Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch) sold 193k at retail in Japan

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Jranation on 07 March 2017

So over 100k people didn't buy the Switch for Zelda............. Probably for 1 2 Switch!

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Miyamotoo on 07 March 2017

zorg1000 said:

KLXVER said:

The Switch has sold close to 400K in Japan already? Damn.

No, 313k

Actually sold 330k.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000003117.000007006.html.

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Nautilus on 07 March 2017

Its a great start.The Zelda sales there were also affected due to Switch units constrains.Yes I know that the attach rate could be higher, but not everyone is a Zelda fan, and being at roughly 60% is great.

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zorg1000 on 07 March 2017

Miyamotoo said:

zorg1000 said:

No, 313k

Actually sold 330k.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000003117.000007006.html.

last night i saw reports of 313k, perhaps one is media create and the other famitsu.

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bananaking21 on 07 March 2017

xl-klaudkil said:
Wow soo horizon is 200k+ that is absolutely amazing!

eh... what?

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Miyamotoo said:

zorg1000 said:

No, 313k

Actually sold 330k.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000003117.000007006.html.

Actually sold 330637.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000003117.000007006.html

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vivster said:
So what does the other half do with their Switches?

Download zelda

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AlfredoTurkey on 07 March 2017

Wright said:

For comparison sake, in the post itself of NeoGaf:

Comparison to previous 3D home console Zeldas (source):

N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time First week: 386.234 LTD: 1.143.570 Nintendo 11/21/1998
N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask FW: 314.044 LTD: 601.542 Nintendo 4/27/2000
NGC The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker FW: 287.346 LTD: 742.609 Nintendo 12/13/2002
WII The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword FW: 194.894 LTD: 349.143 Nintendo 11/23/2011
WII The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess FW: 145.068 LTD: 554.109 Nintendo 12/2/2006
NGC The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess FW: N/A LTD: 70.000 Nintendo 12/2/2006

So retail-wise, Breath of the Wild for Switch is the third least-selling 3D Zelda for homeconsoles, though we're missing the digital sales into the equation.

The lack of digital sales pales in comparison to the fact that only TP for Wii was a launch title. You can't compare launch titles with infintile install bases to those which released years into the consoles life cycle.

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hunter_alien on 07 March 2017

xl-klaudkil said:
Wow soo horizon is 200k+ that is absolutely amazing!

Nope. Probably sold less. I guess you are talking about the Tetsuya rankings. They often dont reflect the entire picture.

OT: good opening for Zelda in Japan

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celador on 07 March 2017

seems about as many as expected after hearing launch numbers for the hardware, probably sold 30k - 40k digitally too. not exactly anything else to buy

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