Game News Zelda: He sets up a crazy plan to get Tears of the Kingdom early, but his mother betrays him!
The release of a new Zelda, especially when it is done on a home console, is always an event. And sometimes some players can’t wait for the official release date. So they decide to take action.
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom : un enthousiasme fou
Available since May 12 exclusively on Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was undoubtedly the most anticipated title of this first half of 2023. During the annual Game Awards ceremony (the equivalent of the Oscars for the video game), he even left with the trophy for most anticipated game of the year. An enthusiasm for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that was observed several times before the day of the release.
Indeed, the more a game is expected, the more its copies will appear on the Internet as being fallen from the truck. But sometimes, they are intentionally stolen by individuals who do not hide their maneuver to play them in advance. The Japanese media Bunshun explains that two young Japanese people (21 and 24 years old) would have been recruited from an Amazon subcontractor in order to steal Tears of the Kingdom. A plan that could have almost gone off without a hitch. But at the time of having to help with the distribution of the long-awaited game, the two young men do not answer the call.
Acheter Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sur Amazon
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: these two Japanese couldn’t wait
The subcontracting company then decides to call the mother of one of the two young men. She responds to him while he is “at home playing a game“…The game in question being obviously Tears of the Kingdom, long before its official release date. He decides to confess that it was a premeditated act. His friend also admits the facts while indicating that he did not only do this for the Zelda game but also for the accessories related to the license. The Nintendo Switch Pro controller for example, to resell them in order to profit from them.
The two men were fired and had to reimburse all of the stolen items. Flights which, according to the company, happen regularly in this kind of case. It is probably difficult to estimate its number, but there is no doubt that it must be proportional to the enthusiasm generated by the game. Concerning Zelda, we cannot say that it was moderate: the 10 million copies sold within three days that followed his release. A measure that illustrates the expectation of players for Tears of the Kingdom.
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