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Best-Selling Game for February: Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

The Nintendo 3DS remake beat out the Xbox One and PS4 game offerings according to the February NPD.

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The long-awaited remake of The Legend of Zelda classic, Majora's Mask, was the best-selling game in the US for February.

While February is typically a slow month for game releases, it's still a surprise win for what is generally considered an obscure (but beloved) entry in the Zelda franchise. Nintendo's only other showing on the NPD Group's top 10 list was for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

NPD rankings do not include digital sales, only new, physical sales, but it does include collector's editions, game of the year editions, and bundles. It's worth noting that, while Nintendo did release a special edition Majora's Mask New 3DS XL in the US, the game was not bundled with that system.

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS) -- Nintendo
  2. Evolve (XBO, PS4, PC) -- Take 2 Interactive
  3. Dying Light (PS4, XBO, PC) -- Warner Bros. Interactive
  4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XBO, PS4, 360, PS3, PC) -- Activision Blizzard
  5. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, XBO, 360, PS3) -- Take 2 Interactive
  6. NBA 2K15 (PS4, XBO, 360, PS3, PC) -- Take 2 Interactive
  7. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360) -- Bandai Namco Games
  8. Minecraft (360, PS3, XBO, PS4) -- Microsoft/Sony
  9. The Order: 1886 (PS4) -- Sony
  10. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (3DS) -- Capcom

While most companies don't reveal exact sales numbers, Nintendo wrote in a press release that Majora's Mask sold "515,000 combined physical and digital units." Nintendo also wrote that it is "the fastest-selling Legend of Zelda hand-held title in US history." Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold "290,000 combined physical and digital units and is now the fastest-selling Monster Hunter title -- across all platforms -- in US history."

For console titles, the NPD Group's Liam Callahan offered the following guidance: "This is the first time since the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One that the top 10 console software SKUs were all from eighth generation consoles, a sign of consumer’s further transition away from seventh generation consoles towards the new console generation."

On the strength of those titles, the 3DS family also came out on top in terms of hardware sales for February.

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Dat Majora's Mask was dope

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A new generation will learn about this self flagellation.

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Nice to see Monster Hunter just made it on the list, been playing that more than Majora's Mask

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This restores some of my faith in humanity. Thank you, gamers.

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I contributed to that figure.

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Modern devs don't have a clue as to what gamers want.


On Steam - Divinity, a turn based RPG sold HUGE


Consoles - Zelda sold HUGE.


What do devs do ?? . . keep cranking out generic shooters.


No clue
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<< LINK REMOVED >> I think it's more about "return on investment". A generic shooter is easier and cheaper to make than most other genres, and expected to sell reasonably well. So it's easier to make a profit.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Divinity is a budget, digital-only title. Comparing it to a retail/digital AAA title is ignorant and absurd.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> The only absurd thing is it's a far better game than those AAA titles.

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Port of the second worst Zelda game outsells the AAA titles.


lol Evolve

lol Order 1886

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Majora's mask actually sold incredibly well, and received ridiculously good reviews from both critics and gamers. Some critics even rate it higher than Ocarina of Time. If you were to poll Zelda fans on their favorite games, a good percentage would select Majora's Mask. Mind, a lot of people agree with you, too. But you can't factually say that it is the second worst game. If you didn't like the three-day mechanic, or felt that the game didn't fit the Zelda formula, or were weirded-out by the story, that's just fine, and you're not alone. But can you really say that it's a poor quality game?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Zelda games are AAA titles.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Second worst Zelda? Can you count? Skyward Sword + Twilight Princess makes 2.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It may have been the second-worst Zelda, but it was still MUCH MUCH MUCH better than Evolve or Order 1886.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Majora's Mask is 1886 orders of magnitude better than The Order 1886 :P.

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Majora's Mask is an excellent remaster. It deserves those numbers.

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Well at least in NA they know how to keep a crap game down on the list unlike Europe.It sat at Number 1 for far to long.

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Was there any other significant releases in February?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Most significant releases, like Evolve or The Order, launched very late in February and thus the numbers are not very indicative. Of course the author fails to mention this in the article. :/

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Depends on what you mean by "significant." But not really, no.

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Am I weird for not knowing what the heck Evolve or Dying Light are?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You're blessed, actually. You weren't tempted to buy either one.

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Not surprised. Majora's Mask is an amazing game that stands the test of time.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Pun intended? lol

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So much for The Order's sells being just fine and not reflecting on the piece of crap that it is...

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It launched on the 20th of feb and these figures take into account the sales for the whole month so this isn't really a good way to tell how the game has sold

Not that I'm expecting it to do well

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lol

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I haven't played a Zelda Game since The Legend of Zelda on NES. I admit, I like what I saw on the new one they showed at E3 (or Gamecon) but..not enough to say I wanna get the system....too bad Nintendo is stuck on Mario...they need to go back to the old days...the SNES\NES where they had awesome game library a vast amount of games of all kinds of crap...now its nothing but Mario this Mario that...and...Zelda and the occassional "something else".

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Have you looked at any of the games in the e-shop?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You need to at least play Link to the Past. It is my second favorite behind NES Zelda.

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You need to play ocarina of time

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<< LINK REMOVED >> No he doesn't. I keep trying to finish ocarina and it's annoying and dated. It's a guessing game as to what you have to do next and I got tired of playing that game within the game. Hands down the most overrated game ever made.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Would it kill you to consult a walkthrough every now and then if figuring it out on your own is so frustrating?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> lol....I hope youre not older than 12. I beat both MM and OOT I was between 10 and 12 years old and barely spoke a word in english. Get good dude,the problem is not the game,its your gaming skills.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Right. Because I only beat over a hundred games in my life time in my imagination. I'll go back and undo my demons souls playthrough. I must suck at games. Or perhaps zelda games have always inherently had this problem.


For example how to get into the big fish dungeon. Took me hours to figure out that the fish I had to catch was in that stupid pond. Fish I could barely see. Fish I didn't know I could put in a bottle because the game never made this clear beforehand. I actually went FISHING to see if that would work but that bit of actual logic didn't fit in with the games' design. Just one of many times where an answer made no logical sense in ocarina of time.


Without a guide you're totally lost. Sorry to me that's bad game design.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Wow. You're defensive. And, I'm sorry, but most people were able to figure out the game and beat it, and these were the days before you could just look up what to do on the internet. Does that make you unintelligent? Not necessarily, no. But I'd have to say that you're mostly alone in your view.


P.S. None of us care much about how well you did in other games. It just seems like empty boasting.

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