 The mad lads did it guys. Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies. Actually according to Nintendo, more than 10 million copies in 3 days. If you remember, the last time Nintendo excitedly talked about launch sales was Scarlet and Violet. When they boldly stated that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were the fastest selling Nintendo published games in history moving 10 million copies in 3 days. Well now, Tears of the Kingdom has moved more than 10 million copies in 3 days. Now we aren't 100% sure if it moved a little bit more units than Pokemon Scarlet and Violet because of the way they worded the announcements. So it is possible that Scarlet and Violet might technically still be the leader, but what is clear is that a Nintendo internally created, self published, and not reliant on dual release game just sold 10 million copies north of 10 million copies in 3 days. To me, this makes Tears of the Kingdom the fastest selling Nintendo game of all time. 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I mean it's a hair short of 30 million but if you include the Wii U version it's a 30 million seller and that in and of itself is just incredible. When you think back to like the best selling individual system game to come out being Twilight Princess in the past even Twilight Princess was a dual release but we had sold over 8 million copies. I'm sure if you throw in like you know the Twilight Princess HD version then it's over 10 you throw in all the re-releases are working at a time it's probably well over 10 maybe even over 20 million but people don't really consider the re-releases when you're talking about how well a game sells right re-releases and remasters and all that are great but when we talk about how well you know a game sold we're talking about what did it sell on its original platforms during its heyday not combining sales of you know other versions of it over time. I don't think that's a fair way to compare because then it comes down to like well how many times did they re-release it like hey Acrea time has been on several different e-shops that you had to re-buy it on it's now on NSO they also had the Acrea time 3D version whereas like others all the games some of them have never been re-released so I do think that we need to be a little considerate when doing comparisons like that but what we can do is talk about how this game is launched because you see 10 million sales north of 10 million sales in three days is a number that as someone who's been covering Zelda games since I was 12 it just seems unfathomable to me this is the sort of sales and I mentioned this through my live stream yesterday that it really propels the Zelda franchise into a mega IP now what that is a mega IP I don't even know if this is the term anyone uses this is just a term I've been using to describe IPs that transcend triple-a gaming so triple-a gaming for the most part just means high budget high effort and attempting to sell really well for that high budget and that high effort you know it is a premium experience that's what triple-a was is supposed to mean or used to mean obviously it's been muddled because we've gotten a number of triple-a games that have failed to deliver on some of those prospects who are over promised and you know with cyberpunk 2077 or red fall you know we've had a number of triple-a games just kind of fall on their face a little bit so the triple-a name you know over the years has been a bit tarnished you know used to basically mean a tier B tier C tier you know single a double-a triple-a but here's the thing a mega IP to me transcends the typical just hey it's just a high budget game where they tried really hard and it performed well and we got good reviews this transcends that okay there are transcendent IPs out there mega IPs let me give you some examples beyond Zelda now Mario Mario's a mega IP right whether it's the mainline Mario games where it's the spin-off where you have like Mario Kart doing 58 million whether it's the Mario movie now at the fourth highest grossing box office animated film of all time it's very clear that Mario has become a transcendent or as I like to call it a mega IP right it's probably been a mega IP for a long time but that's one example Pokemon another mega IP and it doesn't you know one thing he's having common now is they have existences outside of gaming but you don't have to have that right a mega IP doesn't necessarily even have to be a game but it is something that is transcendent in a way it doesn't just sell for five million six million per game it sells a lot it has the potential to sell a lot and a potential to reach a much broader audience Super Mario Odyssey selling 25 million 1.2 billion at the box office yeah Mario is a transcendent IP Mario Kart 58 million yeah it's a mega IP another mega IP with Pokemon obviously Pokemon's been a mega IP for some time between its movies its TV shows and yeah the game the card game etc etc etc right no doubt that that Pokemon's a mega IP there are other mega pies the IPs out there I would argue as an example Spider-Man's a mega IP right not only are the games doing incredibly well right now on top of that you have the movies and all that stuff so yeah Spider-Man's a mega IP in fact Spider-Man's been really popular for