Today’s sales forecasts pour more fuel on those flames. He also described Nintendo as being “in the beginning of a death spiral”. As TC columnist MG Siegler put it back in September, it’s “a poor concept accentuated by poor hardware”. The other point to note is that the Wii U itself just isn’t very good. Meanwhile, the home console market has been increasingly dominated by Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation - leaving Nintendo to be squeezed out by those more powerful home consoles at the higher end, attracting pro gamers with huge franchise titles such as Grand Theft Auto, and driven out at the lower end by the consumerization of portable gaming via mainstream mobile devices. Ownership of app-supporting mobile devices has exploded since the original Wii’s hey-day, of circa 2006, shifting the gaming goalposts from the living room to people’s pockets. The response makes it the third most successful new entry in the franchise ever, behind reigning champion The Wind Waker, which launched on the GameCube in 2003, and Twilight Princess, which saw release on GameCube and Wii in 2006.Both Nintendo’s devices are facing fierce competition from non-specialist consumer hardware fuelled by thousands of often inexpensive games apps - aka the smartphones and tablets running on platforms such as Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iOS. Zelda was additionally released on the Wii U, but sales data shows 78 per cent of copies sold were for the Switch version. The latter had a couple of days head start on Breath of the Wild though, and while it's exclusive to Sony's platform, it also has a much larger installed user base. WIRED has asked Nintendo for clarification and will update this story accordingly.Įither way, looking at UK figures, the response to Zelda was enough to instantly put the game in at number two on the all-formats charts, just behind Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. It's not entirely clear how this last point has been calculated, given Wii Sports was a pack-in game when the Wii launched. "Launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has not only been bestowed with some of the highest review scores in gaming history, it's also the biggest-selling Nintendo launch title ever in Europe, even outselling Wii Sports in first weekend sales," Nintendo UK said. Sales for the open-world epic have exceeded previous titans such as Super Mario 64. Not only has it invited incredible review scores and maintained a Metacritic score of 98, it's become the best-selling standalone launch title in Nintendo history. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been – somewhat expectedly – the star of the launch. Read more: The best Nintendo Switch games
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