Before we get into this video, I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and we're getting really close guys I would appreciate you would subscribe to the channel like this video leave a comment down below letting me know what you're most Excited about with tears of the kingdom. Hey if we happen to get there before tears of the kingdom comes out We'll just go ahead and give away a collector's edition of the game and you know, let's throw in a Zelda switch ol' Ed for fun. Shall we? That being said look the excitement levels over tears of the kingdom are un Bath and noble right? Yes, the criticism seems pretty loud right now. We're hearing the people who dislike the game Having their 15 seconds of fame right there. They're shouting from the mountain tops Anyone that will hear it and negativity tends to stand out more than positivity and thus they are getting their time to shine But you know what the counter to all of it is people actually buying the damn game ever since the Tuesday gameplay reveal Oh my gosh has tears of the kingdom sales exploded and in fact they have exploded so much that the Nintendo switch sales Are already starting to turn around What are we talking about? Let's get into it. You see First we got to talk about the Nintendo switch sales like let's just talk about that in general right We don't get sales updated numbers, you know very often when it comes to specific territories like North America It's once it's once a month Well, you know in out in the UK we do get some weekly reports usually not with exact numbers in Japan However, the PlayStation 5 is actually been beating out the switch for like six weeks. It's been pretty consistent But see last week that wasn't the case the Nintendo switch despite only having five of the top 10 Selling games and they did not have anything in the top three It was two different versions of Resident Evil 4 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 What's interesting is the hardware sales are back in the switches favor the switch Ola model was the number one selling model at 36,604 units just beating out the base PlayStation 5 But that number three is the switch and that number four is the switch light before we get to number five with the PlayStation 5 digital edition This naturally means these switch actually had a pretty decent margin of victory here hopping over 50,000 Units last week now. Why are the sales a switch increasing when there isn't a whole lot of big name things coming out The biggest was all to your rise a three Alchemist of the end of the secret key and yeah that game sold best on switch But I mean the PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 version did pretty good as well In fact the combined sales actually outsold the Nintendo switch version so Why is switch really climbing when we need to explore things deeper when we look at available sales data And I know Amazon isn't the be all and all it just shows some trends It's kind of crazy right now in end Japan the Choose the kingdom pro controller the tears of the kingdom switch OLED and tears of the kingdom itself are the three best Selling things in all of Japan like for video games, okay? That's insane, but it's even more insane here when you just look at North America and our local Amazon best selling charts Well the controller isn't up there the damn Zelda switch OLED is outpacing you know within the last week The actual tears of the kingdom but both of them are the top selling video game things that aren't digital e-shop cards This to me is insane Watching the fervor for tears of the kingdom. It is setting records at every turn right now Now I don't know that it's going to be the fastest selling Nintendo game ever that technically belongs right out of Pokemon Scrawling violet which sold 10 million in three days Ken tears of the king the sun sell 10 million in three days. I don't want to say it's impossible We know within like the first six weeks Pokemon did about 20 million I think we're looking more long 15 to 18 million for tears of the kingdom But is it impossible to think you know coming off a game this old 30 million with a bigger install base and the hype being driven and The strange marketing that seems to be more based on people like me talking about the game than Nintendo Seems to be working. Yeah tears of the kingdom might indeed blow up and end up becoming a 10 million 11 12 million seller at launch Which would set a record and I'm not making that as my official prediction yet I need to see the full marketing cycle heading to launch before I can be like look I obviously have a bias in an affinity for Zelda I would like to see it out performance carl and violet. It's got to be violent by the way I actually do enjoy those games, but you know The critical reception wasn't great It would be nice at the fastest selling Nintendo game ever was also one of the most highly critically acclaimed games ever And I do think tears of the kingdom as a shot at that. I don't I don't know if it can hit that 97 that breath of the wild head I would love to see it happen. I mean does it hit the fabled 98 nothing gets that high anymore 97 is really worth things Seen the top out in modern gaming reviews. There's just too many people reviewing too many reviews that count You're always gonna have outlets being counted that just don't like Nintendo games, but I I'm just blown away by the fervor in this game Look what as I see her as a content creator and I cover all of Nintendo where I was trying to find a reason to cover these OLED sales In Japan and I realized that the reason to cover it is Zelda But it's it's it's a weird way like why is Zelda the reason to cover it's because Zelda is what everyone cares about right now It is the most desired game in Fimitsu magazine. It won the most anticipated game at the game awards last year It won another anticipation award at the game developers conference the years of the kingdom Literally is that game everyone just wants to play game developers as we as we did today in my video Shout out the player essence one more time for drawing attention to it is Literally being prey so hard by fellow triple a game developers that they're sort of embarrassed at their own Creations because what Nintendo is doing from a creativity standpoint from programming standpoint from an execution of that creativity standpoint is just Like leagues beyond so many others and while we don't have the game in our hands We're obviously upbelief that they're doing this with a relatively bug free game now We're basing this on what happened with breath of a wild clearly tears of the kingdom is in our hands And we can't say that it's a relatively bug free game at this time That's more reliant on Nintendo's track record than actual facts. We can know But man, it's hard not to have that sort of faith in the Zelda team with six years of development Looks like it was supposed to come out last year got delayed so it seems anyways based on the June firmware On the Zelda OLED additions and okay yet feels like it probably was supposed to be last year Look guys. I am just stupidly excited and well, I'm even more excited that because of the delay There are so many Zelda OLEDs in existence of scalpers continued to just be wrecked because I think we all can take a little bit of pleasure out of the fact that You know thousands of scalpers attempted to buy up a bunch of Zelda tears of the kingdom OLEDs to scalp them on eBay How's that working out when we can still pre-order the damn thing and every retail outlet in the United States like I don't know what it's like in other territories but around here Yeah, it ain't that hard to get it I can still walk into Walmart and best fight locally and online and get pre-orders in it. It's pretty It's pretty hilarious Watching that happen, but anyways a lot of that happy because it was clearly meant to be last year Nintendo had more time to make more systems And yeah, obviously the demand for the systems isn't meeting the supply Because Nintendo thinks they'll be able to sell these systems all year long eventually They're gonna stop manufacturing them that they might have already stopped manufacturing them seeing them not sell out But yeah, I mean all the Zelda editions are gonna be sold by the end of the year. That's that's pretty obvious We've seen this animal crossing in other editions as well right like they've done reruns and reprints And they seem really really stock for a while. No, hey, you can't really find them much anymore because they do eventually sell out So not worried about them making so many Zelda collectors editions or I guess that collectors editions but so many I wish they made that many so many Zelda OLED editions that you know, they're not gonna sell them I don't think that's a worry. There's gonna be a lot of trickle-down sales of this game for the rest of the year They'll lead to people probably wanting to go and pick up that OLED but man I'm just I'm blown away guys like the gameplay the fervor the interest and I'm ready for what's next like drop some screenshots man Tross some screen at this point brand new screenshots drop by Nintendo would be breaking news because we just We just want the game to be here, but until then I just want to see little snippets. I just want to see more I know I personally don't need to see more to sell me on the game I didn't even need to see the gameplay to sell me on the game Just my faith in Nintendo was enough and call that crazy call me a shale for it I'm an Nintendo content creator. I have it admitted bias for Nintendo. I mean, I just do I do play PlayStation and Xbox and PC Heck, I'm a game and I'm Mac lately, but uh The just yet Nintendo is still still needed into my heart and the Zelda games in particular Mario as well like those those are my jams Metroid. I mean just I don't know. I'm even excited for pick one for guys. I Let's go catch you guys in the next video You