The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: Echoes of Wisdom Sells 2.58 Million Units

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HoloDust said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

According to Nintendo's most recent quarterly numbers, BotW has moved 31.85 million units on Switch, and Tears of the Kingdom has moved 20.61 million units.

From my POV, this is a good thing - 35% less sales on much larger user base just might signal them that they didn't fix BotW problems with TotK design choices.
So who knows, they might actually make the next one be much closer representation of design concepts of original LoZ, while keeping good things from BotW/TotK.

(Little late in responding to this...) ...but do you think Nintendo is actually seeing 20mil sales in less than a year, and becomes so upset that they change the direction of the franchise? We're talking about a game with seven years of evergreen growth competing against its successor which has only had ten months to grow. 35% drop is extraordinarily impressive, especially noting how monstrously well BotW sales figures are. Good metrics to consider are OoT v MM, SMG1 v SMG2, SMW V SMW2, DKC1 v DKC2, the DS Zeldas, etc., all of which probably saw larger percent drops.