 So Tears of the Kingdom is trending to be one of the largest launches in Nintendo history. In Japan it's trending to be a much bigger launch than Splatoon 3 which did, and historic nearly 2 million, and maybe even trend ahead of some Pokemon game launches in Japan as well. Also it's just trending in general in almost every single region to be one of the most pre-order games in Nintendo history, and there is an outside chance that it could top Pokemon, Scarlet, and Violet to become the biggest launch Nintendo game published by Nintendo in Nintendo history, and technically it could do that without beating Scarlet and Violet because Scarlet and Violet was a two game combo to get to that 10 million in three days mark. What if Tears of the Kingdom does 8 million in three days? That probably puts it at the number one spot in earnest. That being said, we need to talk a lot about some updated news we have for you not just with sale charts, but also with some other numbers we need to look at, and one little piece of news we're going to drop towards the end of the video about Tears of the Kingdom coming out of Japan. Now before we do all of that, I want to remind you that we are giving away a Nintendo Switch, Zelda, OLED edition, a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom as well. Also we are giving away one of those pins from PAX East. All you have to do is go down into the pinned comment or the description, click the link to enter, and we're now on our road to 133,000 subscribers, so I want to thank you guys so much for being here and please drop a like, subscribe to the channel, and maybe hit that bell icon to set it to all notifications. Alright, so let's get into this. The one we first need to look at here is something that many of you guys maybe never thought to look at, and that is let's really look at trailer views, right? Trailer views are insane, and you try to glean some data from it, and look, the final trailer for Breath of the Wild back in 2017 has over 20 million views. It is one of the most successful trailers in Nintendo history. If you sort their YouTube channel by most viewed, it is in their top 10 easily. It is one of the most successful trailers for any video game there is outside of Mario Odyssey. But here's the crazy thing as we look at that final Tears of the Kingdom trailer we got. In the first 12 days of release for Breath of the Wild's final trailer, it garnered six and a half million views. Now this is according to the Wayback Machine, which does capture time on the internet. So that's pretty crazy. If you look at the first 12 days of the Tears of the Kingdom final trailer, it is now 8.6 on its way to 9 million views. It is trending ahead of that trailer, and who knows? Maybe in a few years this could be a 30 million view trailer instead of the 20 million Breath of the Wild got. This signifies obviously that Zelda is more popular today, but it also signifies that there's a larger interest in Tears of the Kingdom 12 days after that trailer than there was in Breath of the Wild, a 30 million seller 12 days after that trailer. Now we're not done though, because we have other data we need to look at, such as metrics showing that the Zelda fanbase has grown through the Breath of the Wild, so how about these extra metrics from Japan and one from the United States? Looking at the Japan sales charts on Amazon for the past few days, Tears of the Kingdom is not only the number one selling overall item for video games, still, it has led to an explosion in Nintendo Switch sales. The white Switch OLED is sitting at number two. The neon red and blue Nintendo Switch OLED is at number four. The Splatoon 3 OLED is at number five. The Zelda OLED, which is now sold out in Japan, is at number seven and their little special addition with Tears of the Kingdom with a Zelda spoon is dropping in at number ten. Due to Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo Switch dominates the top ten with six of the top ten sales spots. Wow, big shout out to Player Essence by the way for grabbing all that Japan data. I was struggling on my side for some reason. Anyways, since starting that marketing campaign with the ten minutes of gameplay they did earlier this month, Switch has been outselling the PlayStation 5 in Japan every single week by pretty hefty margins after being behind the PlayStation 5 for over a month. So yes, just further direct evidence Zelda is driving sales. Now for overall best sellers in the United States, the Ocarina of Time Amiibo which recently got restocked. And if you haven't been paying attention guys, almost all of the Zelda Amiibo have been restocked at this point. They didn't restock them all at once, over the last six weeks there's been like a new Zelda Amiibo every few days getting restocked. So yeah, we did get that Zelda Amiibo restocked that other countries got. So people keep asking me, when are they going to restock all the Amiibo? It's not all at once, it's been sort of piecemealed in. That being said, just looking at the overall sales here with obviously Ocarina of Time sitting there at