittest possible time... And it was still good.

Nintendo wii was a great console.

Years ago I used to play MH tri online all day long good old days almost forgot them since last years Ive been working so much.

Last zelda I played was twilight princess :P

Nope, the game will still suck even without the Zelda name.

They do not normally bundle every copy of the game as it drives the price up for those who don't need the peripheral (from buying a previous bundle).

San Andreas sold 22 million across multiple platforms. The PS2 version alone sold 17 million, which is even less. That's the highest sales number any PS2 release ever got.

Games today get bigger sales because of multi-plat releases, reaching out to multiple install bases with hundreds of millions of users (many of whom double-dip and triple-dip). If you were to divide multi-plat sales across platforms, then the sales of games today wouldn't look anymore impressive.

The bolded sums up Cows.

The point is that the Zelda franchise is not the fantastically successful system seller that Sheep think it is. It won't save the Wii U or the NX.

@djura said:

@brah4ever said:

and yet we are to believe that a cross-system title such as Breath of The Wild will actually sell NX's.

I don't understand your logic at all.

@skektek:The point is that the Zelda franchise is not the fantastically successful system seller that Sheep think it is. It won't save the Wii U or the NX.

Who is implying that it will save either? And why does the NX need "saving" when it's not even out on the market yet? It's just non-sequitur followed by non-sequitur here, honestly.

Also, let's bear in mind that the OP said nothing about whether or not Zelda is a "fantastically successful system seller"; they simply implied that Breath of the Wild won't play a role in shifting NX hardware. Well, that's a pretty big and fairly irrational bet.

And as I said in my previous post, it's a totally false analogy. Skyward Sword is not remotely a good comparison point, because a) it was never released on two platforms and b) it was released at the end of the Wii's lifecycle, at a point where the Wii hardware had shifted a massive number of units globally. It's fair to say that most people who would ever have wanted a Wii probably had one by the time Skyward Sword came out, so it therefore makes sense that Skyward Sword was never likely to shift a massive number of consoles in the market.

As I said, it's probably better to consider Twilight Princess as a relevant example, because it more closely fits the launch scenario of Breath of the Wild.