Nintendo has released their current financial data for the end of September 2019 on the Investor Relations Information page. This includes their lists of best selling games, where The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening already made it into the top 10 of Nintendo Switch titles! This is quite impressive considering that the data was recorded on September 30th – only ten days after the game's releasee.
In that time it came quite close to Super Mario Maker 2 and even outsold Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which has sold 2.29 million units according to the newest earnings release document.
By now the remake of Link's Awakening might have already crossed the sales of its GameBoy original, which has sold 3.83 million at its time, while it already has surpassed Link's Awakening DX for the GameBoy Color with 2.22 million. It's also doing better than A Link Between Worlds back on the Nintendo 3DS, where it sold 2.5 million copies after about four months (end of March 2014).
Of course this might have to do with the massive success of Breath of the Wild, which is currently looking at 14.54 million sold copies on Nintendo Switch, where it has become the most successful Zelda game of all time. And people simply want more Zelda on that system, where Link's Awakening might have charmed them with its adorable visuals.
But in any case this is a huge success for Link's Awakening and traditional topdown Zelda as a whole, where Nintendo and GREZZO might want to follow up on that success and produce more in the same style:
- Updates and DLC for Link's Awakening
- Remakes of Oracle of Ages & Seasons
- A Zelda Dungeon Maker and/or a new multiplayer Zelda game
- A new traditional topdown Zelda game
There are many possibilities here, where for now GREZZO should probably be updating the Chamber Dungeon in Link's Awakening right now and then start working on remakes of the Oracle games. The latter could even be combined with some other ideas, e.g. adding a third Oracle episode starring Farore.
The future of 2D Zelda has never looked more promising than right now!
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