@Ralizah
I agree it won't have an Awakening moment, but, many Switch games don't make it into the top 100 until just before their release day. Or if they do, it's only after announcement hype and then fall down several hundred spots. Obviously, staying in top 100 like Metroid is a sign of massive sales to come. But only the big, evergreen titles seem to pull that off.
I would love to see SMTV break 2 million. I think 1 mil is a given. But 2 mil would be a feat. It doesn't have the same "teenagers in school" appeal of Persona, but that's ok. Not every game has to be equally popular. SMT has been so incredibly niche up until now, that breaking 2 million would basically launch it into JRPG mainstream circles. It needs to review very well though. 90+ on MC would really give it the gas it needs to burn long term.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@Ralizah That top 10 is about what I'd expect, if you swap DDLC with standalone Shining Pearl that's the top 10 I thought it would be. I'd guess Metroid Dread will drop to 4th and AW drops out of the top 10 in the coming weeks as we actually get real info on BDSP and Legends Arceus for the first time in 6 months next week.
@JaxonH SMT V has way more exposure than IV, and IV did 750,000+ on 3DS, so if SMT V can't hit a million copies sold, there's an issue. 1mil seems like the absolute worst case scenario in terms of likely minimum sales projections. The likely sales ceiling is another question altogether.
We'll have a good idea of how it performs a week or two after launch, because non-evergreen games sell the majority of their copies within a game's launch window period.
I'm actually curious about how Great Ace Attorney is doing. It consistently performs well on the Amazon charts and maintains a presence on the eshop's best-selling page, but we've seen no other indication that the game has sold well. The series sells low enough that, if they passed the 1mil sales threshold with this release, there would have been a Capcom Twitter post crowing about it. I think the Jp audience continuing to snub it is dragging down its sales potential.
@Magician
Ya, I think Monkey Ball will do fine. I just saw Banana Blitz HD in the eShop best sellers the other day, provably a sale they were running.
This is the ultimate Monkey Ball experience. It’s the game every single Monkey Ball fan has been clamoring for, for many years now. Not just the first, not just the first and second, but the first three games combined, with optional gyro, with optional jumping, with all original minigames included, with extra character skins and new mode… if Banana Mania doesn’t sell I’ll eat my shorts. And then make every Monkey Ball fan who complained about Banana Blitz not being “what we want” who didn’t then step up and buy Banana Mania eat their shorts as well.
That said, Idk what the reach of Monkey Ball is nowadays. What is “good” for the series? I think 500k on Switch alone would be more than satisfactory. Over 1m combined would also be more than satisfactory. Though I suspect 75% or more of this game’s sales to be on the Nintendo Switch. There’s very little (if any) reason to buy anywhere else, unless you just don’t own a Switch. Maybe trophy junkies will account for some sales elsewhere, and loyalists who just don’t like buying games on Switch, even when they look and run the same and offer extra value via tabletop and handheld. Maybe a few on Steam for long term preservation as well. I would say a few 4k diehards also, but anyone who’s a 4k diehard isn’t buying games on Switch in the first place. But there’s not too many Switch gamers in those other groups, even when combined.
@StuTwo
Groose is such a good character! Aesthetics, dialogue, arc. So good. And honestly, a lot of what he says and does is probably pretty close to what most people are thinking (if not saying out loud) during the events of the story.
8.2 million sales across all the games to date. It's not a big seller, but it's respectable enough that the series will have persisted for two decades by the time October rolls around.
Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild is out on Netflix.
And you should all go watch it. This is what we’ve been wanting for a Monster Hunter movie. One that is faithful to the game. It’s not perfect. It shifts tone and scenes fairly quickly sometimes, but it’s still easily the best video game movie I’ve ever seen.
It stars the Ace Cadet from MH4U and MH World, and co-stars the Ace Hunters from MH4U as well. This is an absolute must-see
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Since some of us are still on the topic of Zelda; I just came upon this absolutely devastating review, by Action Button, of Twilight Princess and Zelda in general at the time.
"At this point, the language of Zelda is stunted. Twilight Princess is inbred, the offspring of games hecking other games in the same small town. If the series wants to flourish, it’s going to have to head out into the wild."
–Heather Campbell( written in 2007)
Edit: obviously I accentuated that final sentence in bold for comedic purposes. Or is it prophecy?(influence)
@Link-Hero I'd never spotted the areas being the different stages of grief. That's cool. I mean the plot of the game is still paper thin but a lot of thought went into the world and I'll always love the way different characters come to terms (or not) with the impending end of the world.
Obtaining the couples mask - well you know that Link can always warp back to the dawn of the first day at any time but for Kafei and Anju, as far as they know, it's the end. It's a type of meta moment full of contemplation but completely integrated into gameplay mechanics.
@IceClimbers Everything about the new Monkey Ball just seems like Sega "gets" what we want. I think that if Sega keeps it in "print" it'll be a perennial game for years to come - like Mario Kart 8 is.
Given I finished Skyward Sword HD yesterday, Majora's Mask is the only 3D Zelda I haven't fully finished. As I'm sure plenty of you are aware, Europe before the GC got inferior 50Hz versions of games which made the N64 version of Majora's Mask rather obnoxious (Wii VC and Wii U VC got the 50Hz versions in Europe) so I only reached the beginning of Snowhead. My 3DS suffered considerable damage in 2016 such that it's only useful for Fire Emblem (didn't get it repaired or replaced because Switch was so soon) so I only got as far as Snowhead Temple in Majora's Mask 3D.
Though from what I had played I'd rank the 3D Zelda games:
1. Twilight Princess/Twilight Princess HD
2. Ocarina of Time/Ocarina of Time 3D
3. Skyward Sword HD
4. Wind Waker HD
5. Majora's Mask 3D
6. Wind Waker (GC)
7. Majora's Mask (N64)
8. BotW
9. Skyward Sword (Wii)
Skyward Sword (Wii) is at the bottom because of the extremely unreliable controls, in terms of the games themselves BotW is definitely the worst 3D Zelda game.
My 3D Zelda rankings would be
1. Botw
And that’s it, I never bought Zelda games beforehand, becuase my Nintendo consoles mainly were used for Pokémon haha
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