{"id":952,"date":"2014-12-08T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdimports.com\/site\/?p=952"},"modified":"2014-12-08T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:49:34","slug":"which-zelda-game-is-the-greatest-selling-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdimports.com\/site\/which-zelda-game-is-the-greatest-selling-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Zelda Game is the Greatest Selling of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had the pleasure of reading an article from Zeldainformer regarding the Zelda game sales<\/a> among various game systems.<\/p>\n

It is all well and good to just show a chart with all of the games and their total sales but this article takes things a step further. Something I often wonder when I see numbers but either I don’t have the time or know how to get the answers.<\/p>\n

So Ocarina of Time is listed as the #1 Zelda game sold with 10,960,000 units purchased. At the bottom was Four Swords Adventures with just 810,000 games sold.<\/p>\n

There were Zelda games I had never heard of listed, like Link: Faces of Evil<\/a>\"\" for the Philips CD-i game console. You can see the cutscenes from the game on youtube<\/a>. Warning–they are a bit cheesy.<\/p>\n

When looking at units of Zelda games sold per console it is interesting to see that 2 of the lesser popular consoles, the N64 and Gamecube, had the highest percentages. For instance nearly\u00a01 in 4 N64 owners purchased\u00a0a copy of Ocarina of Time. I suspect that in many cases, Zelda’s release on those consoles might have been the impetus for the purchase of those consoles. Though I don’t have any numbers to back up my hypothesis.<\/p>\n

The article does not provide any numbers for total rentals nor are they able to show used game sales. I don’t hold this against the author nor do I believe this necessarily affects things greatly. Unless there is data that exists that shows that Zelda games are more\/less likely to be rented than purchased or that the games are more likely to be purchased used than new.<\/p>\n

Ready for the next Zelda game? Here’s a gameplay preview of the new Legend of Zelda for the Wii U:<\/p>\n