Goes to show, a good Zelda game is a system seller. I do hope that they don’t take this as a signal to oversaturate Zelda by pushing it into everything. Zelda games should be special events that mean something special is being released.
Sales data drives even more hype and more sales, I wouldn't sleep on this game being ever green and eventually hitting the 20m mark as the switch 2 install base grows
OoT is a relatively short game, which I believe is attractive to most people. It's also something you put down for a while and pick up knowing what stage you're at.
Popping in and out and judging the thumbnail – just wanted to say Donkey Nuts Bananza is the shitz and imo DKC2 is right there with OOT. Remake DKC2 proper.
People have said that Skyward Sword proved that the "old Zelda formula" was getting stale. I completely disagree. Skyward Sword had many of the tropes of the old formula on the surface (as it were), but it was simply inferior and flawed. Instead of going on an adventure throughout an interconnected Hyrule, the surface world was a set of disconnected "platformer levels" that you had to travel through on a set path, connected by a hub world. Motion control gimmicks were shoved down the player's throat constantly, because this had to be the quintessential "Wii game", and overall there was just a lot of repetition.
There is good in Skyward Sword, but only about half of the game is what I would consider the "old formula", and so it didn't prove that that formula was stale, it just introduced a lot of things that made Skyward Sword feel stale and repetitive as you were playing it. And so BotW was needed to breathe new life into the series.
TotK ought to have brought back many of the old formula ideas, but it doubled down too hard on what BotW did to its own detriment. I'm absolutely loving how the Ocarina of Time remake is proving that that type of game is well-structured and simply fun to play. Having a larger map that you can explore more of is certainly fun, but they really need to find that compromise, and I hope that they do.
"Ocarina of Time is Already the Most Important Switch 2 Game" I don't really see why as it not like if we suffer a lack of Zelda game as a cash grab franchise who get too much attention almost every years unlike others Nintendo games who suffer a lack of attention.
After all this year it's OoT, last year it was Age of Imprisonment, 2024 was Echoes of Wisdom and 2023 was Tears of Kingdom so, nope, another ordinary Zelda game isn't the most important game as the real most important game this year is the return of the Star Fox serie this year with the sales who was more than one million so definitively better than those last Star Fox games sales.
So, in others words, it could probably inspirate Nintendo to move their a*s and bring back F-Zero, Kid Icarus, Chibi-Robo!, Earthbound, Wave Race and others forgotten exclusive franchise than made another recycled Zelda game like if we suffer a lack of Zelda game.
I pre-ordered an already picked up the game with the holographic special edition box before I own a switch 2. So yeah I think you're right that this is a pretty important game. 😂
I held off to see how they were going to actually handle the game key card cartridges, because I buy games so that I own them or else I expect to pay no more than $20 for the game brand new, and no more than $10 if it's over a year old. Digital only games are purchased on Steam sales and similar sales on consoles. I am pleased with the way they have avoided using key cards for their own first-party games, and will completely avoid purchasing the games that only come on key cards so long as they are so expensive. That said, a key card is superior to a digital download code, because it is its own implied actual tangible proof of purchase. This means a key card enables you to use the same laws that allow emulation as long as you own the hardware and software. The key card is proof of purchase, and therefore it is different from the way that Sony and Microsoft do their "licenses" in place of actual purchase.
I'm a PC gamer as well, and I really like my GOG as well as my very inexpensive Steam games.
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why the intro so gay !!!1
I didn't realize how long other LoZ entries were trying to capture those OoT sales until I saw this chart today
My tween daughters (9 and 11) really understand OOT, but TotK/BotW was too advanced for them. It's a crowd pleaser.
Goes to show, a good Zelda game is a system seller. I do hope that they don’t take this as a signal to oversaturate Zelda by pushing it into everything. Zelda games should be special events that mean something special is being released.
I think DK Bananza is personally, that game has redefined 3D platformers.
But OOT is a close 2nd since it is a remake after all.
