fujishig

Yeah I don't get the attach rate. People double dipping for the collectors editions? 19,000 more games sold than consoles.

fumanstan

Or people pre-emptively buying the game (and SE/CE) before being able to find a console.

slop101

Are they maybe counting the U copies sold as well?

fujishig

But why buy the vanilla game when you don't have a console? As good as the game is, there's no shortage that I'm aware of. Or are these copies that stores ordered, not what is sold through to customers?

fumanstan

I've seen people preemptively buy movies in physical disc formats they don't own yet, so who knows Or people hanging on to those SE and CE versions of the game that are actually pretty limited.

Adam Tyner

Sold through. The press release from Nintendo cites NPD's numbers for physical sales (and they're always sold through) and Nintendo's own internal numbers for digital sales.

Nintendo's explanation:

I can imagine some people being excited enough to buy a copy of the game even if they don't have a system to play it on yet.

Not in that 925K+, no. According to Nintendo:

fujishig

If true, I'm amazed Nintendo doesn't do more special editions. I guess there have been more the past few years.

slop101

Considering what they did with the NES mini, Amiibos, etc no one should be surprised at how Nintendo is adverse to making extra cash.

ultimaton

Discovering a location only makes up about 18%. The rest is divided by Korok seeds (72%!), completing shrines, and clearing the divine beasts.

Adam Tyner

Nintendo of America seems to hate 'em, but maybe this will turn their heads. Europe and Japan got all sorts of cool stuff for the Wii U that we didn't (unless you trek out to Nintendo World, anyway, and sometime not even then).

fujishig

Well, we did get Xenoblade Chronicles (WiiU), Tokyo mirage sessions FE, Bravely Default and Second, Fire Emblem Fates, soon Fire Emblem Echoes, two Breath of the Wild huge editions, and even an Amazon exclusive Pokemon steelbook. Maybe I missed some other ones. Still doesn't compare to other regions but better than before.

Adam Tyner

D'oh! I had #FE in mind as an exception when I wrote that but forgot about Xenoblade Chronicles X. As for the rest, I have to admit that I don't really keep up with the 3DS side of the world all that much.

I was thinking about stuff like the Hyrule Warriors limited editions, Mario Kart 8 with the blue shell on the little stand, the higher quality book that Super Mario Maker got in Europe/Japan (hardcover everywhere else; softcover here), the Book of Angels run for Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 (speaking of which, I was surprised that we actually got a physical copy of the first Bayonetta; NoA had me expecting just a download code), Fatal Frame getting a physical release basically everywhere the world over but North America, how it looked like Nintendo wasn't going to give Devil's Third a physical release at all in the U.S. until the eleventh hour...which, yeah, pretty much all of that is at least a couple of years in the rear view mirror.

Good to see that they've having a change of heart.

mattysemo247

I played for another hour today and getting the hang of it. I had to stop once I got to the shrine where you can stop objects in time, but I couldn't get past the bolder on the bridge.

mattysemo247

Got the paraglider and ready to start exploring now! It was funny using the amiibos and watching shit fall from the sky. Unfortunately didn't get anything too valuable for my first time, but I'll at least try checking them daily for a bit.

Noonan

Enjoy the ride! I'm jealous of you just starting the journey.

mattysemo247

I can see why everyone is digging this on the Switch. It's pretty much perfect to play in small chunks, and so far I'm strictly playing on the Wii U game pad while the kids or wife is watching something else. I just unlocked another tower to expand the map and finished a couple more shrines. I still feel like I'm a long ways away from the next story point on the map, but I'm kinda going in that general direction while using the shrine indicator and knocking those out along the way.

Using the amiibos is easily the best part, because it takes away the stress of finding items and weapons. I'm using 6 per day to drop stuff, and my inventory is always full. And running around with your pet wolf is fun watching him tear enemies apart in battle.

RichC2

Yeah, the speed of resuming the game on the Switch is what made it perfect for that platform imo. You could stop at any time, pick it up and be back where you were in the matter of 2 seconds.

Weapons, Shields and Bows become plentiful later on but it sounds like the Amiibo feature would have been nice at the beginning.

Beat the game last night at a little over 50 hours but feel like I barely scratched the surface of the game itself. My main complaints would be the game is a little too easy and there needs to be more levels like Hyrule Castle. Still, easily the best game I've played since Bloodborne.

fumanstan

http://zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/...ck-1-detailed/

More stuff in the link, including new armor. That Tingle outfit...

slop101

So no actual content, just a horde-mode, a hard-mode, and some chachkies?

Witcher 3 really spoiled me.

The Questyen

They already announced before launch that the second dlc would have the new content and the first dlc just the stuff mentioned. I'm pretty sure we've already had this discussion on these forums.

fumanstan

The map stuff looks great to me.

fumanstan

I'm still chugging along, 60+ hours in. 3/4 beasts done, probably a bunch more shrines to go. I'm pretty sure i've missed entire towns and sections of the map given some of the side quests that I have no idea what to do on.

DaveNinja

I got the para-glider and finally left the starting zone. it took me way too long to figure out that i needed to cook food to survive in the cold area; i just kept eating hot peppers, lol.

spainlinx0

You could also earn clothes that would have given you cold resistance.

RichC2

I just kept eating apples.