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oniyide on 18 February 2015
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zorg1000 said:
oniyide said:

we also have OOT original beng the best selling one in the series despited being released on a system with about 30+mil install base. Im just using MM3d as further evidence for my case, but lets see how the game legs out. It might not catch ALBW but it can get close

2D Legend of Zelda vs 3D Legend of Zelda

Legend of Zelda-6.51m vs Ocarina of Time-7.60m

Phantom Hourglass-5.05m vs Twilight Princess-7.07m

Link to the Past-4.61m vs Wind Waker-4.60m

Adventure of Link-4.38m vs Skyward Sword-3.88m

Link's Awakening-3.83m vs Majora's Mask-3.36m

Oracle of Ages/Seasons-3.79m

Spirit Tracks-3.29m

Link Between Worlds-2.40m

Minish Cap-1.42m

So ya 3D Zelda does have the 2 biggest entries in the series but overall the sales are pretty similar. Link Between Worlds will probably leg it out past 3m leaving Minish Cap as the only mainline entry not to surpass 3m but releasing at the same time as DS probably has alot to do with that. 2D Zelda typically sells 3-5 million and 3D Zelda typically sells 3-7 million.

If we go by average, 2D Zelda is at 3.92m (4.23 excluding Minish Cap, will grow a bit as LBW continues selling) and 3D Zelda at 5.30m so 3D is bigger but not by a huge amount.


oh i know, still kinda incredible considering the first 3d one is didn release till their 3rd home console. Zelda and GTA seem to be the only series that actually got more popular once it went 3d