Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by rando14775 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:52AM (#35989762)

Imagine how many they would sell if it ran on something else besides a switch. I'm not paying $500 just so I can play the three switch games I'm interested in.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by dgfitz on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:59AM (#35989898)

I sure hope you don't pay $500 for hardware that retails around $199-$249.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by solarmist on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:05PM (#35994790)

I’ve said this before, but Nintendo is a hardware company that does software. Like Apple.

They make awesome games solely to sell systems.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by DerekL on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:12PM (#36008202)

I'm not sure if that's correct. While Nintendo does make some profit selling the Switch console, it's not much, and they make most of their money by selling their own games and charging fees to third-party developers. But I don't know the exact amounts, so this may be wrong.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by solarmist on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:56PM (#36026201)

I include the 3rd party fees as part of the hardware platform.

I could be wrong too, but I don’t think most of their money comes from their own games.

Actually, thinking about their other franchises like Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Smash, etc. you’re probably right, but I still fell like the way they act/view themselves is in-line with my comment.

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