{"id":98643,"date":"2019-08-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/npd_reveals_top_five_best-selling_zelda_games_of_all-time_within_the_us"},"modified":"2019-08-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T11:00:00","slug":"npd-reveals-top-five-best-selling-zelda-games-of-all-time-within-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/17\/npd-reveals-top-five-best-selling-zelda-games-of-all-time-within-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NPD Reveals Top Five Best-Selling Zelda Games Of All-Time Within The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/357abeb210180\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/357abeb210180\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Zelda Breath Of The Wild\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/357abeb210180\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/357abeb210180\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda Breath Of The Wild\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>NPD video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella yesterday shared the top five best-selling Legend of Zelda titles of all-time within the US. Unsurprisingly, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> for the Switch has taken out the top spot. According to Piscatella, this happened &#8220;some time ago&#8221; and he&#8217;s not really sure how he missed such a significant milestone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/legend_of_zelda_twilight_princess\">Twilight Princess<\/a><\/strong> for Wii was in second place and this was followed by the Nintendo 64 versions of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time\">Ocarina of Time<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_majoras_mask\">Majora\u2019s Mask<\/a><\/strong> in third and fourth. In fifth place was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/links_crossbow_training\">Link\u2019s Crossbow Training<\/a><\/strong> from the Wii generation. We\u2019re guessing the last game on this list owes a lot to the plastic zapper peripheral it was bundled with as well as its affordable pricing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mat Piscatella: Yes, Link&#8217;s Crossbow Training was a strong seller.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While no exact sales figures were revealed, Piscatella noted the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild wouldn\u2019t even \u201ccrack the top 10\u201d by itself.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about this list? Was this the top five you were expecting? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPD video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella yesterday shared the top five best-selling Legend of Zelda titles of all-time within the US. Unsurprisingly, Breath of the Wild for the Switch has taken out the top spot. According to Piscatella, this happened &#8220;some time ago&#8221; and he&#8217;s not really sure how he missed such a significant [&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-98643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98643","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=98643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}