Age of Calamity is now the franchise’s best-selling entry
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has become the best-selling entry in the Koei Tecmo Warriors long series.
In its financial results for Q3 2020, the Japanese publisher said that the Breath of the Wild prequel has moved 3.5 million copies since its release in November last year. As noted by analyst Daniel Ahmad on it Twitter, the previous best – selling entry in the 2003 franchise was Dynasty Warriors 4, which sold 2.2 million units.
Hyrule Warriors’ performance left an excellent quarter for Koei Tecmo, with net sales just shy of ¥ 44 billion ($ 423 million) for the three months ended December 31, 2020. That’s a 64.7% year-over-year increase. after a year. Total profit reached ¥ 22.5 billion ($ 217 million), an impressive increase of 132.3% compared to the same quarter a year earlier.
Quarterly operating income reached a high of ¥ 10.9 billion ($ 105 million).
Looking at software, Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy – released in the West but launched in Japan in December – sold 220,000 units during the season, and sold Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV 100,000 copies during Q3.
Back in November, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity sold 3 million units in just a few days.