During its yearly financial report, Nintendo revealed just how well Zelda: Breath of the Wild did: the game sold an impressive 3.82 million units on the Switch and Wii U during its first month.
Earlier today, Nintendo revealed that the Switch had sold 2.74 million units during the first month.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold 2.76 million units on the Switch and 1.08 million units on the Wii U. With those numbers, Nintendo confirmed an odd occurence for Zelda BOTW: the game has sold more units on the Switch than Switch consoles.
The game is also the only Wii U game to sell over 1 million units during the 2016 fiscal year, which started April 2016 and ended March 2017.
Here’s a complete list of the best selling Nintendo games in fiscal year 2016, by platform:
Switch
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,760,000 units
3DS
- Pokémon Sun / Moon – 15,440,000
- Super Mario Maker – 2,340,000
- Mario Kart 7 – 1,970,000
- Pokémon Omega Ruby / Pokémon Alpha Sapphire – 1,900,000
- Pokémon X / Pokémon Y – 1,410,000
- Kirby: Planet Robobot – 1,360,000
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 1,030,000
Wii U
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 1,080,000 units
