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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be the most successful Zelda title combined across all versions.

Yes. 55 88.71%
 
No. 3 4.84%
 
Maybe so. 4 6.45%
 
Total:62
Roar_Of_War on 26 April 2018

Zelda is finally a 10 million seller. Deserved, and it will go even higher.



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OTBWY on 26 April 2018
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Not at all surprising, but, to me personally, a huge shame.

Sorry to hear that. I know some Zelda fans didn't like the move to open world etc.



HoloDust on 26 April 2018

As a Zelda fan, I have mixed feelings about its success.

On one hand I'm happy for them, IP needed big financial success after SS.

On the other, this is my least favourite 3D Zelda (bar MM, whose Groundhog Day mechanism completely put me off), rating it at 3.5 out of 5 stars. In the end, I couldn't wait to just finish it and move on to something else, skipping practically whole Hyrule Castle (via another broken mechanism called climbing).

A this point I'm only counting on Anouma being dick (as per usual) and going against what (most) fans want (more of BotW) and chaning the formula again.



Pavolink on 26 April 2018

Congrats to BotW!
The best game I ever played, even surpassing OoT.



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Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

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Luke888 on 26 April 2018

Deservedly so, I think the Switch sales will eventually surpass those of Ocarina of Time combined (both N64 and 3DS)



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Baddman on 26 April 2018

Awesome my favorite zelda game ever.



Chorlin on 26 April 2018

The best Zelda ever, so Congrats!!



S.Peelman on 27 April 2018

Such a success for Nintendo! Finally a Zelda game that's over 10m, well deserved. And just the Switch version at 8.48m already is unbelievable. It blew past every other game in the series. Breath of the Wild is amazing, after a single playthrough of 275 hours I still don't feel like I want to be done with it.

Comparing it's sales to the other games including their remakes makes no sense though, in OoT's case the release of the 3D version came 13 years after the original and is bound to include a huge overlap in buyers. Regardless, Breath of the Wild will beat it fairly easily anyway.



DanneSandin on 27 April 2018

That's great for Zelda! I'm sure the Switch version alone will reach 10m sold, probably even 12m - 15m might be pushing it, but I don't think it's impossible.



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contestgamer on 27 April 2018

Not bad, but when counting sales inflation of games compared to the 90's its really closer to being 5 million to OOT's 7.6. Take the best selling game of this gen and compare it to the best selling game of the ps/n64 gen to find the difference then divide BOTW numbers with that difference to get pre inflation sales numbers. Decent but not ground breaking