It has a chance. Xenoblade 2 is around 2 million. This one can get there with enough word to mouth, great reviews and quarantine
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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition | Review Thread
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No, not a chance. A remade port is not going to outsell a new entry that released on the same platform and had a 2+ year head start.
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That one poster brings it up constantly. The game came out over 3 years ago, some people really need to let it go
As for Xenoblade, I'm going to guess 90/91
I think they should try and have Xenoblade 3 become closer to the highest score. Try and make it even better than 1.
I don't know if anyone feels the same but I always find it a bit annoying when these review threads go up before the reviews actually land
Can't a voting thread be seperate. I always click on the thread assuming I can read through the reviews but then can't find any
On the other hand, the first game has much better word of mouth and there's a lot of people who missed out on it because it was released late in the Wii's life span and hard to obtain (in the US at least). I'm positive it will have a higher Metacritic score than XB2 as well.
Also, first party Switch games sell like hot cakes, and a lot of people are in quarantine right now.
I feel like it's got a very good chance of surpassing XB2 in the long run.
That's definately a black & white way to look at things.
I wouldnt be so sure.. as there's more factors playing in than that.
Serious question and I'm not just being contrarian: have any Nintendo series ever actually had the second entry on a console significantly out perform the first?
The closest I could think of was Fire emblem fates vs awakening, and that was probably only due to there being some seriously funky counting going on with how they counted fates sales (e.g. iirc they counted DLC sales as additional units). Every other major example I can think of did the opposite.
I agree, but clearly people think metascore predictions are important enough. I don't get it. I could swear we had a rule in place at some point that said that review threads shouldn't go up earlier than like an hour before the reviews hit, but maybe that's just been wishful thinking on my part.
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I think the mods prefer to keep it all to one thread. So if the plan is to have voting then they'd have to do it a day earlier to give everyone in the world a chance to vote, but yeah I understand what you're saying.
yeah it bothers me too. i don't even get what a voting thread is for.
I dont know. I'm sure if one want to look it up they could find some examples.
A couple of factors why I think it's not clear that XC2 sells more than XCDE
* Xenoblade Chronicles DE has been getting a lot more love from Nintendo marketing wise. I mean a ton more.
* Current world situation
* Beloved game by fans, finally put in a situation to succeed
* Switch population is a ton higher and more popular than ever
* Shulk in Smash
It really doesn't add anything to the story, forced side questing, combat improvements are undermined by everyone having orb master by default making spamming arts much more effective than making a game plan towards each orbs
I think anything above 80 would be fine, but I think it will be over 85 just because this is such a special game and the remaster looks like such a huge step above.
The marketing thing's not really true though. XCB2 got an awful lot of marketing, multiple directs, and including a year long support of patches and updates and a massive expansion capping it off. Meanwhile Nintendo america still barely cares to even tweet about XBCDE. And despite what Era would have you think, the word of mouth on 2 was very good as well.
Basically the only of those points that apply at all and didn't also benefit XB2 is launching in the current situation , but even then, this is no Animal crossing and I hope people aren't thinking it will be.
e.g. On the UK eshop, it's preorders are only at 24th, behind basically all of Nintendos long legged mainstays. It's not doing badly on amazon US/France, but I had to laugh when I looked at how far down the list of amazon uk best sellers too (92nd, right after such hit titles as Little Friends: Dogs & Cats (Nintendo Switch), lol.). Maybe I'm just looking at it from the UK perspective where the country doesn't care much.
(Meanwhile I bought this game digitally and the limited edition, I can't help myself, lol)
They made them not look like garbage, I agree with you it's incredible how good they are
the xenoblade fanbase needs to stop having a victim complex when it comes to marketing, the games get plently aside from the original release outside japan/europe
They modelled proper faces with moveable eyes and mouths instead of plastering textures that give the illusion of facial features.
Nice, where'd you order it from to get it so early? I'm still waiting on Game to give me any kind of delivery update :/
Hell yeah!
Can you confirm which songs are on the vinyl/digital download?
Hell yeah!
I hope no one meltdowns if the scores don't go their way. In the end it's whatever and looking at history, generally rereleases or remasters score less than the original.
Weird how my order says it was sent out but won't arrive until the 29th when this shop usually only takes one day to deliver. Guess I'll see tomorrow.
Man on the us eshop it's near the bottom of the featured page despite coming out in 2 days, while paper mario is in the 2nd slot of the featured page and that game isn't coming out for 2 months.
Let's agree to disagree about the first part though, I definately see a difference on the european Nintendo accounts at least.
I cant imagine anyone actually thinking XC is Animal Crossing so obviously no one is expecting bat shit crazy numbers :P. Still, as per every report out there, game sales breaking records the last few months. Positive impact will obviously happen to XC numbers as well. In what capacity we'll see...
Though a bit surprised you dont agree with the other points - obviously popularity and huge install base could have impact on XC DE, even more so than the install base when XC2 launched. There were less than 10M units sold at the time of XC2 release, now more than 50M
XC has never been put in a situation to succeed before, Wii release for obvious reasons, 3DS release locked to New 3DS and the Wii U digital release.. well it was on the flippin Wii U.
Smash influence is ofc a joker, it might or might not - it's definately not a negative and in no way did it affect XC2 at least.
But whatever, it doesnt matter - it's cool that Nintendo has this much faith in the game at least. I hope it's succesful to =)
90-94. This looks on the level of the FF12 remaster. Same great game which just looks and plays a bit nicer, so around the original score.
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my final guess is 89.
i don't get the annoyance with the thread going up early, by the way. you can just ignore it until the reviews come (there's a countdown in the OP).
i don't get the annoyance with the thread going up early, by the way. you can just ignore it until the reviews come (there's a countdown in the OP).
Tried TheGameCollection?
I've ordered from there multiple times and I dont even live in the UK. They've never failed me..
It's what happens when you so strongly meld your identity with the public reception of a video game.
Is it not usually the norm to send games out on Wednesdays for a Thursday arrival? Or did you mean you have it already?
Shopto are super reputable, been using them since 2009
Thegamecollection and simplygames are very good for if you want to get your games a day or two early fyi
