Nintendo has published their Earnings Release for the end of 2019 on their investor pages and with it comes the supplementary information with some interesting numbers:
- Breath of the Wild: 16.34 million copies sold
- Link's Awakening: 4.19 million copies sold
Well, Breath of the Wild has been the best-selling Zelda game for two years now and it kept selling and selling to a point, where it even outsells Ocarina of Time with all its versions.
What's also remarkable is how Link's Awakening has already outsold the GameBoy original, where its 3.83 million sales had been tracked until 2004, in just four months and this despite the constant complaints about how overpriced it is. Of course this might have to do with the success of Breath of the Wild, where people are more interested in Zelda in general, but this should give Nintendo the right idea of continuing with this style of topdown Zelda games.
In any case we're looking at a promising future for Zelda in the moment. Both Breath of the Wild and Link's Awakening are amazing and they are doing well on Nintendo Switch, where hopefully Nintendo will continue what they've started with these two titles.
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