The Switch sold 906,000 units in the United States during March, Nintendo has revealed.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..
I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
The best prices we've found this Black Friday for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom as well as the previous game, Breath of the Wild.
The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has again commented on the possibility of revisiting the style of past entries in the series – but there are no plans as of now. Speaking with RTL Nieuws, Aonuma said that games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were possible because of what came before them.
Which is very sad. I still wish we could get a zelda like twilight princess, the dark tone and theme in the traditional style. But times have changed and the masses prefer open world sandbox. Smh. Perhaps we can get a proper hd remake of ocarina of time some day.
I played 100 hours of Tears of the Kingdom, enjoyed it, but ready for a game like that next.
If they can bounce between 2D and 3D Mario games, they can bounce between classic and modern Zelda games too. I thought this was a given when the Switch combined a handheld with a primary console.
Then this is where I part ways. I won't disagree with anyone who says that the old formula was getting stale. And I do think BoTW in a few ways was a step in the right direction, but there's way too much good that was left with the old formula in the transition.
Well that sucks. I still love the classic formula WAY more than the Hyrule Engineering Simulator
Didnt even reached 1M in a whole month. Both PS4 and XboxOne sold 1M in just 24hrs.
"Zelda is gonna overshadow Horizon Zero Dawn easily."
Sees both March sales*
(Shit! I forgot PS4's Install base) Aah of course Horizon was gonna sell more. PS4 has a bigger install base
Ok I had to get that out of the way. As a fan of BotW I'm happy for the milestone. Well deserved!
Not bad at all.
I'm interested to see how Nintendos upcoming exclusives affect sales. The Mario Kart series has always been popular and Splatoon did very good for a new IP on the Wii U, but this is where we see if it has system seller power.
ARMS could go either way. I didn't expect Splatoon to sell over 4m so you never know how well this could do.
So Breath of the Wild is the fastest selling Nintendo launch game ever and the fastest selling Zelda game ever. It's also got a 102% attach rate in the US.
I'm just going to leave this here: http://imgur.com/a/LUt35
So the Switch is estimated to be around 2.5 mil worldwide. This year Mario Kart should add another million or two to that, Splatoon will likely be another million (thanks to Japan), and Mario will probably add another couple million. Add in the million or two for normal first year sales and the Switch should have no problem hitting 8 million in its first year. With a Pokemon thrown in there it may cross 10 million.
Now that's not much compared to the PS4, but it's a major step up from the Wii U, which still hasn't hit 14 million sold (as far as we know). The Switch should have no problem selling in its first year what the Wii U did in its first two.