In addition to hitting the 10 million global sales milestone, The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom has grabbed another achievement in its home country of Japan.

According to Japanese game sales database Game Data Library, The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom achieved the 7th biggest launch for any videogame ever in Japan with a respectable 2.24 million units. This places it at the fourth biggest Switch launch in Japan, after Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Splatoon 3, and Pokemon Scarlet And Violet.

Launch sales The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are among the top 10 in Japan.

Zelda its now at the level of what Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest did at their peak. pic.twitter.com/lg89qILkfj

— Game Data Library (@GameDataLibrary) May 17, 2023

This is still quite an achievement for the series as a whole, as not even series darling Breath Of The Wild managed to break into the Top 20 according to this data. Stay tuned for more updates as they come.

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