Will Twilight Princess outsell Ocarina of Time?

[ClaudeLv250]

Something interesting I've been keeping my eye on are the steady sales of Zelda: Twilight Princess. At first I didn't think much about it but then I looked at Ocarina of Time and I think it will be able to do the unspeakable for OoT fanboys and become the best selling Zelda title to date.

Lifetime sales as of December 21st, 2008:

Ocarina of Time: 7.60m

Twilight Princess: 4.99m (Wii) + 1.56m (GC) = 6.55m

And just for reference...

Legend of Zelda (NES): 6.51m

The original LoZ is currently the second best selling game in the series, a title Twilight Princess will usurp in a matter of weeks. The only thing standing in its way would be Ocarina of Time. TP Wii sells about 20-30k weekly and has been doing that for months (outside of spikes which could go as high as 40k). It would have to push a little over another million within the span of the rest of this generation in order to overtake OoT. I think it can, and will.

 

Regional Breakdown

	Japan	America	Others	Total
Ocarina of Time	1.46m	4.08m	2.06m	7.60m
Twilight Princess (Wii)	0.59m	2.67m	1.73m	4.99m
Twilight Princess (GC)	0.04m	1.13m	0.39m	1.56m
Legend of Zelda	1.69m	3.80m	1.02m	6.51m

Gamecube Twilight Princess is pretty much done as is the Wii version in Japan. It's really up to America and Others to push it over. It's actually interesting how close both TPs America and Others sales are to OoT in those regions.

 

Dec 12th 08 Update: I updated the numbers...there has been no movement/adjustments to TP GC, but TP Wii is 10k shy of 5m, putting the total of both versions at 6.55m. More detailed info in my latest reply.