Famitsu sales (5/8/23 – 5/14/23)
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Every Korok Seed on Great Sky Island – Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom guide
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We’ve put together a new video guide that will tell you about all every location for Korok Seeds on Great Sky Island in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Players start the game in a similar area to Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau, and right away, there are things to collect. In our video walkthrough, we take you through all Korok Seed locations on the Great Sky Island in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. There are a surprising amount of secrets tucked away in this short opening area. These seeds will help expand your inventory for shields, weapons, and bows by turning them in to Hestu – similar to the previous title – throughout your journey.
Best-selling games in the U.S. for April 2023
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Circana has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of April 2023.
A few new games make their first appearance, including Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection which cracks the top ten. Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle also made the list, as did Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp – the latter of which doesn’t include digital sales and could have charted higher.
Here’s a look at the complete list of best-selling games in the U.S. for April 2023:
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sells over 10 million copies in first 3 days, more
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold over ten million copies worldwide in its first three days, Nintendo has announced. It’s the fastest-selling game in the history of the Legend of Zelda series.
Also revealed today is that over four million copies were sold alone in the Americas. It’s the fastest-selling Switch game and the fastest-selling Nintendo game for any system in that territory. The same goes for Europe as well.
Pac-Man 99 online service shutting down, being delisted in October
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Bandai Namco has announced that Pac-Man 99 is coming to an end, with the game’s online service planned to shut down later in the year and it’ll be delisted entirely. Your last chance to play the game will be on October 8, 2023.
Pac-Man 99 will still be playable offline and all downloadable content is still being available as planned after the shutdown date if previously purchased. That means players will continue to have access to extras like CPU Battle Mode.
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Tears of the Kingdom is amazing (plus giveaway results, news and more) | Nintendo Everything Refresh Ep. 054
Posted on 1 year ago by Nicholas Serpa in Podcast, Switch | 0 comments
After years of anticipation, The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is finally here, and you can bet your rupees that we’ve been playing it! In this special episode of Nintendo Everything refresh, join your hosts Nicolas, Tom and Sam (joining us from our YouTube channel for the first time) as we dive deep into Link’s new adventure, all the new gameplay systems, the world, the story and more! We’ll also discuss the latest news from Nintendo on the future of the Switch, the delay of Hogwarts Legacy’s Switch version, and much more!
UK: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom biggest boxed release of the year, already eighth biggest Zelda game ever
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Some initial tidbits have surfaced about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s sales performance in the UK, and the game is off to what sounds like a fantastic start.
Tears of the Kingdom is already the eighth biggest Zelda game of all time having already outsold Skyward Sword, The Wind Waker, and A Link Between Worlds. Note that this is based purely on boxed sales – digital data from Nintendo is not reported. Had digital been factored in, the debut for Tears of the Kingdom could be even higher.
Theatrhythm devs on the future of the series
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The developers of Theatrhythm Final Bar Line have weighed in on the series’ future. This could be the end… or perhaps not.
Series director Masanobu Suzui and producer Ichiro Hazama recently spoke with Dengeki Online, and said that Final Bar Line is intended to be the last game in the series. However, Hazama did acknowledge that things may not necessarily end if fans show their interest. It was also shared that Nomura came up with the new for the new title.
Here’s our full translation:
Aonuma on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Majora’s Mask comparisons
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The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has weighed in on comparisons fans have drawn between Tears of the Kingdom and Majora’s Mask. This comes as part of an interview with Polygon.
Both titles are built based on their predecessors, but Aonuma was quick to point out that with Tears of the Kingdom, it was “the opposite sort of challenge”. He brought up how with the new Switch title, Nintendo “took the same world and some of the same materials, or constituent parts, but needed to make it [all] bigger, and needed to create a more expansive world”. That goes for both a horizontal and vertical sense.
Aonuma explained:
[Let’s Talk] Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom impressions
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk, Switch | 0 comments
The moment many Nintendo fans had been waiting for finally happened this week – we’re of course referring to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launching. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: this is a huge release for Switch and one of the most notable titles of 2023 for gaming in general. It’s been six years since Nintendo came out with Breath of the Wild – the series’ most successful entry – so it’s understandable how much anticipation there’s been behind it.
Although it’s not been terribly long since Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom arrived given how it just came out yesterday, many of you likely have been sinking your teeth into it by this point. With that in mind, we’re interested in your early impressions. If you picked up the game, how are you feeling about it so far? How do you think it compares to Breath of the Wild? Let us know in the comments below.
