Tears of the Kingdom's latest numbers show it and BoTW are gaining on the rest of the Zelda series' sales

Nintendo’s latest financial numbers show that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild are definitely inching closer to matching the rest of the Zelda series in terms of combined sales.According to the Japanese publisher’s results for the second quarter of fiscal year ending in March 2024, which came to an end on September 30, 2023, the latest entry in the Zelda series racked up unit sales of 19.5 million by that date. The number means the game has already vaulted itself onto the all-time list of top selling Switch titles.In its release, Nintendo acknowledged that both of its big releases during the first half of the 2024 fiscal year have sold well, with the impressive number for May’s Zelda release sitting alongside 2.61 million unit sales for Pikmin 4, which arrived in July. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which continues to lead the Switch’s cumulative sales leaderboard - having shifted just over 57 million units since its release in April 2017 - sold 3.22 million units in the same period. Read more