Tears of the Kingdom
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Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51M copies in a couple of months

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (released in May) got off to a good start with sales of 18.51 million copies in its first couple of months.

That’s a pretty spectacular result for the launch of any game, and Nintendo saw huge gains in the quarter as a result, the company reported today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.