With Tears of the Kingdom, the Zelda franchise will have indeed managed to rise to the same level of stratospheric success as the biggest launch in Pokémon history. We can speak of a draw, even if the performance of Tears of the Kingdom seems a tad more notable to us: not only was the game released in May and not during the holiday season, but it doesn’t have two versions to inflate the statistics. Of course, this does not mean that the success of Tears of the Kingdom is unexpected, it is after all the direct continuation of Breath of the Wilda launch game turned open-world adventure phenomenon, which has surpassed 30 million copies distributed worldwide since its debut in March 2017.
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In all cases, Tears of the Kingdom sets a new all-platform all-time record for an exclusive game. Nintendo also indicates that the American continent alone represents over 4 million sales, a record start in Nintendo history, again. ” It is also the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game in Europe, and the fastest-selling Nintendo game on any console in Europe. “Adds a press release from Nintendo France. As for Japan, the only territory where Zelda could not do better than Pokémon, Nintendo announces the figure of 2.24 million salesor already 60% of the total of its predecessor.
With its open world formula that Nintendo intends to keep in the future, as recently confirmed producer Eiji Aonuma, the Zelda franchise now totals more than 140 million games sold worldwide. Once a fan-favorite saga, it now has a reach that very few franchises can boast of.
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