Hyrule Warriors Hits 1 Million Sales, and Koei Tecmo Touches on Its Impact

It has been a while since any news on Hyrule Warriors has come up. It seems, at least for now, that Nintendo is not making it a point of further development. Still, the game seems to be continuing to impact Koei Tecmo’s sales, as their yearly financial report, detailing from April 2014 to March 2015, was just released, and Hyrule Warriors seems to top a lot of their other material. Also, a recent issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine had an interview with Hisashi Koinuma, head of Koei Tecmo.

Check out the details after the jump!

Game Shipments:

Hyrule Warriors sales exceeded 1 million units worldwide on Wii U

Dragon Quest Heroes is approaching 1 million units in Japan across PS3/PS4. The overseas release is scheduled for later this year.

Dead or Alive 5 free to play editions have been downloaded over 3 million times whilst the latest version of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round has sold 330,000 units across PS3/PS4/One/360 & PC.

Samurai Warriors 4-II has sold a cumulative 180,000 units in Asia across PS3/PS4/PSV.

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Creation has reached 300,000 units in Asia.

Hit mobile smartphone game, Nobunyaga GuruGuru Dungeon has seen cumulative 333,000 downloads across iOS and Android.

Toukiden Kiwami has been a hit in Japan and Asia with cumulative sales of over 200,000 units in the two regions across PSV/PSP. Overseas sales have been in line with expectations.

Koei Tecmo’s My Gamecity platform has reached over 700,000 members.

Koei Tecmo’s Musou series in Japan have exceeded 22 million units across all “Musou” series.

 
Koei Techmo says that since only abut 130,000 copies were sold in Japan, clearly, North America and Europe recieved Hyrule Warriors incredibly well. Hisashi Koinuma, speaking with Famitsu mentioned just how well it is doing himself:

“Although there were some delayed titles which caused trouble for fans, I think it was a year in which we were able to properly create new titles, collaborations and titles for existent series. Especially Hyrule Warriors and Dragon Quest Heroes contributed drastically for the results of fiscal year 2015.”

The breakdown also mentions that Hyrule Warriors is still going strong, and that the DLC is selling well.

For all the financial details on Tecmo’s fiscal year, head over to NeoGAF.

Are you glad to see that Hyrule Warriors is still doing well? Many do not call it a real Zelda game, but I mostly enjoyed myself with it. Do you think it was a good way to go on Nintendo’s part? Leave a comment below!

Source: Nintendo Everything, NeoGAF