One of the many things to take away from the recent Nintendo investors conference is that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild needs to sell over 2 million units for the game to be profitable for the company. Shigeru Miyamoto told investors that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has over 100 staff, and over 300 people in the credits, and has been over 5 years in the making.
.@NStyles Miyamoto: Breath of the Wild has over 100 staff, and over 300 people in the credits, spending over 5 years. Our current efforts…
— Cheesemeister 😷💉💉💉 (@Cheesemeister3k) June 29, 2016
.@NStyles …will be helpful in the next production. The costs will be recovered by selling in large volumes, passing 2m sales.
— Cheesemeister 😷💉💉💉 (@Cheesemeister3k) June 29, 2016
Frankly, easily doable. I mean, everyone is crazy about this game, and for good reasons. They can easily do that.
With it being an NX launch game, yes, with some marketing, it’s easily done
even without that. Mario Maker sold more on the WiiU and while many might have abandoned the WiiU by the time this game launches, it should be very easy to achieve 2M copies on the WiiU alone. ZombiU, a third party game for a 18+ audience released at launch of this unsuccessful system, managed to sell 1M globally, so it *could* happen that the most hyped 1st party game of that system could reach 2 Mio at a time when the userbase is at its max. I’d say it should easily reach over 3 Mio on WiiU alone and hopefully something north of 8Mio on NX, but that depends on the NX.
Great point.
Between Wii U and early NX adopters, they’ll hit that number within a month.
I’ll give them a week. Mario Kart 8 earned some amazing profits for Nintendo in just one week… and that being on the Wii U, Nintendo’s worst sold home console!
Easy! With good marketing!
https://youtu.be/ZK2c4unVlzQ
This certainly makes me wonder if Xenoblade Chronicles X was profitable for them…
I wonder too. Not a lot of sales but the game is good. I played over 300 hours.
I guy on gamesfaq posted this about Monolith Soft fiscal year
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/701151-xenoblade-chronicles-x/73939923
they got 1 billion profit.
I think that indicates Xenoblade X did fairly well
They probably made the game very efficiently , like not spending more resources than they should even though they kept the project very ambitious, and also managed to get good money with the sales (it was the most expensive game I ever saw on eshop, but it is deserved of course). Also, the game is around 1 million on VG chars
2 million worldwide will be a piece of cake. Splatoon has been at over 4 million for months and its a new IP. A Zelda game of this caliber, and with this level of hype surrounding it, will hit that probably in the first week or two, especially if the NX ends up being as cool as it’s rumored to be.
Assuming that means 2 million combined between Wii U and NX, I doubt that will be a problem.
Some people are buying both the Wii U & NX.
2 Mil should be easy peasy!
Did you see the trailer for it? It’s practically a given this thing will reach 2 mil, possibly within the first month.
If not the first week!
that market better be in good shape to this…
Shouldn’t be a problem for a Zelda game, let alone a Zelda game that got the whole attention of E3 this year.
That will most certainly not be an issue everybody wants a great game like Zewlda so I’m sure that it will surpass that goal in no time.
Ya know considering that will come with the NX and the Wii U.
Please no, just give us a spiritual sequel to Spirit Tracks (that isn’t Triforce Heroes) on the handheld instead. This game is too different as it is (not that it won’t a good game).
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1 Million Per Console will be a Piece of Cake. Heck, it could reach 2 Million on Each Console, let alone Combined.
It can hit 2 million on just the Wii U. Everyone and their momma are looking forward to this next Zelda game. It’s going to sell a shit ton.
I already have it preordered from three different places. I’m waiting to see who has the best bonus when they are announced and then canceling the other two, but still. Count me as one sale towards that goal.
No risk, no fun, eh? =)
Nope haha. I’ve gotten burned on preorders before, so I’m taking zero chances this time.
Just to put in context. The worst sales for a Zelda home console entrie is 3.36 millions from Majora’s Mask. So it’s secure to assume that it will hit the 2 millions mark.
They will easily sell 2m on the Wii U alone. MK 8 sold almost 7m.
2 million day one lmao.
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