Zelda Finishes No. 2 After Only 11 Days on the Market

Paul Sinclair • Jul 15, 2011 • Comments ()

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After less than two weeks on store shelves, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for the Nintendo 3DS portable entertainment system finished the month as the No. 2 best-selling video game on an individual platform, with more than 283,000 units sold, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States.

Other highlights from the month include:

* Nintendo sold more than 800,000 combined hardware units in June. This includes 386,000 units of the Nintendo DS family of systems, 273,000 Wii systems and 143,000 Nintendo 3DS systems. Each product line saw double-digit growth over the previous month, and the lifetime U.S. installed base for the Wii system crossed 36 million units.

* Five of the top 10 and 13 of the top 25 best-selling individual software titles play on Nintendo platforms.

This holiday season, Nintendo will offer something for everyone with fan-favorite titles including Super Mario, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Star Fox 64 3D and The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword.