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The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Has Sold Over 1.5 Million Copies In Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has broke a new sales milestone in Japan last week. According to the latest Famitsu charts ending January 19, 2020, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild h…

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has broke a new sales milestone in Japan last week.

According to the latest Famitsu charts ending January 19, 2020, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has sold 1,502,526 copies at retail in Japan. It took less than 3 years for the epic game to achieve this milestone. If we add the digital sales together it’d definitely be much higher.

 

[Hendrick's]

Is...that good? This only highlights how unimportant the Japanese market is.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Is...that good? This only highlights how unimportant the Japanese market is.

It’s fantastic for Zelda in Japan, which put out some pretty worrying numbers in recent years, Phantom Hourglass aside.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Sounds bad.

 

[Codes 208]

Sounds bad.

Its not. Zelda games barely pass over 500-750k in japan, nevermind 1.5mil

the franchise is definitely more focused on a western audience.

 

[VertigoOA]

Zelda being at 1.5 million while Splatoon inches closer to 3 million...

Japan is an embarrassment

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I have to admit this game disappointed me. It just didn't grab me the way previous Zelda games did. I appreciate that they tried new things, but I felt it was wayyy too bloated for it's own good and the lack of classic items such as iron boots, hookshot, and dungeons. There was no reason it needed 120 shrines to upgrade stamina and hearts. Things like terrible horse controls, and holy fuck did I hate the breaking weapons. HATED that mechanic so much, I am playing it on Cemu and I modded that out.

 

[VertigoOA]

There’s tons of stuff I don’t like about Botw. No Dungeons made me “reeeeeeeeee” to the high heavens and the shrines are poor replacement and filler content. Most of the zones were worthless and empty. And yea the weapon breakage in the game is the worst implementation of weapon durabilty in any game I have ever played.

Still best Zelda game since Majora’s Mask and the best game Nintendo has made since Metroid Prime. It had a great sense of wonder and charm.

I’ll be tempted to get a switch again for its sequel and whenever Metroid comes out of hiding for sure. And then sell it again.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Its not. Zelda games barely pass over 500-750k in japan, nevermind 1.5mil

the franchise is definitely more focused on a western audience.

so it’s not that bad? Kinda eh?

 

[-Arcadia-]

so it’s not that bad? Kinda eh?

1.5 mil is a fantastic success story for any Japanese game, to my understanding.

It might not match the something like 14 million copies of BotW sold elsewhere, or the usual numbers you’re used to hearing, but Japan is a much, much smaller country.

 

[Grinchy]

It't strange how much less important the Japanese market got than it used to be. That's not to say that selling an extra 1.5M copies of your game in a single region is bad, but it's hard to think of Japan as being some tiny gaming userbase. When I was a kid we had to wait a year or longer to get what was cutting edge from there.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Show us worldwide numbers

Thats all we need

 

[ChuyMasta]

How does it compare with Ocarina and TP?