Sales numbers regarding the “innovative” Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have surfaced, revealing that the open world title managed to sell more units than the Switch itself in its launch month of March, despite the fact that both the console and game were released simultaneously.
Selling over 906,000 units in the United States, the Nintendo Switch has become the fastest-selling Nintendo console in history, Breath of the Wild however secured the sale of 925,000 units (460,000 units for Wii U), with this difference possibly being due to consumers purchasing both the limited edition for collecting and another normal version to play.
Breath of the Wild has also become the fastest-selling Nintendo launch title and the fastest-selling Zelda game at the same time, astounding feats that perhaps demonstrates that Nintendo’s decision to go in a new direction with the franchise to have been a successful one.
Further details regarding Nintendo’s success and other financial statistics will be unleashed during their fiscal-year earnings release on April 27th.
I don’t want Switch. I want this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAGVilt3Rls
It’s because the switch is still hard to get, so tons of people bought zelda first, while waiting to be able to get a switch.
It can run on an emulator so people are buying in.
What kind of half-assed pirate are you? Pirating the console but not the game? For shame!
Probably a game-ripper.
I bought Breath of the Wild before I bought a Switch. I wanted it anyway and had the money. So I thought why not support a Nintendo console I will only end up buying anyway?
I don’t because I hate Nintendo for several unrelated reasons. I will never again support Nintendo. Ever.
Says the person with a Pikachu avatar. Yep, you totally hate Nintendo.
@MARl0 No, it isn’t. That’s not how this works.
But, even if it was there is no hypocrisy involved, since I hate Pokemon, too.
@Chen-04 Pokemon is as much Nintendo as it is the Pokemon Company and Gamefreak. We all know who owns Pokemon, and you hypocrisy is no less for it.
Pokemon isn’t made by Nintendo. Lots of people seem to make that mistake,..
Lol i didnt catch that till you said something
You will not be missed. The rest of us will enjoy great games and art, and you can maintain your irrational hatred.
Or pirate instead of support…
I respect that. If anything a handful of franchises are the only reason why I’d buy a Nintendo console.
But I think if the Switch flops, Nintendo will be closer to becoming a third party developer. Similar to the fall of Sega in that regard. You can’t just keep releasing failed consoles.
Well now we know that only 900,000+ people play nintendo switch
There’s artificial scarcity though, so Nintendo could be selling easily double that number of Switches.
No store ever has it in stock and shipments are incredibly rare.