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Tears of the Kingdom's latest numbers show it and Breath of the Wild are gaining on the rest of the Zelda series' sales.
No surprise. People always wildly overestimate how well games sold before about 2010. People also have a habit of lumping all Nintendo first party games together and assuming that because 3D Mario, Smash, and Mario Kart games sell like crazy, Metroid and Donkey Kong must also sell like that. It's only really with the last few games that Zelda has jumped up into that higher Nintendo sales echelon.
The well-known magazine EDGE just turned 30 years old, and to celebrate, this month’s issue contains a ranking of the top 100 greatest games released over the past 30 years.
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There are dozens of games on that list which are way better than BotW and sometimes I feel like these “Top X list” makers know that deep down.
It is a solid list, many of them I agree with, but I'd very much replace something like Morrowind with Baldur's Gate 3, and put Divinity Original Sin II up there as well.
This is a personal opinion, but in my mind Grand Theft Auto III and V do not need to be there either, nor Outer Wilds, The Witness, Doom, Fortnite, Tomb Raider, The Sims, Fallout 3, Street Fighter IV or Minecraft.
I'd replace them and select the top games out of the likes of Xcom 2 (new), Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Fallout 2, Grim Fandango, The Secret of Monkey Island II, Myst, Nier Automata, Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Suikoden I-III, Shadow Hearts I-III, Final Fantasy XII, Dragon Quest V, VIII and XI, and Mother 3.