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[Gambit2483]

Have you seen the last gameplay showcase?

After watching that showcase I just don't see how this game is supposed to run on Switch. After seeing Pokemon Scarlett/Violet (yes I know the dev is trash) running on Switch it feels almost impossible...unless they seriously dumb down a lot of the geometry/physics/textures/models/ lighting effects etc. etc....there's just no way

 

[remember_spinal]

 

[Flabagast]

Yes. You can fly around, go to a specific place to fight, and create your own room where you can play with animals. Are you able to Abra Cadabra any person in the game? Make anything in the game float? I still didn't get what exactly is the game besides being open world and offering you a lot of options to do stuff, something is missing for me. It does look like an Assasin's Creed type of game where you just go about and do things, I guess for me there's no there there. Maybe another trailer will tie all the pieces together.

You sum it up very well. The game seems to do a lot of things but at the same time it has not shown any sense of direction or what will be the main adventure whatsoever. It is really weird, rarely has a game shown so much before release while telling so little about what the core experience will consist in. It is not really reassuring imho

 

[Hoppa]

Zelda. I can see it at #1 on the Nintendo e shop top selling for at least a year easily. Hogwarts will lose steam in a month

 

[Griffon]

Who says it's not? How about we wait to actually hear from Nintendo regarding Tears of the Kingdom before we assume it's not launching with new hardware...as it should.

The brand new nintendo hardware releasing this May? With less than 4 months of lead time and completely skipping June/E3-type shows? Nothing but wishful thinking. It would be nice if I was wrong but it's not realistic.

To be clear, the only game that interest me out of both is Zelda.
But without a new console to go with I don't believe it'll ever scratch BotW's insane reach.

 

[ADiTAR]

The brand new nintendo hardware releasing this May? With less than 4 months of lead time and completely skipping June/E3-type shows? Nothing but wishful thinking. It would be nice if I was wrong but it's not realistic.

The Switch was announced in October, presented in January, and released in March. While we knew about NX, the mainstream people didn't. Not to mention Nintendo announced and released games in less than 3-4 months. This isn't 2000s when you needed a long news cycle, not to mention TikTok people need thing right away.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Betting the farm on Tears of the Kingdom. I'll even take an avatar bet.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

First we need to see if Hogwards will be any good, to be a part of this conversation.

Zelda will more likely be good game.

 

[Tams]

The Switch was announced in October, presented in January, and released in March. While we knew about NX, the mainstream people didn't. Not to mention Nintendo announced and released games in less than 3-4 months. This isn't 2000s when you needed a long news cycle, not to mention TikTok people need thing right away.

The normal Switch TotK special edition has been leaked.

No Switch successor is coming with TotK. Give it up.

 

[ikbalCO]

I can not wait to play hogwarts legacy, pre ordered it a month ago.

But i bought a switch for tears of the kingdom, thing i wouldnt do for any other game.

So, hope thats enough to explain my position.

 

[ADiTAR]

The normal Switch TotK special edition has been leaked.

No Switch successor is coming with TotK. Give it up.

I wasn't suggesting there will be, because yes, the moment I saw the leak I knew those dreams were gone.

I was just mentioning it's possible for Nintendo to do a half a year of promotion for new hardware.

 

[John Bilbo]

The normal Switch TotK special edition has been leaked.

No Switch successor is coming with TotK. Give it up.

Breath of the Wild Remastered + Tears of the Kingdom double pack releasing on the next system a year after the release of Tears of the Kingdom?

 

[Airbus Jr]

Zelda ToK will break record both sales and GOTY award at the same time

Almost any zelda game are critically aclaimed game with a few exceptions

Hogwarts were made by Ubisoft so 50/50 chance it can be good or bad can go both ways

Not to mention the purple haired community will bombard hogwarts legacy metacritic review so im certain hogwarts metascore will be lower than zelda tok

 

[kapshin]

Hogwarts is on like six platforms Zelda is on one.

 

[sandbood]

Hogwarts is on like six platforms Zelda is on one.

