The Legend of Zelda: A Sales History
Posted on June 21 2012 by Destiny
Vgchartz has recently posted some figures on how many Legend of Zelda games sold for each title. Which game came out on top for sales may or may not surprise you, the answer is pretty interesting! I have never payed attention much to sales so I’ll admit, I was a little caught off guard, but now that I think about it is does not seemed that far fetched. Although what sold the least amount of units was not that surprising.
Anyways, make the jump to see the charts and find out which game sold the most!
Sales Overview
In the chart above, the Legend of Zelda franchise for consoles has sold 38.90 million units. Looking at the release dates the majority of the games were released in the 2000’s, four. With one released in the 1980’s, two in the 1990’s, and one in the 2010’s. There was one main game released on the NES ( VGChartz does not have any sales figures for The Adventure of Link), one for the SNES, two for the Nintendo 64, three on the game GameCube and two on the Wii. Twilight Princess is the only mainline console game to be released on two consoles.
Twilight Princess with both versions combined is the bestselling Zelda game, but if you separate the two than Ocarina of Time is the bestselling. Twilight Princess has sold 6.51 million units on the Wii and 1.59 million units on the GameCube. Four Swords is the clear outlier, not even selling a million units.
Looking at the bar graph above it is easy to see that The Legend of Zelda franchise has not had consistent sales over its lifetimes. One thing that does stick out that on the platforms with more than one Zelda game is that the first game is always the bestselling. Ocarina of Time outsold Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker outsold Four Swords and the GameCube version of Twilight Princess, and the Wii version of Twilight Princess outsold Skyward Sword.
Looking at the sales for each console in a pie chart (Twilight Princess sales have been split up), the NES sold 6.51 million units, the SNES 4.61 million units, N64 10.96 million units, GameCube 7.00 million units, and the Wii 9.82 million units. The average sales per game on each console is 6.51 million on the NES, 4.61 million on the SNES, 5.48 million on the N64, 2.33 million on the GameCube, and 4.91 million on the Wii.
Weekly Sales
So what did you think? Expect Twilight Princess to be first? Think Skyward Sword can still surpass it? Tell us in the comments and don’t forget to check out the full article here!
Source: Vgchartz
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