Tears of the Kingdom is the biggest launch in UK this year, beating out Hogwarts Legacy, RE4, and Jedi Survivor

This game is going to be massive, the game is trending on tiktok and some people are already making mechas with lasers + massive media coverage + 125M user base + Nintendo is on fire due the Mario movie, is the perfect storm for ToK.
 
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Since this is boxed only, I look forward to the press release from Nintendo with the total sales.
 
mansoor1980 said:
with modding they will buy it , game will have a long life , even longer than skyrim
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Tbh i don't believe Bethesda will have a Skyrim moment again. Those times are over. Even if you look at the social media traction Starfield is bringing in is abysmall compared to other games.

Not sure what it is, but that first reveal was shite.
 
SEGA_2012 said:
Deserved. This Masterpiece should never lose to mediocre games like RE4R, Hogwarts and Jedi Survivor.
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Back to the topic, this shouldn't be a surprise.
Games like Zelda are an event for Nintendo Switch owners.
They rarely get games of this calibre which most of us take for granted.
 
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Highly doubt it outsold Hogwarts when you factor in digital, though no complaints if it did, that game was no way near as good as its sales suggest.
 
The game probably shits from a great height on every game released on the Switch over the last few years so not much of a surprise.
 
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I really liked, Hogwarts and Jedi , but when I started playing TOTK it snapped me back to how most games are so mediocre these days. At least Nintendo still can put out really stupendous games.
 
I think there was a poll about sales between Totk and HL back then....
Beating HL in their own turf is something. Couldn't expect less from Zelda.
Good job Nintendo.
 
Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, Forza Horizon 5, God of War Ragnork... I'm so happy excellent, high-quality games are smashing records left and right! Good games win!!
 
They deserve every penny they get for creating such an amazing physics engine and stupidly huge open world on a six year old console slower than my phone.
 
Tears of the kingdom will sell more copies than there are current gen xbox around. Starfield will have a very hard time selling as much lol
 
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Not surprising given that Hogwarts was limited to PS5/XSX which at the time of launch didn't have a ton of hardware sold.

Hogwarts will probably have better legs than Zelda though or at least it'll be closer.
 
Not surprised. The game is an absolute joy to play. I can't put it down! Been a while since I was this hooked to something.

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Already with the success of the Mario movie and the sales of Zelda, Nintendo has no excuse for not launching F-Zero for Nintendo Switch.
 
LakeOf9 said:
Horizon 2 wasn't selling to the 140 million install base, for most people it's a PS5 game, and it will sell as a PS5 game. Sony especially pushes its games with the whole graphic and tech angle, meaning their audience is likelier to wait for the better version of a game. And Horizon, more than God of War or GT or Spiderman, was the cross gen Sony game that REALLY benefitted from the PS5 (where the other ones are more straightforward PS5 ports).
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The average consumer (99.99%) is not going to hold out on a buying a hugely anticipated title for several months/years, only to purchase it and a brand new system in order to experience it on a slightly higher resolution. Get out that gaf bubble.

Horizon games are beautiful but the gameplay is not something to write home about. They should be happy with the amount they sold. And there's definitely not some extremely nuanced underlying reasons for why it didn't sell heaps more.
 
I hope a visionary can come into Nintendo one day and do for Metroid what Aonuma did for Zelda. It's incredible how the property has been elevated to Mario levels of success.

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I want to see Samus next to Link on this banner one day.
 
March Climber said:
I hope a visionary can come into Nintendo one day and do for Metroid what Aonuma did for Zelda. It's incredible how the property has been elevated to Mario levels of success.

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I want to see Samus next to Link on this banner one day.
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She's there. They just had to crop the image for technical reasons.
 
I'm unsurprised by it's success. Online video game culture differs vastly from reality. Nintendo's IP are in a completely different league from other publishers. Nintendo's franchises are as big if not bigger than any other in media.
 
I guess starving your install base of anything to play for over a year can have this effect on your next release on the system
 
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I love the salt Nintendo games bring....this game alone will sell as much as every big exclusive on a Sony platform combined or on a MS platform combined in the last 3 years in a couple of months.
 
lukilladog said:
Keyword here is "boxed", so this can be taken as confirmation that it didn't outsold Hogwart's Legacy in total numbers.
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It's boxed because Nintendo doesn't share digital. We unfortunately have no way of telling what the total sales are for TOTK in the UK.
 
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