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That being said look the excitement levels over Tears of the Kingdom are unfathomable right yes the criticism seems pretty loud right now we're hearing the people who dislike the game jabbing their 15 seconds of fame right there they're shouting from the mountaintops anyone that will hear it and negativity tends to stand out more than positivity and thus they are getting their time to shine but you know what the counter to all of it is people actually buying the damn game ever since the Tuesday gameplay reveal oh my gosh has Tears of the Kingdom sales exploded in fact they have exploded so much that the Nintendo Switch sales are already starting to turn around what are we talking about let's get into it you see first we got to talk about the Nintendo Switch sales like let's just talk about that in general right we don't get sales updated numbers you know very often when it comes to specific territories like North America it's once a month you know in out in the UK we do get some weekly reports usually not with exact numbers in Japan however the PlayStation 5 has actually been beating out the switch for like six weeks it's been pretty consistent but see last week that wasn't the case the Nintendo Switch despite only having five of the top ten selling games and they did not have anything in the top three it was two different versions of Resident Evil 4 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 what's interesting is the hardware sales are back in the switches favor the switch all that model was the number one selling model at 36604 units just beating out the base PlayStation 5 but that number three is the switch and at number four is the switch light before we get to number five with the PlayStation 5 digital edition this naturally means the switch actually had a pretty decent margin of victory here hopping over 50,000 units last week now why are the sales of switch increasing when there isn't a whole lot of big name things coming out the biggest was all to your rise at three alchemist of the end of the secret key and yeah that game sold best on switch but I mean the PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 version did pretty good as well in fact the combined sales actually outsold the Nintendo Switch version so why is switch really climbing well we need to explore things deeper when we look at available sales data and I know Amazon isn't the be all and all it just shows some trends it's kind of crazy right now in end Japan the tears of the Kingdom Pro controller the tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED and tears of the Kingdom itself are the three best selling things in all of Japan like for video games okay that's insane but it's even more insane here when you just look at North America and our local Amazon best selling charts well the controller isn't up there the damn Zelda Switch OLED is outpacing you know within the last week the actual tears of the Kingdom but both of them are the top selling video game things that aren't digital e-shop cards this to me is insane watching the fervor for tears of the Kingdom it is setting records at every turn right now now I don't know that it's going to be the fastest selling Nintendo game ever that technically belongs right now to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet which sold 10 million in three days can tears of the kingdom send sell 10 million in three days I don't want to say it's impossible we know within like the first six weeks Pokemon did about 20 million I think we're looking more along 15 to 18 million for tears of the kingdom but is it impossible to think coming off a game that sold 30 million with a bigger install base and the height being driven and the strange marketing that seems to be more based on people like me talking about the game that Nintendo seems to be working yeah tears of the kingdom might indeed blow up and end up becoming a 10 million 11 12 million seller at launch which would set a record and I'm not making that as my official prediction yet I need to see the full marketing cycle heading in the launch before I can be like look I obviously have a bias in an affinity for Zelda I would like to see it outperform scarlet and violet scarlet and violet by the way I actually do enjoy those games but you know the critical reception wasn't great it would be nice at the fastest selling Nintendo game ever was also one of the most highly critically acclaimed games ever and I do think tears of the kingdom has a shot at that I don't I don't know if it could hit that 97 that breath of the wild had I would love to see it happen I mean does it hit the fabled 98 nothing gets that high anymore 97 is really where things seem to top out in modern gaming reviews there's just too many people reviewing too many reviews that count you're always going to have outlets being counted that just don't like Nintendo games but I I'm just blown away by the fervor in this game look what as I see here as a content creator and I cover all of Nintendo where I was trying to find a reason to cover these OLED sales in Japan and I realized that the reason to cover it is zelda but it's it's a weird way like why is zelda the reason to cover it's because zelda is what everyone cares about right now it is the most desired game in famitsu magazine it won the most anticipated game at the game awards last year it won another anticipation award at the game developers conference the years of the kingdom literally is that game everyone just wants to play game developers as we as we did today in my video shout out the player essence one more time for drawing attention to it is literally being praised so hard by fellow AAA game developers that they're sort of embarrassed at their own creations because what Nintendo is doing from a creativity standpoint from a programming standpoint from an execution of that creativity standpoint is just like leagues beyond so many others and while we don't have the game in our hands we're obviously a belief that they're doing this with a relatively bug-free game now we're basing this on what happened with Breath of the Wild clearly tears of the kingdom is in our hands and we can't say that it's a relatively bug-free game at this time that's more reliant on Nintendo's track record than actual facts we can know but man it's hard not to have that sort of faith in the zelda team with six years of development looks like it was supposed to come out last year got delayed so it seems anyways based on the june firmware on the zelda OLED edition said okay it feels like it probably was supposed to be last year look guys i am just stupidly excited and i'm even more excited that because of the delay there are so many zelda OLEDs in existence that scalpers continue to just be wrecked okay i think we all can take a little bit of pleasure out of the fact that you know thousands of scalpers attempted to buy up a bunch of zelda tears of the kingdom OLEDs to scalp them on ebay um how's that working out when we can still pre-order the damn thing and every retail outlet in the united states like i don't know what it's like in other territories but around here yeah it ain't that hard to get it i can still walk into walmart at best by locally and online and get pre-orders and it's pretty it's pretty hilarious uh watching that happen but anyways a lot of that happened because it was clearly meant to be last year nintendo had more time to make more systems and yeah obviously the demand for the systems isn't meeting the supply because nintendo thinks they'll be able to sell these systems all year long eventually they're going to stop manufacturing them in fact they might have already stopped manufacturing them seeing them not sell out but yeah i mean all the zelda editions are going to be sold by the end of the year that's that's pretty obvious uh we've seen this animal crossing in other editions as well right like they've done reruns and reprints and they seem really really stocked for a while now hey you can't really find them much anymore because they do eventually sell out so i'm not worried about them making so many zelda collectors editions or i guess not collectors editions but so many i wish they made that many so many zelda olad editions that you know they're not going to sell them i don't think that's a worry there's going to be a lot of trickle down sales of this game for the rest of the year that will lead to people probably wanting to go and pick up that olad but man i'm just i'm blown away guys like the gameplay the fervor the interest and now i'm ready for what's next like drop some screenshots man drop some at this point brand new screenshots dropped by nintendo would be breaking news because we just we just want the game to be here but until then i just want to see little snippets i just want to see more i know i personally don't need to see more to sell me on the game but i didn't even need to see the gameplay to sell me on the game just my faith in nintendo was enough and call that crazy call me a shill for it i'm a nintendo content creator i have an admitted bias for nintendo i mean i just do i do play playstation and xbox and pc heck i'm in game and i'm mac lately but uh the just yet nintendo is still still near and dear to my heart and the zelda games in particular uh mario as well like those those are my jams metroid i mean just i don't know i'm even excited for pick one for guys i but let's go catch you guys in the next video