It needs to outsell botw or at least totk to show nintendo that abandoning this zelda formula for new games is not the way
Sales data drives even more hype and more sales, I wouldn't sleep on this game being ever green and eventually hitting the 20m mark as the switch 2 install base grows
12 mill life time
I got mine delivered from smyths on launch day, just beat it today. I never beat OoT on n64 or 3ds. This game is genuinely insane.
Can't wait for the remake of that game for the Nintendo 4DS.
This is the most third-party support Nintendo has had since the SNES
OoT is a relatively short game, which I believe is attractive to most people. It's also something you put down for a while and pick up knowing what stage you're at.
Popping in and out and judging the thumbnail – just wanted to say Donkey Nuts Bananza is the shitz and imo DKC2 is right there with OOT. Remake DKC2 proper.
Nintendo 💪 👌
6:30 I can't wait for smash
2:12 bananza deff pushes the sketch 2 too tho
People have said that Skyward Sword proved that the "old Zelda formula" was getting stale. I completely disagree. Skyward Sword had many of the tropes of the old formula on the surface (as it were), but it was simply inferior and flawed. Instead of going on an adventure throughout an interconnected Hyrule, the surface world was a set of disconnected "platformer levels" that you had to travel through on a set path, connected by a hub world. Motion control gimmicks were shoved down the player's throat constantly, because this had to be the quintessential "Wii game", and overall there was just a lot of repetition.
There is good in Skyward Sword, but only about half of the game is what I would consider the "old formula", and so it didn't prove that that formula was stale, it just introduced a lot of things that made Skyward Sword feel stale and repetitive as you were playing it. And so BotW was needed to breathe new life into the series.
TotK ought to have brought back many of the old formula ideas, but it doubled down too hard on what BotW did to its own detriment. I'm absolutely loving how the Ocarina of Time remake is proving that that type of game is well-structured and simply fun to play. Having a larger map that you can explore more of is certainly fun, but they really need to find that compromise, and I hope that they do.
Hopefully, this leads to a Majora's Mask remake since the OoT remake was a huge success.
"Ocarina of Time is Already the Most Important Switch 2 Game" I don't really see why as it not like if we suffer a lack of Zelda game as a cash grab franchise who get too much attention almost every years unlike others Nintendo games who suffer a lack of attention.
After all this year it's OoT, last year it was Age of Imprisonment, 2024 was Echoes of Wisdom and 2023 was Tears of Kingdom so, nope, another ordinary Zelda game isn't the most important game as the real most important game this year is the return of the Star Fox serie this year with the sales who was more than one million so definitively better than those last Star Fox games sales.
So, in others words, it could probably inspirate Nintendo to move their a*s and bring back F-Zero, Kid Icarus, Chibi-Robo!, Earthbound, Wave Race and others forgotten exclusive franchise than made another recycled Zelda game like if we suffer a lack of Zelda game.
They’re gonna announce a Switch 2 with OoT bundle for Christmas aren’t they
i hope this is your side job and your main one is voice acting because it would be a waste of a good voice to only use it to make videos.
I pre-ordered an already picked up the game with the holographic special edition box before I own a switch 2. So yeah I think you're right that this is a pretty important game. 😂
I held off to see how they were going to actually handle the game key card cartridges, because I buy games so that I own them or else I expect to pay no more than $20 for the game brand new, and no more than $10 if it's over a year old. Digital only games are purchased on Steam sales and similar sales on consoles. I am pleased with the way they have avoided using key cards for their own first-party games, and will completely avoid purchasing the games that only come on key cards so long as they are so expensive. That said, a key card is superior to a digital download code, because it is its own implied actual tangible proof of purchase. This means a key card enables you to use the same laws that allow emulation as long as you own the hardware and software. The key card is proof of purchase, and therefore it is different from the way that Sony and Microsoft do their "licenses" in place of actual purchase.
I'm a PC gamer as well, and I really like my GOG as well as my very inexpensive Steam games.