Doesn't mean that much at the end. Pokémon S/V is going to outsell Elden Rings in less than 2 months on the market despite Elden Rings available on 5 platforms.

 

[Baki]

Zelda sold 27M units over a period of 5 years. Hogwarts is releasing on all platforms but has a delayed release for last-gen. I think Hogwarts wins, even if the delayed release will hurt sales on the Switch and its success in Japan. This is all dependant on Hogwarts being a 8/10 solid game with good word of mouth.

 

[Elysion]

I think we should also keep in mind that there‘s a good chance that TotK will sell less than BotW, perhaps significantly so. That‘s a pretty common phenomenon with big Nintendo IPs, and is probably one of the reasons why many of them only get one game per generation. Skyward Sword sold significantly less than Twilight Princess, just like Mario Galaxy 2 sold significantly less than Galaxy 1, or like Majora‘s Mask sold significantly less than OoT. And I have no doubt that, if IPs like Mario Kart or Smash Bros had more than one game per gen, that the subsequent entries would sell less than the first ones. This isn’t the case for all Nintendo IPs, but certainly for the big ones.

Furthermore, BotW was a very unique game that launched alongside a new system, and was also the very first open world (3d) Zelda game. TotK on the other hand will be a direct sequel, and the novelty of BotW‘s unique gameplay systems has worn off by now. If TotK ‚only‘ manages to sell 20 million copies for example, as opposed to BotW‘s almost 30 million, then it wouldn’t be that hard for Hogwarts Legacy to overtake it imo.

 

[.Pennywise]

Should I close the poll? Mmmhhh

 

[StueyDuck]

Probably Zelda because the the 10 people who actually boycott hogwarts will buy Zelda..

 

[baphomet]

Zelda will sell multiple times what Hogwarts will.

 

[semiconscious]

op: much preferred your 'which sock will i put on first, right or left?' thread...

 

[Banjo64]

Might be close initially as Hogwarts will probably have a tonne of front loaded sales from massive Potter nerds whereas Tears of the Kingdom will probably sell millions of copies a year for the next 3-4 years.

 

[Fatmanp]

The only thing stopping it being Zelda is if a new console is released within 12 months and their isn't a version available at launch. Nintendo games sell through the lifespan of a console so if that ends without a jump on point it could sell fewer than it should.

 

[.Pennywise]

It's not been one month and Hogwarts Legacy already sold 12 millions copies lol

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Earns $850 Million, Sells More Than 12 Million Units in First Two Weeks

"Hogwarts Legacy" has wingardium leviosa-ed Warner Bros. Games' sales, earning $850 million in global sales and moving more than 12 million units.

variety.com

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

why?

 

[Rykan]

BOTW sold 27 million copies. Meanwhile, the best selling Harry Potter games are HP & the philosophers stone (12m), Chamber of Secrets (7M) and Lego Harry Potter (8M). You people are seriously overestimating the combination of Popular franchise + Good/Decent Game. Fallen Order is similar in that regard, and it's nowhere near BOTW sales either despite being on a comparably popular IP and widely considered to be a good game.

It's probably going to do well if it's a good game, but there's no way it's going to be doing Zelda numbers.

This is gonna age well, I'm sure.

 

[sandbood]

It's not been one month and Hogwarts Legacy already sold 12 millions copies lol

http://[URL]https://variety.com/2023/gaming/news/hogwarts-legacy-sales-850-million-1235533614/

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Pokémon SV sold 10 million units in 3 days and TOTK is going to do that as well.

 

[jufonuk]

Seeing as one is available on multiple and the other only one.

Hogwarts has the potential for a lot more sales than Zelda.

But seeing as Zelda will be the better game overall. Quality always rises.
There might be a chance Zelda outsells Hogwarts in the end.

All the points to me.

Maybe I called it ?

I think Zelda will sell more

Anyone got those numbers

 

[GigaBowser]

Maybe I called it ?

