{"id":121084,"date":"2020-11-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_uk_launch_sales_are_nearly_324_percent_bigger_than_original"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:00:00","slug":"hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-uk-launch-sales-are-nearly-324-bigger-than-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-uk-launch-sales-are-nearly-324-bigger-than-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity UK Launch Sales Are &#8216;Nearly 324% Bigger&#8217; Than Original"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ec5b15c3bfd\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ec5b15c3bfd\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Hyrule Warriors Age Of Calamity\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ec5b15c3bfd\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ec5b15c3bfd\/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Hyrule Warriors Age Of Calamity\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity\">Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/a> has had a very decent start to life in the UK, with physical sales being significantly higher than those of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_definitive_edition\">Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition<\/a> at launch.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have seen from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/uk_charts_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_debuts_in_top_ten_but_cant_unsettle_next-gen_stars\">our UK charts round-up<\/a> earlier today, Age of Calamity managed to earn a sixth-place debut behind next-gen favourites and a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> bundle in the UK. It&#8217;s this week&#8217;s highest-charting Nintendo exclusive, pushing the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> down the pecking order for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-11-22-spider-man-miles-morales-is-ps5s-biggest-launch-game-as-call-of-duty-grabs-no-1-uk-boxed-charts\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, the game&#8217;s opening week physical sales are &#8220;nearly 324% bigger&#8221; than what Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition achieved back in May 2018. Despite this, the report also notes that it hasn&#8217;t matched the sort of sales numbers typically earned by traditional Zelda games; launch sales are 43% lower than last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a> remake, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the <strong>Dynasty Warriors<\/strong> titles don&#8217;t sell particularly well in the UK, the launch is pretty impressive \u2013 although Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> prequel&#8217; sales pitch likely helped matters.<\/p>\n<p>Have you already picked up Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity? Tell us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has had a very decent start to life in the UK, with physical sales being significantly higher than those of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition at launch. As you may have seen from our UK charts round-up earlier today, Age of Calamity managed to earn a sixth-place debut behind next-gen favourites [&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-121084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121084","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=121084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}