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A screenshot claiming that “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake” had been overtaken by Roblox-related products on Amazon US’s best-seller rankings was posted to 5channel’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board and stirred up debate. But a counter-screenshot soon surfaced showing that “once you exclude gift cards, Zelda is still #1,” splitting the thread over which ranking people were even looking at. The discussion then spiraled into claims that GTA6 has never once beaten Roblox in the first place, Roblox’s own stock price cratering, and reports that the Xbox version of GTA6 didn’t even crack the rankings.
What people said
What do you want me to do about it?
What do you even want us to do about it? Just spit it out already, jackass.
What's the deal with GTA6 fanboys using Roblox as their bludgeon, only to get bludgeoned by Roblox itself?
Of course it hasn't — GTA6 preorders only opened three months ago.
It's literally just an image showing GTA getting crushed by both Roblox and Ocarina of Time in the Amazon rankings.
So it hasn't won since preorders opened either, right? What's "of course" about that?
Wait, are you saying Zelda was already out when GTA6 preorders opened?
Huh?
Huh?
If you look at the ranking that excludes gift cards, Zelda's still #1 right now, you know?
Does the 🐷 (mocking nickname for Xbox fans) not even understand how Amazon's ranking system works?
Aren't the "shō-chan" crowd (a mocking 5ch nickname) also unconsciously lowering the bar and expectations for GTA6?
That's the hurdle the 🐷 (Xbox fanboy) set, isn't it?
Isn't that just on PC, though?
Meanwhile, there's Tears of the Kingdom.
Breath of the Wild is still selling to this day too — and it's never even been put on sale.
Never imagined it'd lose to the PS5 even before the price hike. Seriously, what happens once GTA6 actually drops?
And according to that, Zelda's still #1 right now ♥
https://www.amazon.com/Legend-ZeldaTM-Ocarina-Nintendo-Switch-2/dp/B0HJ6F7L6T
Where did you even crop that from? Post a link to the actual source.
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1789681335/
The second this got exposed, people started spamming distraction threads like this one lol. It's blatant to the point of being childish, lol
The one who really needs to be worried is Nintendo, since their user base overlaps with Roblox's the most — tons of kids are being pulled away.
https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-version-gta-6-not-among-top-100-amazon/
Guess the Xbox version might be the only one not hitting #1, lol
🐷💦 <"It's not supposed to be #1… *oink*!!"
Meanwhile Zelda dropped out of #1 within a week…
Did the Xbox fanboy lie again?
■ Roblox shares plunge sharply after earnings, still feeling the impact of child-safety measures — U.S. stocks
https://kabutan.jp/news/marketnews/?b=n202608010005
■ Did protecting kids tank the stock price? Roblox faces a safety-vs-growth dilemma
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/7b47597946c56eb887465b066853679feccbf40a
■ Roblox's 70% stock crash hands Xbox a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/102355
■ Gaming's "YouTube," Roblox, loses users as stock plunges over 70% in a year
https://newspicks.com/trends/2270/
And yet Zelda still loses to that very Roblox 😭
And Zelda still lost to that very Roblox that everyone's giving up on 😭
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Amazon’s “Best Sellers” listings actually track two separate rankings — one that includes gift cards and prepaid cards, and one that excludes them — and which one you’re looking at changes the standings. That’s why the screenshots posted in the thread contradicted each other: the one showing Roblox ahead was most likely the “cards included” ranking, while the one showing Zelda at #1 was the “cards excluded” ranking — both probably from the very same day. This kind of “US Amazon ranking” talking point is easy to misread as reflecting actual units sold, when it’s really just a snapshot of the site’s internal ranking at a single moment. As for the Roblox stock plunge that came up in the discussion, that reflects investors reacting to rising costs and slowing growth tied to stronger child-safety measures — not the game itself becoming unpopular. Likewise, the claim that GTA6 has never beaten Roblox-related products is really just a ranking comparison between fundamentally different kinds of products, and doesn’t indicate which one is actually outselling the other.
※This article was compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Sad News] Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Already Losing to Roblox on US Amazon lol.”
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