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Former Nintendo of America marketing leads Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang said on a Eurogamer-covered podcast that The Legend of Zelda was in dire straits before Breath of the Wild revived it. Eurogamer reported that Ellis recalled focus groups giving feedback that the fan base was dwindling and not attracting new players, and said the series was shrinking with each entry, so Nintendo had to do something dramatic. Yang said the series was selling almost nothing. Eurogamer noted that Twilight Princess sold roughly 8 million copies, Skyward Sword roughly 3 million, and Breath of the Wild 34 million, a gap it presented as evidence of the turnaround. The former staff spoke amid online debate over whether the series should return to its carefully directed history, as in the recent Ocarina of Time remake, or keep the open sandbox of Breath of the Wild. Eurogamer's writer hoped Nintendo could bring the curated dungeons of the classic games into its next mainline entry. Separately, Nintendo's official Zelda 40th anniversary History page drew confusion by listing the 3DS game A Link Between Worlds as playable on Switch.