![]() (The best-selling video game ever, across any platform, is Minecraft, which has sold a jaw-dropping 238,000,000 copies. For a console exclusive to sell this well this fast is fairly unprecedented. Modern Warfare II made $800 million in sales in its first three days (so more than the roughly $700 million Tears of the Kingdom brought in), but it was available on PCs, PlayStations, and Xboxes. Most other crazy-fast sellers, like last year’s best-selling video game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, are available on multiple platforms. Tears of the Kingdom’s sales are even more impressive because it’s a Switch-exclusive game. Ultimate, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which tops the Switch standings with 53.79 million units sold. Breath of the Wild is number four (for now) on the best-selling Switch games list, sitting below Super Smash Bros. ![]() Breath of the Wild, the previous game in the Zelda series and current best seller in the franchise, has sold 29.81 million copies in the six years since it was released in March 2017. Much like Link when he’s blasted out of a canon, Tears of the Kingdom’s rank will only go higher. ![]() That staggering number makes Tears of the Kingdom the fastest-selling game in the Zelda franchise, and it’s already the 18th best-selling game for the Nintendo Switch of all time. Nintendo of America announced on May 17 that Tears of the Kingdom had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide in just three days. (That sweet, expensive set of armor seems more out of reach than millennial home ownership.) However, the game itself seems to have no problem raking in the rupees. Money is somewhat hard to come by in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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