Update: Bumped to the top. You can reserve the limited edition on Play-Asia here (with $5 off) and the standard edition here (thanks Jake and axel). We also have a few more photos below.

Original: Following Xenoblade Chronicles 2 earlier this week, Nintendo announced today that they will also release the official soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Japan. Releasing on April 25, it will come in two version: a first print limited edition and a standard edition.

The limited edition, which will cost 7,000 yen, pictured above, comes with the following:

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild has sold over one million copies in Japan

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has reached a new milestone in Japan. Between both Switch and Wii U, sales have surpassed one million units.

Breath of the Wild has sold 871,528 copies on Switch. Wii U accounts for another 133,024 units. Of course, the game has been sold digitally as well, though we don’t have a specific number in that area.

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild devs considered giving players control of the weather

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In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the weather and environment around you are more important than ever before. Link goes up against some tough conditions, ranging from the blazing heat to frigid temperatures depending on your location. The weather is also a key element when scaling mountains. When it starts raining, you can bet that climbing will become much more difficult.

Giving players control of the weather was actually something the Zelda: Breath of the Wild team considered, according to Hidemaro Fujibayashi. The game’s director explained to Game Informer this month why it ultimately didn’t make sense in the end: it wouldn’t have been as fun and “would have increased the number of variables in the world.”

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild update out now (version 1.5.0)

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A new update has gone live for Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It primarily acts as a way of adding in support for more languages, though Nintendo says fixes have also been implemented.

The full patch notes are as follows:

You can now select Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), or Korean in the language settings menu on the Switch console to display text in the selected language.
Voice Language selection is not supported for the above languages. If you choose “Match System Settings” in Options, voice data will be set to Japanese.
Various fixes to improve gameplay.

Thanks to Cameron and Reddit for the tip.

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild devs on The Champions’ Ballad DLC, what’s next for the series, more

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Nintendo has published a new video interview with Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi, the series producer for Zelda and Breath of the Wild’s director respectively. The two talked about a few different topics, including The Champions’ Ballad DLC, what’s next for the series, and more. Watch the full interview below.

Watch Mr. Aonuma and Mr. Fujibayashi talk about The Legend of #Zelda: Breath of the Wild and share some behind-the-scenes insight into The Champions’ Ballad DLC. pic.twitter.com/v8v5Rbsbpr
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 31, 2018

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Breath of the Wild now the second highest-selling Zelda game

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Nintendo confirmed earlier today that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has shipped 6.7 million copies on Switch worldwide. Adding in sales of the Wii U version of about 1.08 million, the overall total should be roughly 7.78 million units worldwide.

The big takeaway from that number is Breath of the Wild is now the second highest-selling Zelda game. Only Twilight Princess has it beat globally with 8.85 million copies sold. Breath of the Wild could very well overtake it in time.

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New photos of the Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link figure from Medicom

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Nintendo has provided a new wave of photos showing the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link figure from Medicom. We’ve attached the images below.

This figure is fully posable and stands roughly 30 cm/12″ tall. It comes with Link’s sword, shield, bow, arrows, quiver, and other accessories.

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Eiji Aonuma says Breath of the Wild may have been the most enjoyable Zelda game to work on

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Eiji Aonuma has been involved with the Zelda series for many, many years. Yet out of all of the games he’s contributed to, Breath of the Wild may have been the most enjoyable one to work on.

Aonuma spoke extensively about the process of making Breath of the Wild in the latest issue of Game Informer. The reason why development was so enjoyable was due to the staff working on the game. Aonuma said that the team “took so much initiative, and were always looking at everything in the game with this eye to improve.” Even though Aonuma was worried about how Breath of the Wild would turn out, that feeling started to fade as he saw the staff put Breath of the Wild together.

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