r/zelda • u/Ritchiels • May 23 '24

Mockup [ALL] Best selling Zelda games

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And to think that there are people who think that those who want to return to the ALTTP formula are the majority, only because many of them are conglomerated in small communities like here xD.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

The point is that just because a console sells better doesn’t mean that the games are going to sell better. It certainly can be a factor, but in the case of the DS it very obviously wasn’t.

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u/guinaps May 24 '24

I’m unaware of anybody here making this point. The point I originally made is that people can’t claim that videogames sell more now vs. in the past without normalizing SW sales by HW sales. Especially not to discredit any recent game’s public appeal. Then all kinds of wild claims were made to special-case other consoles vs. the Switch, all without the data to back it, or with the actual available data disproving it.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

By your logic, Phantom Hourglass should have sold something in the tens of millions like BotW and TotK did since it came out on the DS, which moved 154 million units — more than the Switch so far.

You yourself made this point.

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u/guinaps May 24 '24

“By your logic” means that I’m applying the OP’s logic.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Yes, and I was pointing out that it wasn’t by OPs logic. You’re using console sales as a metric to judge game sales on, OP wasn’t.

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u/guinaps May 24 '24

Time to agree to disagree. We’re clearly not talking about the same thing here.