I think Zelda will sell more

Anyone got those numbers

Around 15 millions already gonna be the next GTAV my friends

 

[jufonuk]

Around 15 millions already gonna be the next GTAV my friends

 

[Tams]

OP won't be here to party with us.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Redfall

 

[Kataploom]

Hasn't Zelda already sold same amount than HL? Last time we knew it was at 12M in one month and Zelda sold 10M in three days.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

Pokémon SV sold 10 million units in 3 days and TOTK is going to do that as well.

This guy, b& as he may be, called it pretty well.

Shame pokemon SV sold so well, game freak can get away with anything.

ToTK deserved it.

 

[cormack12]

We have 22 million for Hogwarts and 19.5 million up until October. Final months of the year - will zelda shift 2.6 million extra copies?

 

[Robb]

We have 22 million for Hogwarts and 19.5 million up until October. Final months of the year - will zelda shift 2.6 million extra copies?

Somewhat doubt it but it’s a close race!

 

[DenchDeckard]

Zelda wins for being on one platform vs everything.

Absolute beast.

Nintendo, the best.

 

[Baki]

We have 22 million for Hogwarts and 19.5 million up until October. Final months of the year - will zelda shift 2.6 million extra copies?

Sell-in vs shipped

 

[SantaC]

hogwarts won

 

[Bonfires Down]

Does this mean Nintendo has committed trans genocide?

 

[Scotty W]

Zelda games have always had legendary legs, so Zelda.

I think one of the secrets is that Zelda games are not made irrelevant by sequels, usually. And they age well enough that normies can go back and play them later.

Older Ass Creed or CoD games, for example, because I could have the sane experience with better graphics and qol improvements with a newer game. Older Pikmin and Splatoon games are examples off this.

It is interesting that Nintendo rarely makes more than one sequel to a game without drastic changes.

Links Awakening got 2 sequels, which are basically the same. Wind Waker got 2 on the DS. NSMB got 2.

Ocarina is a special case because, like the original, it was archetypal, in that all games copied it for years. Considered in this light, Ocarina got 1 direct sequel, and 3 pseudo sequels, WW, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Interesting that of these pseudo sequels, only the one that people did not want is the one that has legs today.

 

[GigaBowser]

hogwarts won

wort??

been out 6 months longer on all platforms 22 million TOTK 20 million on ONE

 

[Cyberpunkd]

wort??

been out 6 months longer on all platforms 22 million TOTK 20 million on ONE

Which number is larger? 22 or 20?

 

[baphomet]

Which number is larger? 22 or 20?

Zelda sold 20 million as of 5 months ago. It's probably closer to 35-40 million as of now.

 

[SantaC]

wort??

been out 6 months longer on all platforms 22 million TOTK 20 million on ONE

Hogwarts still won. Na na na

 

[baphomet]

Hogwarts still won. Na na na

Except it didn't. Unless you're only counting the numbers Zelda sold as of August of last year.

 

[RoboFu]

Zelda sold 20 million as of 5 months ago. It's probably closer to 35-40 million as of now.

Idk about 30k but yeah no sales have been reported for the holidays so it’s definitely more than 20 million now.

 

[baphomet]

Idk about 30k but yeah no sales have been reported for the holidays so it’s definitely more than 20 million now.

30 is probably more realistic. Our store has been restocking and selling through them constantly since release.

 

[Rentahamster]

Someone should probably just post a recent source for sales figures for both games.

 

[cormack12]

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Sold 22 Million Copies Despite Boycott Controversy

Last year's Hogwarts Legacy was a sales monster.

www.google.com

Hogwarts: 22 million

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom hits 19.5M sold

Nintendo reported that its cumulative sales of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, has hit 19.5 million copies sold.

venturebeat.com

TOTK: 19.5 million with data up till Sept 31st.
Delta: As of June 30th TOTK was at 18.51 million (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...lls-more-than-18-million-copies-in-two-months)

So between June 30th and Sept 31st, it sold 1 million copies across 3 months. It needs to sell 2.6 million copies in 3 months to take Hogwarts crown. Did the holiday boost sales?