{"id":28708,"date":"2023-05-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/how-breath-of-the-wilds-sales-changed-everything-for-zelda\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:00:00","slug":"how-breath-of-the-wilds-sales-changed-everything-for-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/how-breath-of-the-wilds-sales-changed-everything-for-zelda\/","title":{"rendered":"How Breath of the Wild&#8217;s sales changed everything for Zelda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nJust before the doors opened on E3 2016, years before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/exploring-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdoms-ocean-of-airborne-islands\">Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> was ever dreamt up, I was sitting in a room with a few media types. They were debating at length Nintendo&#8217;s decision to show up in LA with nothing but The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s supreme arrogance, bordering on stupidity,&#8221; I vividly recall one prominent writer saying. Few disagreed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was a different time. Nintendo&#8217;s Wii U console had been a catastrophic failure and the 3DS was showing its age. The company had announced it was working on a new machine, codenamed NX, but it was nowhere to be seen (it would be revealed four months later).\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/how-breath-of-the-wilds-sales-changed-everything-for-zelda\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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