number two, the Ocarina of Time Amiibo, Tears of the Kingdom is sitting there the game itself at number three and the Zelda OLED is at number seven. Now obviously we have a much bigger market in the US, much more diverse so we're not going to see that Nintendo Switch dominance of the top ten like in Japan. But what's really cool here is in the latest Famitsu charts which just dropped today. Tears of the Kingdom topped the most wanted charts ahead of Final Fantasy 16, another massively popular game in Japan with 1,002 votes and that's a rarity to see any game top in the charts with over 1,000 votes. So that is, that's just really cool. I know Famitsu is not the biggest thing. We talked in the past about ComG, an actual retailer that owns about 1% of the market sort of showing that Zelda is dominating not only Breath of the Wild but Splatoon 3 and pretty much any other Nintendo Switch game to come out with just blasting people with pre-order numbers and look that's absolutely incredible and it just shows the huge success that we're seeing with Tears of the Kingdom and the excitement being driven before the game even comes out but we're not done because Famitsu magazine did one nice thing in their most recent release which I believe is one of their final magazines before the game comes out. They released a giant ad for Tears of the Kingdom and just take a look at this. It is, it's awesome. And here's the thing, as we're looking at this, there are so many other cool things Nintendo is doing with the marketing for Tears of the Kingdom, you know, Nintendo of America isn't necessarily doing as good of a job I would say as Nintendo of Europe right now but you know that's okay. Nintendo of America has got a couple of weeks to sort of quote unquote get their act together but if you actually look at Nintendo of Europe and you scroll down their page you're gonna see this really cool tweet yesterday saying I know why I am here it's something only I can do showing off Princess Zelda and when you open up the tweet it's it's so cool they're taking high fidelity screenshots from the most recent trailer showing all the people that might be helping you on your journey from fellow Hylians and Gorons to you know Tullin and Sidon and Riju you go to the next image and you see Link sort of majestically on his own on that bird we see Riju doing what we think is herbosa's fury then we see Sidon and Link fighting together we see that mysterious Zonai character which technically we know the name of what we're gonna leave that alone because Nintendo hasn't unveiled it yet then we see Tullin and Link doing their dive and then we see that new mysterious female character that something is Zelda maybe it's all his mom maybe it's Hylio we don't know but what's really cool is this is the first high quality screenshots we've gotten from the trailer and there's also an interesting dynamic too where people have been trying to figure out what resolution and stuff this game runs at and Digital Foundry did their own examination of trailer footage just admittedly trailer footage not direct gameplay feed and they keep saying that they think the game runs at about 900p so they speculate it'll be 900p docked 720p undocked I think that's interesting and is in line with Breath of the Wild but what's also noticeable is if you do a pixel count of all of the supposed cut scene moments they all seem to be 1080p and they also seem to have anti aliasing so I'm curious to see if we're seeing a difference in pre-release footage or what's gonna happen once we can direct capture the game basically you know what once we can direct capture and we get away from in motion you know gameplay that's been down rendered and all the stuff through YouTube what what what is actually gonna be we want to wait long Digital Foundry will drop their review at the same time everyone else's reviews drop and their review is always very different the other reviews are all talking about the game and the story and their review goes into literally a bunch of technical analysis which is pretty cool so when we do our review summary and we're bringing all the information to you guys you know a day or two before launch we'll be sure to include Digital Foundry's findings in there as well on the final you know tally of the the performance of the game you know at the FPS drops if there's certain moments where the where maybe even the resolution might be dynamic you know I guess we'll find out then anyways guys thank you so much for being here I'm so excited for Tears of the Kingdom it's hard to it's hard to contain the hype but we have so many other videos we need to get to today had a bit of a late start today so I got some other videos in the work some brand new games from Nintendo coming up here that they haven't announced yet but we got some evidence of their existence and more man who knows they'll probably be by the time I'm done putting the Zelda video up they'll drop even more Zelda news good feels like we're getting tears of the Kingdom news every day thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video