{"id":101390,"date":"2019-10-06T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/links_awakening_sold_more_than_430000_copies_across_europe_in_its_first_three_days"},"modified":"2019-10-06T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T06:45:00","slug":"links-awakening-sold-more-than-430000-copies-across-europe-in-its-first-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/06\/links-awakening-sold-more-than-430000-copies-across-europe-in-its-first-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Link&#8217;s Awakening Sold More Than 430,000 Copies Across Europe In Its First Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9bfcd339cfff\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9bfcd339cfff\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Links Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9bfcd339cfff\/links-awakening.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9bfcd339cfff\/links-awakening.original.jpg\" alt=\"Links Awakening\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this week, we heard how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong> had become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/links_awakening_becomes_europes_fastest-selling_switch_game_of_2019\">fastest-selling<\/a> Switch title of 2019 within Europe. Nintendo provided this information via its UK Twitter account. Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t provide any sales figures.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, the website 4Players (thanks for the heads-up, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/stories\/346241-the-legend-of-zelda-link-s-awakening-hits-430k-sold-across-europ\">GoNintendo<\/a>) has revealed the Switch remake shifted more than 430,000 copies in Europe within its first 72 hours of availability. This sales data was provided by Nintendo Germany.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clarified if this figure includes digital sales, but we do know Link&#8217;s island adventure was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendo_reveals_the_switch_eshops_most_popular_games_for_september_2019_europe\">top Switch eShop game<\/a> in Europe, in the month of September. Either way, it&#8217;s still great news for a remake that is based on a Game Boy title originally released in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Japan, Link&#8217;s Awakening got off to an equally good start \u2013 selling an estimated amount of 141,375 physical copies and making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/japanese_charts_zelda_links_awakening_gets_number_one_as_switch_lite_boosts_console_sales\">top spot debut<\/a> in the charts. We&#8217;re still waiting to see how the game has performed in the North American region.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you contributed to these sales? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we heard how The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening had become the fastest-selling Switch title of 2019 within Europe. Nintendo provided this information via its UK Twitter account. Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t provide any sales figures. Now, though, the website 4Players (thanks for the heads-up, GoNintendo) has revealed the Switch remake shifted more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}