Nintendo Q1FY2024 Results: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51 million units

Nintendo has released its quarterly financials [PDF] through Q1 of the 2024 fiscal year (April 2023 through June 2023), which reveals that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold 18.51 million units as of June 30. 15.70 million of that total is the sell-through to consumers.

We previously learned that the game had sold 10 million units in its first three days of sales.

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Relative to previous Nintendo financial releases, we don't have too many other updates regarding RPGs, but we do have Switch best-seller sales updates as follows:

  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has sold 30.65 million units since launch [up from 29.81 last quarter]
  • Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield have sold 25.92 million units since launch [up from 25.82 last quarter]
  • Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet have sold 22.66 million units since launch [up from 22.10 last quarter]

Nintendo doesn't have any major RPG releases in the 2nd quarter of the current fiscal year, but we can look forward to the Super Mario RPG remake in November.