Zelda TotK has Nintendo's biggest ever launch week sales in France at retail (500k physical only)

[Mar1217]

SuperJortendo said:

ShadowLink93 said:

Overall the UK and Germany are slightly bigger gaming markets than France but for Nintendo and Zelda the french market is the biggest for them in Europe. From the sales data Zelda sold 500k physical in france versus 208k physical for the Uk and the installBase for the Switch is around 6.2 million for the Uk and 7 million  for France. So the Zelda franchise is disproportionately more popular in France for some reason.

I used to think French people were pompous and rude. Turns out they just have really good taste. 

You could say it is the true bastion where Nintendo shines but that's also partially due to the fact that some Japanese cultural stuff was more widely accepted during the 80's-90's which meant they were a prime market for Nintendo when they released the NES back then. Generations of nurture lead to this in the end