Koei Tecmo released its year-end report for the fiscal year 2020, and it’s a lot of good news, thanks in no small part to the release of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
For those who do not deal with business nonsense, the fiscal year typically ends in March, which gave Age of Calamity three more months to help push sales. The game has added another 200,000 units in the last three months to put it at 3.7 million total. While it’s still a small chunk compared to Breath of the Wild‘s overall sales, Age of Calamity is slamming a number of smaller records across the board.
For reference, the original Hyrule Warriors has only sold under half of that between every version released since the original Wii U one in 2014. That includes the Switch “Deluxe” release a couple of years ago that brought in another small boost. For a more modern comparison, the insanely popular Persona franchise recently had its own Musou/Warriors crossover with Persona 5 Strikers. Atlus recently reported that the game had sold 1.3 million units globally, putting it at just over a third of Calamity‘s sales. The recent Hyrule Warriors sequel continues to hold its title of best-selling Musou/Warriors game ever, including other crossovers with popular series such as Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest. In short, the Switch release has been a huge success for Nintendo and Koei Tecmo.
Part of this bump can probably be attributed to the announcement of DLC coming later this year for the game. It will be curious to see if a proper announcement for the Breath of the Wild sequel causes some people to go and buy this when they realize just how hungry they are for more Legend of Zelda goodness.
