Zelda BotW Sells over 8.2mil by Dec 31st! (Sell thru 7.5mil)

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S.Peelman said:
Really? I wouldn't have thought the WiiU version to still sell as much. In fact I didn't think it would match TP's GC version at all, but if it did then good. Will be the best sold Zelda game soon then, and shortly after that it will hold all the franchise records.

I knew the WiiU version would stull sell at least 1 mil.  There was a small sect of WiiU owners that got that version out of principal and still doibted Switch at that time.  Then you had the people that wanted to upgrade, but with the Switch being sold out for so long they couldn't.  Many of these people opted for the WiiU version as well so that they could at least play one of, if not the most, hyped Zelda games of all time.

 

So at the end if the day, keeping the WiiU version intact was a smart move on Nintendo's part.  Could you imagine the people that got the WiiU for BotW, just to have it completely moved to Switch?  The backlash would be hard to bounce back from.  People were mad enough (and WRONGLY so) at the decision to make it a cross gen release.  I don't even want to think about how mad some would be if it were Switch only.