a long time just not the comic books and all that but even looking at how many times have they rebooted Spider-Man on the movie theater because Spider-Man keeps performing really well in the movie theater right it's been popular even before the whole MCU thing blew up so yeah that's another mega IP Star Wars is another mega IP so there are a number of mega IPs out there and I feel like now that Zelda's done this twice and I always felt like it needed to repeat Breath of the Wild success in order to be called a mega IP because to become a mega IP you need to have sustained success if you have a one-off that blows up let's say Breath of the Wild you does 30 let's say Breath of the Wild has 50 million copies but then the next game comes out and it sells 8 million still really good numbers for a Zelda game but pretty disappointing compared to Breath of the Wild then you can start to call Breath of the Wild a fluke game right it was a fluke not a fluke review wise but a fluke in terms of its appeal right it didn't really make Zelda blow up it just had a one-off success as an example Wii Sports right Wii Sports blew up right incredible but none of the subsequent releases of versions of Wii Sports was really ever able to get back to what the original did making the original feel like a fluke so Wii Sports isn't really a mega IP right Nintendo Switch Sports etc etc those sports IPs for Nintendo even though they had one that sold way better than Breath of the Wild it was a one-off so I wouldn't call that a mega IP however Zelda is because not only did it have one sell 30 million it's now got another crossing 10 clearly gonna sell 20 million plus and I think if you're in that 20 million plus territory or games and you get to their pretty consistency or get really close pretty consistently yeah that makes you a mega IP and I think there are levels to this as an example I do think Kirby is starting to enter new levels as well when you look at the Kirby franchise you know it's usually one of those you can consistently rely to sell a couple million it's usually made on a budget it's not you know they can bust out these games every year every other year but they did something different with their last Kirby game with Kirby in the Forgotten Land they put more budget into it they put more time into it and they took it in a new direction and ultimately it led to the best-selling Kirby game of all time selling five six million copies and five six million copies is right around what Zelda games have been doing for 30 plus years and Zelda games were triple A experiences so I think Kirby in the Forgotten Land might be the first time Kirby has released a triple A game so now if Kirby can do it again with the next release then you start to look at Kirby differently as a potential triple A game moving forward same thing could happen to Luigi's Mansion here Luigi's Mansion 3 selling what it did well if the next one starts to hit 20 million suddenly maybe Luigi's Mansion becomes a mega IP of course you can argue Luigi could just be swept in with the whole Mario thing and I understand that explanation but the point is that there aren't a ton of mega IPs I would throw out there Lord of the Rings is probably another mega IP but I just when it comes to IPs that started as video games I don't really think that there's a lot of tentpole mega IPs there are things like I got a war is a big deal what has got a war my mega IP does it sell 20 million plus consistently no not really I don't even know if it's sold 20 million plus one time so it to me it's an interesting prospect to consider that tears of the kingdom has now repeated that breath of the wild success again we don't know where the final sales are gonna end up because that's gonna be years down the road but to sell 10 million in three days I mean that that is utterly incredible that is more copies sold in three days than most of PlayStation's exclusive libraries lifetime-to-date sales ever across all PlayStation platforms that's insane now they do have some games that have sold more than 10 million but most of their exclusives don't sell 10 million plus and Nintendo just pulled that off with Zelda in three days so again Zelda sort of become this mega IP I'm really excited about that of course I think it's well deserved and it kind of just goes to show $70 DLC what are we talking about people are buying the game anyways oh and guess what people aren't really disappointed when they bought the game all the game leaked you know almost two weeks early yeah and guess what it still didn't hurt the sales no matter what the naysayers say no matter the frame rate drops no matter whatever people want to talk about tears of the kingdom is an event game it's an event game now Zelda is an event game it's a game we're gonna get once every four five years and it's gonna be an event every time that's what a mega IP becomes it becomes an event so I'm really excited about this I know you're really excited about it too hey some of you guys are really excited obviously about spider-man there's a new spider-man game coming this year right that could arguably be considered another event game good on Sony so look guys this is awesome you guys are awesome I'm really glad to have you guys here on this journey and I'll catch you guys in the next video