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[Flutta]

That's insane!
I did my part.

Lol you went all in, sheeez!

How much did all that cost you?

Deserved, game is a blast. Haven’t had this much fun playing game i a long ass time. Nintendo is the only big pub left who knows how to make fun games

 

[AJUMP23]

With a $70 cost, does Nintendo keep $40 of every physical sale and $70 of every digital sale?

 

[mckmas8808]

Another great job by devs that believe in selling strong single player games!

 

[GymWolf]

That looks hideous compared to the current style.

No, it doesn't.

 

[TrollFAQs]

Why would anyone who didn't play BOTW play this one? In addition to costing $10 more and being on one console instead of two.

 

[Exede]

Finished it today, absolute fantastic game.

 

[BlackTron]

Why would anyone who didn't play BOTW play this one? In addition to costing $10 more and being on one console instead of two.

BOTW is just a tech demo of this game.

 

[BlackTron]

Remember how Android ran like shit on phones during the mid-2010s? Every Android phone back then dropped frames when you opened the app drawer. The APU in the Switch is from that era. Google couldn't get Android to run smoothly on ARM-based APUs circa 2015, but Nintendo out here in 2023 like we good.

I really think this game cinches Nintendo as top software master of the world. On every level from design to bare coding to selling it. They kinda already were but at least there was a contest before.

 

[Musashipan]

Zelda V

Lol you went all in, sheeez!

How much did all that cost you?

Deserved, game is a blast. Haven’t had this much fun playing game i a long ass time. Nintendo is the only big pub left who knows how to make fun games

Switch Oled Totk: $470
Zelda Collectors Edition: $175
Totk pro controller:$99
Totk case: $34
Totk Amiibo: $22

So $800 CAD + taxes
Roughly $592 USD

Haven't even started playing yet.
I'm doing botw again first.

 

[Mossybrew]

Enough with the crucifixions and rotisseries, we need more wholesome treatment of Koroks

 

[small_law]

I really think this game cinches Nintendo as top software master of the world. On every level from design to bare coding to selling it. They kinda already were but at least there was a contest before.

Agreed. This is a technical masterpiece. That's what's astonishing about it. The level of polish of this game is beyond compare.

Have you encountered any bugs? Has anyone? I haven't encountered single a bug. Zero.

You got so many devs asking for 250 GB installs and 30 series cards just to run their shitty PC ports at sub 60 FPS. It's like I said, this is Nintendo flexing nuts on trash studios that ship broken games.

 

[Flutta]

Zelda V


Switch Oled Totk: $470
Zelda Collectors Edition: $175
Totk pro controller:$99
Totk case: $34
Totk Amiibo: $22

So $800 CAD + taxes
Roughly $592 USD

Haven't even started playing yet.
I'm doing botw again first.

That’s ain’t that bad tbh. Thought it would be more for some reason.

Hmm you’ll prob burn yourself out playing BOTW first then ToTk after.

Both games take alot of time to playthrough.

 

[Musashipan]

That’s ain’t that bad tbh. Thought it would be more for some reason.

Hmm you’ll prob burn yourself out playing BOTW first then ToTk after.

Both games take alot of time to playthrough.

I'm a madman, was hoping to do 100% b4 starting totk, but I'm not sure if I can wait lol

 

[Flutta]

I'm a madman, was hoping to do 100% b4 starting totk, but I'm not sure if I can wait lol

Lol just play ToTk instead. You can always play BOTW later if you really must

 

[Flutta]

Another great job by devs that believe in selling strong single player games!

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

10 million is honestly like, no work at all. With zero marketing at all, There were at minimum 10 million BotW fans who are all-in on a direct sequel (myself included).

Hitting 20 million, or heaven forbid the holy grail of 25 mil or 30 mil for a direct sequel, in the late stage of a console lifecycle, on a single platform, that’s the real open question.

It’s possible, but it seems like the game will settle out on Switch around 15-20 mil.

