Nintendo sold 10 million copies of Zelda in three days

The Japanese giant claims it Kingdom Tears It also broke a Switch console sales record, with over 4 million physical and digital copies sold in the three Americas alone. It is also Nintendo’s fastest selling video game in this part of the world.

By comparison, nearly 30 million copies of the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which launched six years ago on the Nintendo Switch, has sold out. to Mario Kart 8 Deluxethe most popular game on the console, there are 53 million.

Many players return to visit Hyrule with all its new possibilities and mysteries, and with its standard launch The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom’s Tears For Nintendo Switch, we can’t wait to see what they create in the game and what stories they share nextsaid Susan Pennyfather, general manager of Nintendo of Canada.

” These sales numbers for the latest installment continue to show the strong momentum of the franchise and the Nintendo Switch console this year. »

The highly anticipated sequel to the hit game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild It received critical acclaim (96% on Metacritic), as well as fans who gave it an 87% rating on Metacritic.

Players can access new powers to agilely navigate islands floating above the kingdom of Hyrule, which once again offer stunning open-world vistas.

The creative possibilities of making machines also attract the community of Zelda fans, who post copious videos of their engineering feats on social networks. You can also see a lot of korok torture sessions, these little leaf-shaped figures that offer seeds (Korok seeds) when faced with small challenges.

The Legend of Zelda series, which originated in 1987 (1986 in Japan) on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), has sold over 130 million units worldwide since its inception.