Because Odyssey isn't the better selling game. Breath of the Wild gets an additional 1.7 million units from the Wii U version that puts it over the top.
the fact that Metroid Prime 3 didn't outsell the first tells me there might be some limitation. and it's not like it wasn't a critical darling
If you buy a PS4/Xbox One, you buy GTA5 to go with it.
Borderlands 3 seems likely, though it will have a short reign with COD coming out soon after.
Metroid Prime 4 will easily be the best selling Metroid game. This is the best core Nintendo system Nintendo has had since the SNES. And you already know how all of Nintendo's games are selling on Switch. MP3 has no bearing on how much this franchise is about to grow.
Thank you.Global Quarterly Shipments
Quarterly Average
BOTW - 1,361,000
SMO - 2,134,286
Quarterly Average Post Launch Quarter
BOTW - 1,205,556
SMO - 978,333
There have been 6 quarters following the launch of SMO. In this time, it has moved an additional 5,870,000 units. BOTW in the same time period has shipped 6,910,000 units. SMO pulled ahead of BOTW in Q2 and Q3 FY18 by a total of 230,000 but BOTW stayed ahead in Q1/Q4 FY18 and Q1 19 by a total of 1,270,000. We will see if last year's trend of SMO winning Q2/3 continues (unlikely for Q2 IMO).
Prime 3 underperforming as much as it did is for sure a strong argument against what I said, yes. But in counter to that point, I'd say the demographic for switch and general state of the industry is far removed from that of the Wii era.
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Be-because the sales of the game are spread across two platforms?
The comparison is between how the two games are selling, period. Breath of the Wild has sold more than Super Mario Odyssey, and continues to sell better than Super Mario Odyssey around the world. That's the point being made. Arbitrarily taking out about 10% of Breath of the Wild's sales to counter that point doesn't achieve anything at all.
I think FPS games weren't nearly as popular then, unless it was a polished competitive shooter like Goldeneye or Halo 2. Especially so on those Nintendo consoles.
MP4 being the best selling game in the series is a given, yes. but my point was more that, despite the Wii being more casual oriented, it's core Nintendo base is still larger than the GCN's. MP3 not matching MP1 might be more of a sign of an inherent problem with Metroid Prime than user base. how MP4 will pull past MP1 will tell us a lot.
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Okay, yeah, the gap is bigger than I thought it was, fair enough.
Right, I wouldn't say Odyssey has poor legs in a vacuum, it's just that the charts are populated with games that have far better legs, relatively speaking (Zelda, Smash, Minecraft, GTA5). I don't think Odyssey has bad legs due to bad word of mouth, I think it has weaker legs than Breath of the Wild due to weaker word of mouth than Breath of the Wild (which I feel is an uncontroversial statement).
I think on the whole there's general agreement on Zelda being the better game, which ultimately is what fuels this success it has enjoyed.
To be fair, the comparison isn't on even ground either way. BotW was a Switch launch game and the console was sold out for months. Plenty of Wii U owners likely would have purchased Zelda on Switch if the U version didn't exist. Zelda being on Wii U hurts it's sales on Switch (as opposed to it being solely on Switch). Obviously Odyssey would sell better overall if it were also on Wii U, but BotW would have sold better on Switch if it wasn't also on Wii U.
Global Quarterly Shipments
Quarterly Average
BOTW - 1,361,000
SMO - 2,134,286
Quarterly Average Post Launch Quarter
BOTW - 1,205,556
SMO - 978,333
There have been 6 quarters following the launch of SMO. In this time, it has moved an additional 5,870,000 units. BOTW in the same time period has shipped 6,910,000 units. SMO pulled ahead of BOTW in Q2 and Q3 FY18 by a total of 230,000 but BOTW stayed ahead in Q1/Q4 FY18 and Q1 19 by a total of 1,270,000. We will see if last year's trend of SMO winning Q2/3 continues (unlikely for Q2 IMO).
I think BotW has more than hit the mainstream market at this point. Games for people like us don't have legs like this. We're day 1 people.
Ding ding ding. When games have legs like BotW that's more than just for us. That's when it's more mainstream.
Nope, you don't hit 14 million and continue to sell half a million a quarter by not selling to the mainstream.