If they re-release it as an upgraded port for new hardware, it’ll absolutely exceed OG BotW sales.

 

[Musashipan]

Lol just play ToTk instead. You can always play BOTW later if you really must

I'm afraid I won't be able to go back once I start totk

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

With a $70 cost, does Nintendo keep $40 of every physical sale and $70 of every digital sale?

It’s more complicated than that. They don’t make the full $70 even if they sell it through their own digital storefront.

But their margin is higher for digital goods versus physical goods, yes.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Finished it today, absolute fantastic game.

Can you define finished?

Curious because it seems like the game would be 2-3x more content than BotW. With sky map + revamped ground map + caves/ caverns + depths layer

 

[ADiTAR]

It’s more complicated than that. They don’t make the full $70 even if they sell it through their own digital storefront.

why's that?

 

[AJUMP23]

why's that?

There are distribution cost even with digital. Like hosting and bandwidth.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

There are distribution cost even with digital. Like hosting and bandwidth.

Yeah. just basic cost of goods. Just because they’re the retailer in a certain case, they still don’t make $70.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

why's that?

Cost of sales. The margin is probably really high if it’s their own digital storefront, like the eShop. But point of sale cards at retail would count as digital. And retailers take a % on those, same as physical boxed copies.

 

[Flutta]

I'm afraid I won't be able to go back once I start totk

You already beat the game once, Brühl

So how far in are you anyways?

 

[Tams]

Remember when half this forum was saying they needed to show more prerelease to convince people?

Go look at the Switch OT first page.

Proper hall of shame and crow eating.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Played some docked with a dualsense controller and it felt a lot better than the regular joycons while portable. (dont have a pro controller)

might grab that 8bitdo ultimate controller since the totk pro controller seems perpetually out of stock.

 

[Deerock71]

GTA sold more, than there is switches.

Nintendo might find it in themselves to bring this to other Nintendo hardware in the future.

 

[Woopah]

10 million is honestly like, no work at all. With zero marketing at all, There were at minimum 10 million BotW fans who are all-in on a direct sequel (myself included).

Hitting 20 million, or heaven forbid the holy grail of 25 mil or 30 mil for a direct sequel, in the late stage of a console lifecycle, on a single platform, that’s the real open question.

It’s possible, but it seems like the game will settle out on Switch around 15-20 mil.

If they re-release it as an upgraded port for new hardware, it’ll absolutely exceed OG BotW sales.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet also hit 10 million in days and are now at 22 million. ToTK should follow a similar trend (though its holiday boost will come later).

 

[Exede]

Finished in seeing the credits run. But theres so so much more to do!!!

 

[FunkMiller]

Wow. Not unexpected, but bloody hell, that's impressive.

I just think it's a crying shame all those ToTK sales won't translate into any Switch console sales. So sad.

 

[Impotaku]

Go look at the Switch OT first page.

Proper hall of shame and crow eating.

It’s fun to go back and laugh at how shit gaf is at predicting when it comes to Nintendo. They are the ones in that thread that are still in denial at how hard switch has steamrolled everything.

Remember switch doesn’t count as it’s not a real console & has no 3rd party games.

 

[Lasha]

Yeah. just basic cost of goods. Just because they’re the retailer in a certain case, they still don’t make $70.

Marginal cost of a digital good is zero in a perfect market and functionally zero for selling software at the scale Nintendo does.

 

[IAmRei]

I also remember some folks were saying they weren't sure it would surpass BotW in sales. lol

also switch sales back then

 

[GigaBowser]

10 million is honestly like, no work at all. With zero marketing at all, There were at minimum 10 million BotW fans who are all-in on a direct sequel (myself included).

Hitting 20 million, or heaven forbid the holy grail of 25 mil or 30 mil for a direct sequel, in the late stage of a console lifecycle, on a single platform, that’s the real open question.

It’s possible, but it seems like the game will settle out on Switch around 15-20 mil.

If they re-release it as an upgraded port for new hardware, it’ll absolutely exceed OG BotW sales.

