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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the Super Mario Bros. Movie drove Nintendo to a record-breaking quarter | Geek Centrals (geekcentrals.com)
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[–] avatar@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But which did better, and by how much over the other?

[–] TheYang@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As of August 6, 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed $574.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $779.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.355 billion.

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[Tears of the Kingdom] sold more than 10 million copies in its first three days of release, and had sold over 18.5 million copies by June 2023.

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at 69.99 a game, would mean the total volume sold is roughly $1.295 billion, 60 million less than the Super Mario Movie.

~~I'm not certain if the movie gross is the same calculation though.~~ It seems that the calculation is fair But data for Tears of the Kingdom is about a month older so that it seems possible it passed The Super Mario Movie by now.

[–] makeshiftreaper@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With those numbers I'd guess TotK was more profitable. Movies have a huge amount of production costs and some of those groups take percentages of total revenue and/or profit. Especially considering TotK was a first party game, so it had even fewer parties invested, it was probably higher margins.

[–] TheYang@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

there is an estimation i saw about the development cost of Breath of the Wild, at somewhere between 80 and 120 million USD. Breath of the Wild was 4 years in Development, Tears of the Kingdom spent 6 years in Development.
above 120 million for Tears of the Kingdom doesn't seem unreasonable.

Mario Movie was 100 Million.

Anyway, both are stupidly profitable for Nintendo