Step aside, Twilight Princess
Some fun sales tidbits made it out of Nintendo overnight as the company released itsfinancial resultsfor the fiscal year ending March 2018, fromraised Switch sale expectationstoSuper Mario Odysseyclearing 10 million copies soldto the SNES Classicmoving 5.28 million units. Here’s another one to note:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildis the top-sellingZeldagame.
Nintendohas reported8.48 million sales forBreath of the Wildon the Switch, and there’s also the Wii U version to think about, which brings an additional 1.5 million sales. That total beats outTwilight Princess‘ combined 8.85 million sales across the GameCube and Wii. (The conversation gets a little trickier when you takeOcarina of Timeand its various incarnations into consideration.)
On Switch,Breath of the Wildis surpassed byMario Kart 8 Deluxe(9.22 million) andSuper Mario Odyssey(10.41 million), but still — heck of a payoff for a beloved series that took deliberate risks.
