#2945

Also, if you add the sales of Mario Kart 8 from Wii U to those sales, then that game has now shifted over 33 million units.

#2946

And that there are a whole load of idiots that don’t have BotW

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#2947

  1. I totally agree. I didn’t buy it as I didn’t really get on with the ones I succumbed to buying on Wii and Wii U.

  2. Totally. I bought this one because, kids, but I rarely think to get it out.

#2948

I currently own 4 physical games for switch and those are the top 4 games of all time. :smiley:I’m such a normy

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#2949

Yep, I’m only a few floors in but my brain refuses to cooperate with non inverted. Persevering and its a great game but it definitely lessens my enjoyment

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#2950

I think you meant “it doesn’t exist”

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#2951

IT’S FINE!

#2952

what I ended up doing was going into settings and changing from ‘omnidirectional’ to ‘horizontal’ only which helped with the aiming as it felt a bit more intuitive. Then for some bits, changing back to omni for anything that required shooting upwards… Was a faff but overall the game was good enough to make me put up with it.

#2953

Yeah, I was expecting this based on the Japan and US physical numbers. Right game at the right time and the best selling in the franchise already.

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#2954

I’m kinda with you.

I think it might be the best animated and polished game I’ve ever played, but I don’t know how much I actually like playing it?

Sometimes hoovering up stuff is joyful, sometimes a chore. The bosses veer from outright amazing and some of the most inventive I’ve seen in a decade to WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO?!?! And the controls continue to baffle me, even though I’m 2 floors from the top.

And the fact the kids have stopped asking to play it and I haven’t bothered to finish off the last 2 floors suggests it didn’t quite grab me in the way I had hoped.

I’d say it’s a really charming 7/10 for me, and a game I’m glad I played.

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#2955

I’m very surprised to see BOTW isn’t in the top ten selling Wii U games.

I recall some bonkers headlines at launch that the game sold more than one copy per Switch sold, so I guessed a lot of those sales must have been on Wii U. I know of several people who bought it for that machine before buying a Switch a year later.

#2956

24m copies of nintendogs sold :smiley:

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#2957

Probably late in the lifetime and most Switch early adopters were core Nintendo fans who prob owned wiiu but wanted switch version.
Not unlike the Twilight Princess game cube release I suppose.
Will likely be worth loads for a sealed wiiu copy in future.

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#2958

only did the first part of the tutorial
looks cool but enjoying ranked battles (except the clam one) too much at the moment

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#2959

Yeah I put it down to that. Just seems odd that a flagship title for a console built for it and hyped for 3 years solid never sold more than a rerelease of a GC game!

#2960

I thought the stat was that it sold more than one copy on Switch per Switch sold:

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#2961

Ah got ya. That is still a nuts headline.

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#2962

For what is a giant corporation I feel an inexplicable pride in Nintendo’s sale performance. Something about them just feels less evil then every other company.

Fully expect and hope someone will reply to this telling me about terrible things they’ve done recently.

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#2963

A lot of this is tied in to years of Nintendo being thought of as kiddy and me being derided for having Nintendo rather than PlayStation. They’ve always felt like an underdog even though they sell millions of units and make the very best games

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#2964

I think there’s something about Nintendo’s innovative/weird products that fail that makes them endearing.

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