The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge launched final week, and unsurprisingly, the action-adventure title has been met with widespread reward from critics and audiences alike, even when it doesn’t fairly match as much as the extent of reward that the top-down title’s totally 3D open world Zelda counterparts obtain regularly. Now, early gross sales information for the title can also be starting to emerhe.
Shared by GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring on Twitter, as per weekly information for bodily software program gross sales within the UK shared by the GSD, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of the Knowledge was the second-highest promoting recreation within the UK final week, with EA Sports activities FC 25 unsurprisingly taking the highest spot. These figures solely account for bodily gross sales, nonetheless.
As per Dring, the brand new Zelda title’s bodily launch gross sales within the UK are 14 % decrease than 2019’s The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening remake – which was the final top-down Zelda title to be launched by Nintendo – however as per Dring, as soon as digital gross sales are additionally accounted for, it’s possible that the 2 video games’ gross sales performances are going to be loads nearer than it might appear proper now.
In our evaluation of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, we awarded it a rating of 9/10, saying, “Echoes of Knowledge is a good maiden journey for the franchise’s eponymous princess, marrying previous and new convincingly, and establishing a basis for 2D Zelda video games to thrive alongside their larger 3D cousins.” Learn the total evaluation by way of right here.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge is offered on Nintendo Swap.