Tears of the Kingdom Becomes Second Best-Selling Zelda Game as Switch Console Sales Near 130 Million - Hardcore Gamer

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This week, Nintendo shared their financial reports for the first quarter of the fiscal year, and it has turned out to be one of the publisher’s most profitable quarters to date driven by the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

These statistics will not include the recent release of Pikmin 4, as the first quarter ran from April 1 to June 30, 2023. But to no one’s surprise, the latest Legend of Zelda game has already been setting records for Nintendo, as the open world game managed to sell 18.5 million copies in under two months. With this report alone, Tears of the Kingdom has already become one of the top ten best-selling Switch games to date, placing it ninth above New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, as well as the second best-selling Legend of Zelda game of all time, only behind its predecessor Breath of the Wild, which has currently sold 30.7 million units. The Circana group also recently shared that Tears of the Kingdom is the second best-selling game of the year so far only behind Hogwarts Legacy, but those numbers do not include digital sales from Nintendo, so there’s a chance it could have secured the top spot.

Meanwhile, the Switch console sold an additional 3.91 million units during the latest quarter, bringing the total lifetime sales of the console to 129.53 million units. This was driven in part by the release of the special edition Tears of the Kingdom console, which was launched back in April. After passing the total lifetime sales of the Game Boy, the only Nintendo console that the Switch has left to surpass is the original DS, which currently sits at just over 154 million units. With rumors swirling that Nintendo may be planning to release a Switch successor