Tears of the Kingdom Sells Over 10 Million Copies in Three Days - Hardcore Gamer
It’s safe to assume that the follow-up to 2017’s Breath of the Wild — in the form of this year’s Tears of the Kingdom, the latest entry in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series — already had the status of one of, if not the most anticipated release of 2023 in the minds of many. And while the game has barely been in the public domain to purchase for a week, in the span of mere days, the game looks to have produced another commercial, let alone critical, success for Nintendo. The company today announcing that in the span of three days, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has already crossed the ten million mark in terms of copies sold.
Not only does this mean it becomes the fastest-selling entry in the Zelda series to date, but in North America particularly — with nearly half of that ten million sold in the territory alone — Tears of the Kingdom is officially not only the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game, but it’s now the fastest-selling Nintendo game across all of the company’s past systems. The game’s current ten million figure means that globally, the game already has an attach rate of around 1:12 — based on recent hardware figures that the Switch itself has sold through around 125 million units since its release in March of 2017. Tears of the Kingdom only now needs a further 20-or-so million if it’s to pass the life-time sales of its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, which currently stands at just a shade under 30 million copies sold when it released alongside the Switch six years ago.
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