The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS)

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Originally Posted by Hero

Except people can buy Ocarina digitally, and these sales numbers are supposed to include that, right?

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Point taken. Still, my Ocarina is probably getting thrown on ebay sooner than later.

An awful lot of Nintendo fans seem to be uncomfortable with buying things digitally, going by discussions on the GameFAQs Hyrule Warriors, Smash Bros and Mario Kart 8 boards (and with the clusterfuck that Nintendo has made of digital "ownership", who can blame them?), so it doesn't surprise me they're willing to pay a premium for a physical copy.

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Originally Posted by Hero

Luigi's Mansion is mainstream.

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Of course it is. It might be a weird little ghost puzzle game but its still fucking Luigi. Also with a year long marketing push specifically for the motherfucker.

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

I think it's not as simple as "since this one outsold the other 2:1, that ratio will hold". It might, but OoT was THE game to have on the N64. I bet the two 3DS Zeldas "scale well" in that the audience that bought the first would buy the second. One thing against it would be that by the time it comes out (when does it come out?), no one will care about 3DS games.

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I believe it's coming in the first half of 2015 so it's just a few months away.

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Originally Posted by Hero

Well, look at it in context.

N64's install base was roughly 33 million. So 7 mil on Ocarina was 'bonkers' and 3 mil on Majora, pretty damn good.

Now on 3DS, the install base is about 45 million (currently), with (what we'd assume is the more popular) Ocarina selling about 3 million. Given that this platform has a higher install base, but drastically lower sales for the more popular N64 release, I'm skeptical that Majora's Mask will do better than Ocarina now, or better than it did originally.

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This is one of the worst analyses I've ever seen. OoT 3D was a launch game. It didn't sell to 45 million people, it sold to zero people in the beginning. OoT 3D did very well for a launch game. By contrast, OoT launched on a 3-year old system with a stable audience and was probably the most hyped game ever up to that point.

i love it.

"look at it in context"

*removes all other context*

Don't look at it.

Hero makes some whackass arguments about shit.

That's what I'm saying. I like Hero, and agree with a good amount of what he says, but when he snaps, he really goes all in.

Nintendo needs to stop releasing niche games like Zelda.