Game is so viral right now I tinks your in for a surprise hahahahaha

 

[blacktout]

I just think it's a crying shame all those ToTK sales won't translate into any Switch console sales. So sad.

The TotK OLED boosted Switch console sales in both Japan and North America, and that was before the game even released. It's not going to have the massive impact on hardware sales that BotW likely did at launch, but it's definitely selling Switches.

 

[Mozza]

Go look at the Switch OT first page.

Proper hall of shame and crow eating.

That has to be the most legendary NeoGaf thread of all time.

 

[small_law]

I finally found something to complain about. They blatantly repeated a side quest without changing anything from BotW. Kind of a minor gripe but you would think they would either take it out or change it a bit.

Spoiler: Side Quest

It's called "the horse god". Bottom left corner of the map. There's a shrine there that you can't access because a guy has a crystal and wants to see a horse before he'll give the crystal to you. You have to find the horse, tame it and bring it back to him.0

I remember that side quest because I screwed it up and had to go back and forth to the guy an extra time. That area of the map is kind of a dead end and not easy to transverse. I also farmed enemies down there.

It's the first instance of that I've seen. I haven't dug up a video from BotW to compare but I'm pretty certain of this.

 

[The Skull]

Deserved. It's been an absolute joy to play. I'm about 30 hours in and feel like I've barely scratched the surface of it.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

Just as a reminder, back when BotW first launched, it had 102% attachment rate. As in people were buying BotW before they could get a Switch to play it on!
The attachment rate story
To think there are people who are saying TotK isn't worth 70 dollars... Nintendo know you would pay for quality entertainment, and that is the core of their company. Deliver the games, and the customers will come.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

When you realize that TotK's install size is less than 17GB and it's running on a tablet with a ten-year-old mobile processor

8 years old, the Tegra X1 debuted in 2015

 

[DryvBy]

After putting in close to 40 hours now, I'm going to say this game has made BotW feel like a tech demo to this masterpiece. I wasn't even that big on BotW originally but they just masterclassed this game.

 

[brian0057]

I honestly don't get the hate towards the Koroks.
If it's because they're needed to increase the size of your inventory, you stumble upon like 200 of them just by the exploration you're already doing.
They're incredibly easy to find and, unless you wanna get all 900 of them, you don't need to get that many to max out the slots.

 

[Fredrik]

That's insane!
I did my part.

Awesome!

I opened the wallet wide too, my kids plus wife and me are all playing TOTK. Bought 2 new Switch consoles today. I got the TOTK OLED for myself, just did the save transfer and is downloading TOTK now. Nintendo is unstoppable right now!

 

[BlackTron]

I honestly don't get the hate towards the Koroks.
If it's because they're needed to increase the size of your inventory, you stumble upon like 200 of them just by the exploration you're already doing.
They're incredibly easy to find and, unless you wanna get all 900 of them, you don't need to get that many to max out the slots.

Yeah before ever having actually bothered to look for a Korok seed I had enough for 3 weapon slots and one each bow/shield slot. I just didn't know where Hestu was to trade them in.

 

[bender]

Korok seeds are one of my favorite things in these games.

 

[Thaedolus]

So BOTW/TOTK (2017-2023) account for almost 30% of all Zelda games ever sold?



Anyone hoping for a "traditional zelda" can forget about it.

Meh, Nintendo always is trying new things with Zelda and releasing stuff like Link’s Awakening Switch on the side. I wouldn’t expect another direct sequel.

What would actually be amazing is a new take on the physics puzzle solving in VR, but that’s never gonna happen.

 

[Gambit2483]

Meh, Nintendo always is trying new things with Zelda and releasing stuff like Link’s Awakening Switch on the side. I wouldn’t expect another direct sequel.

What would actually be amazing is a new take on the physics puzzle solving in VR, but that’s never gonna happen.

I think most people would be OK with their "next Zelda" game being more of a spin-off (maybe 2D) or experimental type game. After TOTK they more than deserve it..