Since the launch of the Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been one of the system’s biggest sellers. In the UK, the game was the fourth best-selling game on the platform, but it has now been dethroned by a very unlikely game: Minecraft. According to GamesIndustry.biz’s Christopher Dring, boxed sales for Minecraft have now overtaken Breath of the Wild, and are quickly closing in on Super Mario Odyssey. If it does manage to overtake Odyssey, it will become the third best-selling game on the system, behind just Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
The Tweet from Dring can be found embedded below.
Little fun thing, Minecraft on Switch has overtaken Breath of the Wild in the UK (boxed sales), and is closing in on Odyssey. When it beats Mario, it’ll be the No.3 Switch game in the UK overall (behind Mario Kart and Animal Crossing).
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) November 28, 2021
These sales figures only account for physical units, and not digital downloads. Unfortunately, we don’t know how Minecraft and Breath of the…
