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The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword Was Only The Ninth Best Selling Game In November According To NPD

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The NPD group has announced the best-selling software in the United States during November and Modern Warfare 3 tops the list. Sadly The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword only manage to reach the ninth spot on the list but it should be noted that the game was only released on November 20th in North America.

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, WII, PC) Activision Blizzard
2. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC) Bethesda Softworks
3. Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC) Electronic Arts
4. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC) Ubisoft
5. Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360) Ubisoft
6. Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2) Electronic Arts
7. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (PS3) Sony
8. Saints Row: The Third (360, PS3, PC) THQ
9. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (WII) Nintendo
10. Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC) Warner Bros. Interactive

Nintendo Wii: Time Lists The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword As The Third Best Game Of 2011

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Time has listed The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword as the third best video game of 2011. Sadly Skyward Sword is the only Nintendo video game on the list with the fantastic Super Mario 3D Land conspicuously absent. What do you think to their choices?

10. Battlefield 3
9. Sword & Sworcery
8. Dark Souls
7. Skyrim
6. Bastion
5. Batman: Arkham City
4. Uncharted 3
3. Skyward Sword
2. Portal 2
1. Minecraft

Nintendo Wii: The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword Beats Skyrim In G4 Video Game Deathmatch For Best Game Of 2011

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Lots of you voted and it appears as though The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has defeated Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in the latest G4 Video Game Deathmatch for the best game of 2011. The next battle is between The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Assassins Creed: Revelations. Go vote!

Nintendo Wii: The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword Has A Game Breaking Bug, Here’s How To Avoid It

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Nintendo of America spokesperson Sharon Matheny has confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has as game breaking bug which currently has no fix.

“We have been made aware of the issue that results in being unable to progress in the Song of the Hero quest.”

“If the game has been saved after completing the sequence of events, it will no longer be possible to proceed through the game on that save file. The only options at that point are to either start the game over or to use an earlier save file to continue.”

So what you’re wondering now is how to avoid this game breaking bug? Well here’s what Nintendo advises you should do: avoid Golo the Goron after you obtain the Thunder Dragon’s song.

Nintendo: Check Out Fi’s Theme Played By Link In The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

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One ambitious gamer has successfully managed to play Fi’s theme from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword using the Ocarina in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Sadly the individual hasn’t revealed the note’s he used to play the melody but it’s super impressive all the same. Anyone think they can recreate it?

Nintendo: Zelda Skyward Sword Sells Nearly 200,000 In Japan, Nintendo 3DS Outsold All Other Systems Combined

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According to this weeks Media Create sales figures The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword sold nearly 200,000 units in Japan placing it at the top of the software charts. Wii sales nearly doubled, but it still managed just 20,148 units for the week. The Nintendo 3DS continues to dominate the hardware charts as the console managed to outsell all other formats combined.

  • 1. 3DS: 120,920 (96,219)
  • 2. PS3: 34,031 (40,085)
  • 3. PSP: 33,151 (41,069)
  • 4. Wii: 20,148 (13,613)
  • 5. DSi LL: 2,237 (1,813)
  • 6. X360: 1,678 (1,763)
  • 7. PS2: 1,294 (1,291)
  • 8. DSi: 993 (897)
  • 9. DS Lite: 35 (31)

Nintendo Wii: The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Review

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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has received many spectacular review scores from numerous publications. Is this really Link’s greatest adventure yet? Read on to find out.

How did you find the motion controls?

I must admit that initially it came as a bit of a shock to play a game that was pretty much entirely dependant on motion control as I had previously been playing games that relied solely upon a traditional analogue controller. I must confess though that after about an hour I was converted to Nintendo’s vision that motion control is the most enjoyable and entertaining way to play a Zelda title. Yes, it may take a short time to get used to the controls, but I have to say that if you are having trouble managing them then that’s not a problem with the game, but with you.

How impressive are the visuals?

When Skyward Sword was first revealed to the public at E3 I was admittedly slightly disappointed. I was one of those that would have liked to have seen a more gritty and darker side to the Zelda franchise, however, after actually playing the game on Wii I’m confident that Nintendo made the right decision with the art direction in the game. Sure, it’s all rather colourful and cartoony but it really compliments the aging hardware on which it’s been built. This is the best looking game on Wii and I don’t think anyone who has played it could refute that claim.

Is this the best Zelda yet?

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is an ambitious game. It’s the first title to really build upon Wii MotionPlus and deliver exactly what Nintendo promised the Wii was all about. It’s taken a while but the wait was more than worth it as The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is truly a spectacular title full of memorable characters, exciting locations and a unique control scheme that really does put your skills to the test. Could we have asked for a better Zelda game for Wii? I honestly don’t think we could. Is it the best Zelda game ever? Quite possibly.

9.5/10

Nintendo Wii: The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword Could Have Launched Last Christmas If Nintendo Were Concerned About Making Cash

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Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that Nintendo could have released The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword last year, but the company was determined to make it as good as possible so they delayed it until now to add extra polish to an already great game.

“We’d only been thinking about what was most convenient for the company when we made this new game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, we probably would have put a half-finished product on sale last Christmas by saying that we have managed to make it on time just because it was the order from the company.”

“We spent six months making the game, and another six months fine-tuning it. Because the game we were making was so huge, we needed to work that hard on it. Otherwise it would have felt like a waste. We spent so much time making a really good game and it came out so well that it would have been a waste not to make sure that it was really polished.”

“If I had said last Christmas, ‘We need something to be our big end of the year product. Make a new Legend of Zelda game,’ you would have made some sort of game. Because you would have spent as much time as you had and put in as much energy as you could to make it.”

 

Nintendo Wii: The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Metacritic User Score Dips To 8.0

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Gamers have flocked to Metacritic to give their impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the results are mixed. At the time of writing this blog post there have been seventy-seven positive reviews, two mixed reviews and nine negative reviews. Clearly the majority of people who have rated the game haven’t even finished it, but that’s another story.