Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has sold a total of 2.58 million units since its release on 26th September 2024.
Now, officially, the financial data covers the first six-month period of FY2025 ending on September 30th 2024. Nintendo has played a bit fast and loose when it comes to announcing sales for new titles, so it's not known at this time whether the figures for Echoes of Wisdom just cover the six days between its release and the end of the six-month period, or if Nintendo has simply pulled the most recent data available.
Regardless, 2.58 million is a nice start for the game. Sure, it's not even close to the kind of numbers Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild have managed, but for a new top-down Zelda game that shifts its focus over to more puzzle-solving gameplay, it's decent enough.
That number will likely increase further as we move toward the end of 2024 and into 2025. We're not anticipating gangbusters for this one, but we'd expect it to eventually fall in line with Link's Awakening, which itself has sold over 6 million units.
Nintendo has also updated its hardware figures for the Nintendo Switch, noting a continued downward trend as we await news on its successor. It has also reconfirmed its upcoming Switch line-up for the remainder of 2024 and 2025, while also updating its top ten best-selling software list.
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[source nintendo.co.jp]
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Hopefully it continues to sell well, it really is a great game
Let's go for 10 million!
Love to see it and even more so considering it's in such a short period of time, fingers crossed Echoes of Wisdom will keep on selling well for a while!
Echoes is such a beautiful game. I am so glad that I experienced it. I hope more do as well.
It was never going to sell like BOTW/TOTK but 2.6m in 5 days is seriously impressive.
The BotW/TotK numbers are insane, that's not normal, not even for Zelda. Therefore, this is great to see, I hope it keeps selling well and ends up surpassing Link's Awakening. And who knows, maybe the 10 millions too!
Honestly my GotY for this year, very fun game. Not too difficult but really charming. And I absolutely loved the final dungeon/battle
The 6 million owners of LA2019 and the 4 million owners of SSHD have seen what a true Zelda is. I hope Echoes joins their ranks.
I just finished it last week. It was the only game I played for a month and I was unhappy to be done. It kept me engaged the entire game.
@sanderev came here to write this. Such a creative and polished game. My GOTY for sure
Amazing game, deserves all the sales it can get. Such is the Power of Princess Zelda!
That's awesome, but sales of the game dropped off hard after week 1. It'll top off close to around 4 million which is not bad but definitely not hitting Link's Awakening remake numbers
2.58 million in 5 days is very good IMO. I expect some decent numbers through the holiday season until they inevitably drop.
It’s a pretty fun game. Looks great on an OLED model.
Well deserved start, been thoroughly enjoying this game, oozes charm, personality and the dungeons have been great. Very near the end but don't want to finish it yet because I want to clear those side quests that have been bugging me.
Fun little game. See myself replaying this again in the future.
I adore this game, hope it gets a lot of sales down the line!
Got it at launch but found it to be really disappointing with several glaring issues
I got it digitally at launch and have really enjoyed the game. I can see replaying it trying different solutions to the puzzles.
Those sales numbers are more similar to older games in the Zelda franchise pre BotW which is still very good. Echoes of Wisdom was a really fun game and I would love to see the Princess get more games where she's playable.
With saying that though I would still love to see more 2D Zelda games that are more traditional where you use the Sword and Shield again. Using echos is fun but sometimes it feels your kinda just standing around while your echo does all the work.
I'm guessing it would sell even more during the holiday months along with Sonic X Shadow Generations, Yakuza 1, Ys X, Dragon Quest III, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Romancing SaGa 2, Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection, and Astro Bot.
If it’s 2.5 million in 5 days then that’s decent!
Really strong start, especially since this is only counting its opening few days. Well-deserved too, the game is great.
I enjoyed playing this one and will have a repeat playthrough. The main downsides were it was a bit on the short side. And the final battle.
I find that I don't enjoy the final battles for Nintendo games anymore. I actually have a friend who plays every part of the Nintendo game except for the final battles.
This one probably needed a bit more time in the oven. Will be interesting if there is a sequel in the works. It really is a one and done story. But maybe they could put the playable Zelda concept into a bigger game.
Combat-free games aren't for everybody. Especially hardened gamers. But I'd like to see Nintendo go all in on the next one.
Best it today and had allot of fun playing it. Was not a very difficult game but was still really fun.
Awesome. I will end up playing that game myself as well, but I don't know when. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
I'm taking my time with the game, but very much enjoying it so far. Glad to see it selling well! 🥳
That is a very good start for a Zelda game. İncredible to hear this. İt did not sold like Breath of the wild and Tears of the kingdom but it is oke. Well done.
Alright, I guess the Zelda fandom could get behind a Zelda game with her as the protagonist and a new mechanic. I wonder if digital sales are included in this. Now lets see how it fares during the holidays Black Friday to Christmas.
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