Princess Zelda leads the way in Canada

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the name that needs no introduction is an extreme anticipated succeeding add-on to Zelda franchise. The title has pushed behind all the other famous franchised titles like Call of Duty 3, Mario, etc.

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Now the time for Zelda is really high since it has been titled as the best selling title in Canada. As the retailers in Canada said that the almost each gamer who purchased Wii console also took-away a copy of Legend of Zelda game. Ubisoft's Red Steel could procure second place. However other best selling titles standing behind Zelda are Activision's Call of Duty 3, Sega's Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 from Atari.

However Wii launched on 19th of Nov in US and Canada came with great outcome for Nintendo. Both the launches went cool with no disruption as on PS3 launch day in Japan, where community got little fret and fume lastly police had to manage the situation.

Nintendo officials are expecting shortage of Wii consoles looking the boom sale of next-gen consoles all around the region. Feeling the shortage of consoles in Canadian as well as US market, Nintendo has planned to ship few more no. of Wii consoles for fluent purchase. The officials informed that the developer will be assigning approximately half the number of the consoles distributed at the time of launch.

Both Nintendo as well as third-party developers for Wii have been performing well until now and are too optimistic about X-Mass time expecting a good show during fall season too.

Nintendo adopted a good sales strategy not to get Wii console on sale via eBay that has made Wii more feasible to the gamers across the region. However, exact no. of Wii console pulled-away from the store shelve has not been yet traced out, as the hard figures come forward only then we would be able to illustrate the approximate no. of copies of Zelda titles sold.

Via: gamesindustry