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[[File:BotW TGA 2017 GotY Award.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi accepting the "Game of the Year" award for {{BotW|-}} at The Game Awards 2017]] | [[File:BotW TGA 2017 GotY Award.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi accepting the "Game of the Year" award for {{BotW|-}} at The Game Awards 2017]] | ||
{{BotW|-}} was estimated to have sold approximately 1.3 million copies in its first three weeks and around 89% of Switch owners were estimated to have also purchased the game.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= It’s a strategy the company is already leaning into with its latest hardware, the Nintendo Switch, which has had a great launch carried almost single-handedly by the stellar The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While sales haven’t officially been reported, research firm SuperData estimates that 89 percent of Switch owners have bought Link’s latest open-world adventure, to the tune of 1.34 million copies. |author= Chaim Gartenberg|title= The Xbox One is struggling because video game exclusives still matter|url= https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/22/15010540/|archive= |published= March 22, 2017|retrieved= March 28, 2017|site= The Verge|type= }}</ref> Sales of the game have remained strong and as of | {{BotW|-}} was estimated to have sold approximately 1.3 million copies in its first three weeks and around 89% of Switch owners were estimated to have also purchased the game.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= It’s a strategy the company is already leaning into with its latest hardware, the Nintendo Switch, which has had a great launch carried almost single-handedly by the stellar The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While sales haven’t officially been reported, research firm SuperData estimates that 89 percent of Switch owners have bought Link’s latest open-world adventure, to the tune of 1.34 million copies. |author= Chaim Gartenberg|title= The Xbox One is struggling because video game exclusives still matter|url= https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/22/15010540/|archive= |published= March 22, 2017|retrieved= March 28, 2017|site= The Verge|type= }}</ref> Sales of the game have remained strong and as of March 31, 2024, the Switch version has sold 31.85 million copies worldwide while the Wii U version has sold 1.7 million copies worldwide as of December 31, 2021,<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 31.85 million pcs.|author= Nintendo|title= Top Selling Title Sales Units|url= https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html|archive= https://web.archive.org/web/20240507064731/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html|published= May 7, 2024|retrieved= February 6, 2024|site= Nintendo Investor Relations Information|type= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite Book|quote= |book= ''2022 CESA Games White Paper''|publisher= CESA|page= 220}}</ref> giving {{BotW|-}} a cumulative total of 33.55 million copies sold. | ||
By March 31, 2018, just thirteen months after its launch, {{BotW|-}}, with a cumulative total of 9.56 million copies sold,<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= 8.48 million pcs.|author= Nintendo|published= April 26, 2018|retrieved= April 26, 2018|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180426193642/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html|title= Top Selling Software Sales Units|site= Nintendo IR Information|type= Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Web|quote= For Wii U, while ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' was released worldwide in March and reached sales of 1.08 million units, the Wii U software sales volume during this period was 14.8 million units (46% decrease on a year-on-year basis) and hardware sales were in alignment with our expectations at the start of the fiscal year, decreasing to a sales volume of 0.76 million units (77% decrease on a year-on-year basis).|author= Nintendo|published= July 14,2017|retrieved= December 11,2017|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180224185843/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/annual1703e.pdf|title= Annual Report 2017 {{Small|for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017}}|site= Nintendo IR Information|type= Archive}}</ref> had become the best-selling game in {{TLoZ|-}} series, excluding remakes, surpassing {{TP|-}}{{'}}s cumulative total of 8.85 million copies sold as of September 30, 2015.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= {{Romanize|『ゼルダの伝説』シリーズ最多の、世界累計販売本数885万本（※）を誇る『ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス』が、フルHDとなってWii Uで甦ります。<br/><br/>※2015年9月30日時点のWii版とゲームキューブ版の合算値。自社調べ。|“Zeruda no Densetsu” shirīzu saita no, sekai ruikei hanbai hon sū 885 man-pon ( ※ ) o hokoru “Zeruda no Densetsu Towairaito Purinsesu” ga, furueichidī to natte Wii U de yomigaerimasu. ※ 2015-Nen 9 tsuki 30-nichi jiten no Wii-ban to GēmuKyūbu-ban no gassan-chi. Jisha shirabe.||3}} |author= Nintendo |published= n.d. |retrieved= September 2, 2017 |url= https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000019307 |title= ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス HD {{!}} Wii U {{!}} 任天堂 |site= Nintendo.co.jp |type=}}</ref> | By March 31, 2018, just thirteen months after its launch, {{BotW|-}}, with a cumulative total of 9.56 million copies sold,<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= 8.48 million pcs.|author= Nintendo|published= April 26, 2018|retrieved= April 26, 2018|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180426193642/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html|title= Top Selling Software Sales Units|site= Nintendo IR Information|type= Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Web|quote= For Wii U, while ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' was released worldwide in March and reached sales of 1.08 million units, the Wii U software sales volume during this period was 14.8 million units (46% decrease on a year-on-year basis) and hardware sales were in alignment with our expectations at the start of the fiscal year, decreasing to a sales volume of 0.76 million units (77% decrease on a year-on-year basis).|author= Nintendo|published= July 14,2017|retrieved= December 11,2017|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180224185843/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/annual1703e.pdf|title= Annual Report 2017 {{Small|for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017}}|site= Nintendo IR Information|type= Archive}}</ref> had become the best-selling game in {{TLoZ|-}} series, excluding remakes, surpassing {{TP|-}}{{'}}s cumulative total of 8.85 million copies sold as of September 30, 2015.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= {{Romanize|『ゼルダの伝説』シリーズ最多の、世界累計販売本数885万本（※）を誇る『ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス』が、フルHDとなってWii Uで甦ります。<br/><br/>※2015年9月30日時点のWii版とゲームキューブ版の合算値。自社調べ。|“Zeruda no Densetsu” shirīzu saita no, sekai ruikei hanbai hon sū 885 man-pon ( ※ ) o hokoru “Zeruda no Densetsu Towairaito Purinsesu” ga, furueichidī to natte Wii U de yomigaerimasu. ※ 2015-Nen 9 tsuki 30-nichi jiten no Wii-ban to GēmuKyūbu-ban no gassan-chi. Jisha shirabe.||3}} |author= Nintendo |published= n.d. |retrieved= September 2, 2017 |url= https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000019307 |title= ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス HD {{!}} Wii U {{!}} 任天堂 |site= Nintendo.co.jp |type=}}</ref> | ||
