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Who would want a Zelda game that gives us lore on Fierce Deity?

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No way, Fierce Deity is lame! 1 12.50%
 
Sean Bean made me cry in Lord of the Rings 2 25.00%
 
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FarleyMcFirefly on 17 February 2015

VGChartz: As of Dec 26, 2015

Main series:

 

1 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64 1998 Action Nintendo 4.10 1.89 1.45 0.16 7.60
2 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Wii 2006 Action Nintendo 3.80 2.14 0.60 0.69 7.22
3 The Legend of Zelda NES 1986 Action Nintendo 3.74 0.93 1.69 0.14 6.51
4 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass DS 2007 Action Nintendo 1.88 1.80 0.95 0.48 5.12
5 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past SNES 1991 Action Nintendo 2.42 0.91 1.15 0.13 4.61
6 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker GC 2002 Action Nintendo 2.60 0.99 0.89 0.13 4.60
7 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link NES 1987 Adventure Nintendo 2.19 0.50 1.61 0.08 4.38
8 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Wii 2011 Action Nintendo 2.10 1.17 0.37 0.39 4.03
9 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS 2011 Action Nintendo 1.89 1.15 0.60 0.28 3.91
10 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening GB 1992 Action Nintendo 2.21 0.96 0.54 0.13 3.83
11 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask N64 2000 Action Nintendo 1.90 0.67 0.73 0.06 3.36
12 The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks DS 2009 Action Nintendo 1.41 0.92 0.74 0.27 3.34
13 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 3DS 2013 Action Nintendo 1.29 0.85 0.45 0.19 2.79
14 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past GBA 2002 Action Nintendo 1.75 0.52 0.33 0.10 2.70
15 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX GB 1998 Adventure Nintendo 1.00 0.63 0.45 0.13 2.22
16 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D 3DS 2015 Action Nintendo 1.01 0.49 0.45 0.15 2.11
17 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages GB 2001 Action Nintendo 0.92 0.53 0.41 0.06 1.92
18 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons GB 2001 Adventure Nintendo 0.87 0.52 0.41 0.06 1.86
19 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess GC 2006 Action Nintendo 1.15 0.36 0.04 0.04 1.59
20 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker WiiU 2013 Action Nintendo 0.85 0.46 0.13 0.12 1.56
21 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap GBA 2004 Action Nintendo 0.89 0.22 0.22 0.10 1.42
22 Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda GBA 2004 Adventure Nintendo 0.46 0.17 0.24 0.02 0.89
23 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures GC 2004 Action Nintendo 0.63 0.16 0.00 0.02 0.81
24 The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes 3DS 2015 Action Nintendo 0.37 0.23 0.13 0.06 0.79
25 Classic NES Series: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link GBA 2004 Adventure Nintendo 0.37 0.14 0.17 0.01 0.70
26 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap(weekly JP sales) GBA N/A Action N/A 0.00 0.00 0.27 0.01 0.27

 


                                                                                                                                                                                                         Total: 80.17

Spinoffs: 

1 Link's Crossbow Training Wii 2007
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4.99
2 Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland DS 2006
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0.25
3 Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip DS 2009
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0.11
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Hyrule Warriors WiiU 2014 Action Nintendo



1.15
Hyrule Warriors 3DS 2016 Action Nintendo          










                                                                                                                                                                                                    Total:   6.50

Combined Total: 86.67

This obviously does not include digital sales. 

Do you think the series can hit 100 million early into the next generation of consoles? 

Do you think the mainline series will ever hit 100 million?

Combined Zelda game sales (in millions):

1. Ocarina of Time (N64, 3DS): 11.51
2. Twilight Princess (Wii, NGC): 8.82
3. The Legend of Zelda (NES, GBA): 7.40
4. A Link to the Past (SNES, GBA): 7.31
5. The Wind Waker (NGC, Wii U): 6.16
6. Link's Awakening (GB, GBC): 6.05
7. Majora's Mask (N64, 3DS): 5.47
8. Phantom Hourglass (DS): 5.12
9. The Adventure of Link (NES, GBA): 5.08
10. Skyward Sword (Wii): 4.03
11. Oracle of Ages/Seasons (GBC): 3.78
12. Spirit Tracks (DS): 3.34
13. A Link Between Worlds (3DS): 2.79
14. The Minish Cap (GBA): 1.69
15. Four Swords Adventures (NGC): 0.81
16. Triforce Heroes (3DS): 0.79

 

 



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Ryng on 17 February 2015

Hope for next generation... maybe by 2025?

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imo 3 million is too low.

It is already at +1M in just 2 week, so... i think that is POSSIBLE 5,000,000 lifetime.

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soon... very soon.



TheGoldenBoy on 17 February 2015

Probably next generation.



vivster on 17 February 2015

Quite soon if they keep porting their classics to other platforms.



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Darwinianevolution on 17 February 2015

You are forgetting the CD-i games XD.

It's really weird the series hasn't reached the 100m milestone, specially when Mario Kart, Pokemon and the Wii series reached it before Zelda.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 17 February 2015

Either next or the one after



                  

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FarleyMcFirefly on 17 February 2015
Darwinianevolution said:
You are forgetting the CD-i games XD.

It's really weird the series hasn't reached the 100m milestone, specially when Mario Kart, Pokemon and the Wii series reached it before Zelda.

How could I possibly forget those :P



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retroking1981 on 17 February 2015

For the mainline series 8 more games at least.

Including spin offs maybe one game less at best.

The series on generations are as follows (mainline series):

NES: 2
SNES/GB: 3
N64/ GBC: 4
GCN/GBA: 6
Wii/DS: 4
Wii U/3DS: 4 and counting - at least one more?

Thats 3.83 games per gen. Round that up to 4 and we have a 2 generation wait.

Minus a game for the new Wii U one and take away one more game for spin off tat and that leaves a 6 game wait.

My guess would be mid to late 9th gen which will be 2025ish.



FarleyMcFirefly on 22 February 2015
retroking1981 said:

For the mainline series 8 more games at least.

Including spin offs maybe one game less at best.

The series on generations are as follows (mainline series):

NES: 2
SNES/GB: 3
N64/ GBC: 4
GCN/GBA: 6
Wii/DS: 4
Wii U/3DS: 4 and counting - at least one more?

Thats 3.83 games per gen. Round that up to 4 and we have a 2 generation wait.

Minus a game for the new Wii U one and take away one more game for spin off tat and that leaves a 6 game wait.

My guess would be mid to late 9th gen which will be 2025ish.


If 3 million per mainline game is the new normal than it would take 8 more games. I hope it doesn't take that long. With Majora's Mask 3D's strong release week, and the fact that 3 other games are still on the market selling, plus unaccounted digital sales, I don't think it would take 8 more (including spinoffs, unless they release a lot more spinoffs for Wii U)



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S.Peelman on 22 February 2015

Probably won't be in a while sadly.

The series deserves a 10m seller, but Ocarina couldn't do it, and Twilight Princess especially couldn't do it. Counting single SKU's at least. Zelda U highly likely isn't going to do it either (that would be impressive) so with an average of 5m for the big games and 3m for the secondary games, it's going to take at least until the end of the next generation, probably even into the 10th. The spin-offs aren't going to speed up the process much, seeing as it's doubtful we'll see another Crossbow Training-like hit anytime soon.