Breath of the Wild outsold Tears of the Kingdom over the holidays.

If you look at Nintendo's Q1 report (thread) Tears had already sold 18.51 million units and moved 15.7m units in the first 8 weeks (pg12) and ~10m in the first three days. Breath of the Wild at this juncture was sitting at 29.81m.

Also according to that report:

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which was released on May 12, has made a major contribution to Q1 sales in the current environment, in which we see widespread adoption of Nintendo Switch hardware and continued play engagement by many consumers. Sell-through of this one title constitutes approximately half of the first-party software sold this fiscal year. Consumers who played the previous entry, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, have been the primary driver, but as the weeks have passed, we have seen that a growing percentage of purchases are being made by consumers who have not yet played that title.

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In their latest report:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 31.61 million
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 20.28 million

From this we can see that over the holidays:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 1.8 million
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 1.77 million

While a good chunk of this I think can be attributed to the Switch hardware being down 34% this year and 22% the year before, I think the Zelda numbers are interesting as typically Nintendo do ~2/3s of their business over the holidays so to see TotK, their biggest title for 2023 have such a muted holiday season and be marginally outsold by it's 7-year old predecessor is interesting, I wonder how much of that comes down to the $10 price hike.

Overall seems like TotK is a game that people wanted to ASAP or not at all, and wasn't on many Christmas lists. Part of me wonders if this is indicative of the demographic buying TotK skewing towards having more autonomy to buy the game in the launch window (ie. older).

What does everyone else make of this?