The Donkey Kong Bananza thread: Out now exclusively on Switch 2

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curl-6 said:

JackHandy said:

150+ million install base vs 32 million? Yeah, it's pretty null and void lol. And if you look at the tie-in, OOT was purchased by a higher percentage of Nintendo console owners than BOTW was. Not by much, but it was. There's just too many variables.

Again though, context doesn't change the end result.

At the end of the day, BOTW is the best selling Zelda game. The factors involved in why don't change that.

That's a dishonest way to go about it, curl. Let's look at the data here. Specifically, the line for the quarter ending December 2018.

You can see that at that point in time Switch LTD shipments under "Switch Family" had reached 32.27m, a figure that is only slightly lower than the Nintendo 64's lifetime shipments, making it the perfect comparison. Ocarina of Time for the N64 shipped about 7.6m copies on that level of an installed base and we can easily verify that Breath of the Wild does not match this number when we scroll to the right while we keep our focus on the line for December 2018. The games in the spreadsheet are alphabetical order and BotW is at L for Legend of Zelda.

Breath of the Wild had reached 11.68m at that point.