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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a sold an eye-watering 10 million copies in its first three days on the market, making it the fastest selling title in franchise history.

The early sales milestone also makes it the fastest selling Switch game ever in the Americas and the fastest selling Nintendo title on any system released in the region.

Nintendo also revealed that the Zelda series overall has sold 130 million units as of March this year, before Tears of the Kingdom’s ten million sales have been added at all.

With the vast majority of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom beholden to the players’ imagination and drive to discover, no two journeys through Hyrule will ever be completely alike. The only true power Nintendo has over your adventure is the start and end point of its main story, with the former needing to be expertly curated in its direction to give you everything you’ll need to flourish from that point onwards. It’s a level of bold authorship that trusts the player to write the rest of their story.

Crafting an opening as strong as Tears of the Kingdom’s is no mean feat, and while many games of the past have wowed with their introductions, I’m not sure any have quite nailed it like Nintendo has here.

Online services for Pac-Man 99 will be discontinued later this year, though some game modes will continue to be available for some past the October 8 deadline.

Pac-Man 99 is currently available for free for those with a Nintendo Switch Online membership, with multiple paid themes and other DLC available to download from the digital console marketplace.

However, online services for Pac-Man 99, including its public and private battle royale modes are set to be delisted permanently in October, at which point Nintendo will also halt the distribution of free custom themes for the game, according to a new post on the Nintendo website.