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S.Peelman on 05 July 2015
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Boutros said:
S.Peelman said:
Boutros said:

Actually VGC is overtracking Skyward Sword. It was at like 3.7 million as of March 2015.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=963700

Skyward Sword was super frontloaded. It really didn't do much after those first couple of months and that 3.5 million was shipped so that shipment lasted for a few more months.

So it seems to me like 4 million is a good objective for Zelda Wii U.

Where does that 3.7m Skyward Sword number come from? It says 'Nintendo', but where exactly? Nintendo never gave any official numbers on the game after 2011 as far as I know, they're nowhere to be found in any case. I doubt it was so unbelievably front-loaded that 3.5m people rushed out to buy the first month and then only 200k more did the following 4 years (!). More importantly that list also implies A Link Between Worlds didn't sell a single copy last year because there it's still at 2.51m. Where Nintendo said it was march 2014 so that prooves the list wrong right there.

I think those numbers for a lot of those games aren't really up to 'march 2015', rather they are the 'last known sales' up to march 2015. Skyward is over 4m, ALBW is at 3m most likely

3.5m was shipped. Meaning they clearly overshipped. But yeah looking again it seems like the Skyward Sword number is as of December 2013. VGC is still overtracking it a little. He mentions it again here:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145998742&postcount=559

And the guy had access to an exhaustive list of Nintendo software sales that sold 1m+ published on Nintendo's website.

Mmm, interesting. So what's missing with Skyward Sword is december 2013 to march 2015. One and a half year more or less. I agree it shouldn't have sold much beyond that then. A Link Between Worlds was never updated beyond march 2014 it seems, which makes it annoying because apparently this list has sales for games up to different periods in time which makes it hard to compare and rank. Calling this 'up to march 2015' is probably a bit optimistic then, who knows what other sales numbers (from both this and last generation and maybe even old generations) are old news. Why doesn't Nintendo just update every number .