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

I was right :

Nice and well deserved as much as I got from the videos I saw.

Of course this is only anecdotal evidence but Imma gonna guess the game has already sold most of it's first shipment drop in physical sales so far. It doesn't happen often that my local Walmart has no copies left for any game but this one has fled faster than even Pokémon did !

Switch Friend Code : 3905-6122-2909 

2.24 million copies were sold in three days.Wow.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2023/230517.html

So it has outsold every pre-BOTW Zelda in 3 days, holy guacamole.

A huge launch was always to be expected, because Breath of the Wild's sales were massive. Going forward, I don't see much of a reason why Tears of the Kingdom's legs should be in danger. The reused overworld is offset by enough new mechanics, enemies and locations as well as completely new shrines, so it's feasible that the 20m mark (global sales) can be crossed by the end of 2023.

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