The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Gets Random Sales Spike

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While creating an objective list of the best video games of all time is more or less impossible, Nintendo’s long-lived action-adventure seriesThe Legend of Zelda comes up commonly in these conversations. In fact, in 2021, gaming outlet IGN included multiple Zelda games in its all-time top ten, with the recent The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild claiming the number one spot. Proven a massive success by just about every commonly-used industry metric, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild continues to sell well in 2022, and it saw an all-new sales surge in the UK during the first week of April.

As relayed by GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring, Nintendo’s 2017 Zelda franchise installment saw a 51% jump in boxed retail in early April, suggesting that the title, which crossed the 25 million total sales mark in December 2021, still has a surprising amount of steam despite Nintendo’s aversion to lowering the prices of its first-party titles. Dring joked that the publisher “might as well just cancel the sequel” given the continued success of the half-decade-old game, though hype for the upcoming second Switch-centric Zelda title could be part of the reason for the sudden sales surge.

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Hardware sales could be a significant contributing factor in this Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild retail bump; the Switch dominated console sales in 2021 owing partly to the continued shortage of other ninth-gen consoles. Given the game’s notoriety, it seems like a must-buy for new Switch players despite the unwavering premium price point.

Oddly enough, another factor in the title’s continued success could be the recent debut of From Software’s Elden Ring. While the two