Wyrdness said:
19 total to be exact when including TOTK unless you're including the CDi games, Zelda has been around since 85 which is 38 years as of now, in comparison other titles from that era in the likes of Mario, FF, DQ and so on go which are in the same legacy class hace significantly more releases go to the point that some titles became spin off series that have comparable amount of releases to Zelda for example the FF Adventure series became the Mana game. For reference mainline 2D mario games alone have thirteen mainline releases not far off Zelda's series total of mainline releases. |
TotK is the 20th Zelda game. You said mainline games so I did not count any spin offs, therefore I do not count any spin offs for other franchises either. Final Fantasy has 16 mainline games and Dragon Quest has 11. You can't only count mainline games for one franchise and all related releases for another.