{"id":18474,"date":"2018-04-26T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317085"},"modified":"2018-04-26T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:21:00","slug":"breath-of-the-wild-is-now-the-best-selling-zelda-game-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/breath-of-the-wild-is-now-the-best-selling-zelda-game-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Breath of the Wild is now the best-selling Zelda game to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> has officially dethroned <em>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/em> as the best selling game in the series, according to sales numbers released by Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>By the company&#8217;s count, roughly 10 million copies of <em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> have been sold since the game released last March, split between 8.48 million on Switch and 1.5 million on Wii U.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twilight Princess<\/em>, which also saw a dual-platform release, now comes in second place for the series with a lifetime 8.85 million copies sold between the GameCube and the Wii.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> was notably a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/293513\/Video_Designing_Zelda_Breath_of_the_Wilds_unconventional_mechanics.php\">departure from many conventions<\/a> favored by past games in <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em> series, something that netted the game no small amount of praise from players, the media, and fellow game developers. Early on, the Switch version of the game even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/296150\/Nintendo_sold_over_906k_Switch_consoles_in_the_US_last_month.php\">outsold the console itself<\/a> for a brief period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> sits as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/software\/index.html\">third best selling game<\/a> for the Nintendo Switch, following behind <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> at 9.22 million sold and <em>Super Mario Odyssey<\/em> at 10.41 million sold.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has officially dethroned The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as the best selling game in the series, according to sales numbers released by Nintendo. By the company&#8217;s count, roughly 10 million copies of Breath of the Wild have been sold since the game released last March, split [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474","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=18474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}