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On the 11th, Nintendo announced that the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sold 5.2 million units worldwide in its first four days on sale, including 810,000 units in Japan. On 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry” (Geha) board, a wave of posts compared the numbers to other companies’ blockbuster titles, with some praising the game’s “momentum” by lining it up against GTA6 and Marvel titles, while others pushed back, pointing out that the comparisons ignored differences in the tracking periods used. Opinions on the 810,000-unit domestic figure were likewise split — some cited factors like the hardware price hike and called it “plenty for this day and age,” while others dismissed it as “underwhelming.”
What people said
by GTA6 — and that thing isn't even out yet lol
Conveniently ignoring that the install base differs by like 4x, huh?
Source: my own imagination
Let's compare first-party to first-party, not third-party
*1 Based on Nintendo's own research. Sales figures include both packaged and digital versions.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — 5.2 million units
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1794378684/
And that Wolverine number is also a 50-day tally, by the way…
How did it come to this
Retailers might actually be torn over whether to push this or something else for the year-end shopping season in Japan
Hope Wolverine gets a sequel too
Are there really that many Wolverine victims out there
That's not Wolverine's actual sales figure — it's the line a sequel needs to clear to get greenlit
Saw in some other thread today that it was actually 2.4 million
People are trolling with "it's like double what flop-tier Wolverine sold," but doesn't that feel kind of hollow?
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The usual pattern: get hyped over the first week, then get wrecked once the cumulative totals roll in
Hitting half a million — or a million — in the first week alone is basically a Nintendo-only feat these days
The Switch 2's install base is only a quarter of what the original Switch had when Tears of the Kingdom launched, yet this sold half as many copies — so in terms of momentum, Ocarina of Time is way out ahead
Yikes, that's rough
No Zelda game sold 10 million before Breath of the Wild anyway — which "Zelda" are you even talking about?
Doesn't even come close to GTA6
Since when did GTA become a Sony game?
If we're flexing with other companies' games, GTA doesn't even come close to Minecraft either
…?
Nobody said it was a Sony game
What is this guy even talking about
Then why not compare it to Wolverine instead?
Think time-travel mechanics plus bringing proper dungeons back.
Apparently Fujibayashi, the director behind the Breath of the Wild line, is for some reason a co-producer on this remake
So they're probably planning to carry some of this game's DNA into the next new Zelda
It's one of the highest-rated games in gaming history
Even landing somewhat close to it is something to be proud of lol
No wonder the character designs have been leaning more Western lately.
The hardware price hike is probably having a real impact
On top of that, there are likely users who played during the pandemic and never came back since
A remake selling 810K in four days seems like plenty for this day and age, though
Got a source for that?
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
Nintendo has been steadily releasing remakes of its past titles, and this time the published figures were 5.2 million units sold worldwide and 810,000 in Japan over the first four days. In the thread, posters raised comparisons to other companies’ major titles (GTA6, Marvel games, etc.) and to the Switch 2’s install base, but it’s worth noting that many of these figures are based on individual posters’ memory or hearsay rather than official announcements. In particular, several posts compared raw unit totals while ignoring differences in the “tracking period” (the number of days since release varies by title), and other posters in the thread called this out. There was also discussion of the series’ growing domestic sales since Breath of the Wild, and speculation about the direction of the next installment (based on the producer lineup), but all of this is inference drawn from sales data rather than confirmed information.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Tops 5.2 Million Units Sold in 4 Days (Including 810,000 in Japan)!“
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