Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

Post by krapp » Thu, May 18, 2023, 2:54 PM UTC

zeta0134 wrote: post #158

edgyquant wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There has basically never been a Zelda game that wasn’t amazing. Also this is a sequel to a game that people were buying before they even had a switch (because switches were hard to get for the first year or so.) So yeah, everyone assumed it’d be an amazing game and it is.

For your enjoyment, may I present: "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_CD-i_games But for more official games, I find Phantom Hourglass to be the weakest entry in the series. It's... fine? Painfully easy and loaded with padding.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 18, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

taeric wrote: post #142

I love how every top level comment is all about how this is because Nintendo made an amazing game. Yet... with how fast this is selling, there is literally no way that folks know it is an amazing game ahead of time. More, odds are high that if they had made this as not a sequel, it would not be selling as well. Go bolder and make it a new franchise? Same game would basically not be noticed. I think it is fair to like…

Post by agumonkey » Thu, May 18, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #143

arnaudsm wrote: post #8

It is impressive that a game running on an 8-year-old phone GPU will likely be game of the year. Nintendo proved again that gameplay and art direction matter more than anything.

Is it really that impressive that focusing on game design results in a better game than spending a billion dollars on a thousand artists so that every tree can have ten times as many polygons and each texture is 16kX16k? Better graphics rarely actually IMPROVE a game, and can do nothing to fix a game that was designed poorly. AAA studios whine and cry about how expensive games are to make (completely glossing over th…

Post by downrightmike » Thu, May 18, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #18

hospitalJail wrote: post #5

The marketing was insane as usual. Nintendo performed excellent. Multiple front page reddit posts, multiple 10/10 reviews from big name outlets. Nintendo rivals Apple as the best company in marketing. Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaints, I was born too early to see this reviewed in business schools, but we are starting to see a bit of the innerworkings…

> Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaint Or perhaps the game is really that good? Good looking games aren't necessarily good games. This is just a good one.

Post by highwind » Thu, May 18, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #143

arnaudsm wrote: post #8

It is impressive that a game running on an 8-year-old phone GPU will likely be game of the year. Nintendo proved again that gameplay and art direction matter more than anything.

Is it really that impressive that focusing on game design results in a better game than spending a billion dollars on a thousand artists so that every tree can have ten times as many polygons and each texture is 16kX16k? Better graphics rarely actually IMPROVE a game, and can do nothing to fix a game that was designed poorly. AAA studios whine and cry about how expensive games are to make (completely glossing over th…