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Forums - Sales Discussion - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild rises to #1 selling game this year

DialgaMarine said:
Great numbers, but I'm pretty sure Zelda has a much lower digital attach ratio than Horizon. I can't see a lot of people buying digital for such a large game when Switch has such a small amount of internal memory.

Probably true, but what do we talk about? 10% vs. 20%?



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Alby_da_Wolf said:
It's always good when the best seller is a really good game and not the same, n-th trite rehash of a FPS or sports franchise. Gratz Ninty, and show doubtful devs and publishers the good way!

Well...

I'm sure this month the system-seller is a shooter that is used in e-sports. And it is a sequel.



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Blood_Tears said:
Congrats to Zelda on selling well but it's a bit misleading as the thread is only about physical copies sold on vgchartz. It's not 2008 anymore and Horizon's high digital attach rate still puts it on top. I know others will just lump the Wii U and Switch versions together to get the higher total but platform specific, Zelda Switch has not actually outsold Horizon....yet that is. It is evitable but still premature. Unless Sony goes with a Horizon Christmas/BF bundle like UC4 did last year. Then it will get interesting.

Sony maybe will make it a free to beat Zelda ?Lol lol lol



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I mean... if you don't include Digital which make up 27% of Horizon's sales... sure.

We know Horizon has sold 3.4m as of April 30th (915k of which digital). If we used the same digital ratio with current Horizon Retail Figures from VGC it'd put Horizon at around 4.06m sold as of June 3rd.

But regardless of those innacuracies, Zelda has had phenomenal sales.



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Barkley said:

I mean... if you don't include Digital which make up 27% of Horizon's sales... sure.

We know Horizon has sold 3.4m as of April 30th (915k of which digital). If we used the same digital ratio with current Horizon Retail Figures from VGC it'd put Horizon at around 4.06m sold as of June 3rd.

But regardless of those innacuracies, Zelda has had phenomenal sales.

I mean, that's only true if you don't include BotW's Wii U sales, which have topped a million even without digital factored in. Which would still put Zelda slightly above Horizon with your estimate.



Medisti said:
Barkley said:

I mean... if you don't include Digital which make up 27% of Horizon's sales... sure.

We know Horizon has sold 3.4m as of April 30th (915k of which digital). If we used the same digital ratio with current Horizon Retail Figures from VGC it'd put Horizon at around 4.06m sold as of June 3rd.

But regardless of those innacuracies, Zelda has had phenomenal sales.

I mean, that's only true if you don't include BotW's Wii U sales, which have topped a million even without digital factored in. Which would still put Zelda slightly above Horizon with your estimate.

Oh I wasn't referring to Switch+WiiU for Zelda. This thread was clearly created because VGC has the Switch version alone at #1, otherwise this thread could have been made a long time ago.

Also revising my original statement, VGC has Horizon Retail overtracked, so as of June 3rd Horizon is probably closer to around 3.7 or 3.8m



Waiting end of month to see the actual sales figures.
Because it was at 2.7M by March and more than 100% attach rate.



quality at the top, nice to see that. This has a chance to outsell OoT finally.



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Alby_da_Wolf said:
It's always good when the best seller is a really good game and not the same, n-th trite rehash of a FPS or sports franchise. Gratz Ninty, and show doubtful devs and publishers the good way!

Well...

I'm sure this month the system-seller is a shooter that is used in e-sports. And it is a sequel.

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