Legend of Zelda - Comes With a Price
Random: How Much Would It Cost To Buy A House In Breath Of The Wild In Real Life?
Buying your own humble abode inside a video game can be a very satisfying part of the experience, and in some cases, can actually be at the centre of the game's entire makeup. Adding customisation options to your new build only adds to the excitement, and we can only begin to imagine the vast amount of virtual homes that are currently being bought, sold, and renovated as we speak.
As it happens, London & Country Mortgages - a real, UK-based mortgage broker - discovered that every month, more people use Google to search for advice on buying a house in
than they do in real-life locations like London, the UK, France, Spain, and America. To explore this idea further, the company has been hard at work on a project that works out the actual real-estate value for some of our favourite gaming worlds.
One such world is Hyrule, specifically the one found in
. Of course, in this iteration of Hyrule, only one house is actually up for sale at the time of Link's quest - the one in Hateno Village. You may remember having to hand over some Rupees and 30 bundles of wood to have your very own house be built. The base cost of this house turns out to be 3,000 Rupees (after receiving a nice discount from Bolson), with a total of 4,400 being needed for it to be fully furnished.
It turns out that the Hyrule to real world conversion rate would be rather highly in our favour, with house prices in that region being just a tiny fraction of the terrifyingly large rates we're faced with in real life. It's a decently sized home, far away from any neighbours and noise, but it would only set you back £51,637 / $69,710.
So how was this worked out? Well, London & Country compared a whole range of items that are both purchasable in Hyrule and the UK, finding an average conversion rate that took all of this into account. For example, the Raw Prime Meat that's purchasable in Breath of the Wild for 15 Rupees was compared to an organic fillet steak from a UK market which was on sale for £12.75. With lots of other items also compared, the average conversion rate showed that one Rupee equals roughly £1.03.
The study goes into more detail on various other games, too, such as Skyrim and
- which is much more realistic by today's standards. If you want to check it out in full, you can find it
The lesson to be learned here? When you're ready to buy your first house, move to Hyrule!
Ryan’s that annoying kind of guy in multiplayer games - you know the one, the kind of person that throws a temper tantrum if he can’t be Yoshi in Mario Kart or gets stuck with the controller with the dodgy button. Yeah, that kind.
And cheap because it’s being destroyed and Ganon is about to be unleased again
Well, it is a small country cottage with only one room and no bathroom or kitchen IIRC. The only cooking pot is outside. I've yet to find an outhouse in Hyrule.
Tbh the constant outbreaks of Ganon and other monsters might have something to do with it
I do believe Gabon has got ebola under control. Now what you should worry about is Ganon.
same price as all video games take. your time & your soul
You can tell the housing market is slow when they have to do this.
Although it's situated in a nice street the local neighbourhood has a problem with gangs of mosnters. That must have an impact on the resale value.
Not really sure that I want a mostly empty house with no kitchen or bathroom in the middle of a ruined kingdom.
...not really a fan of having my builders sit outside my house all day either
true, but i'd love to hang my ancient spear on the wall
Rupee Prices Zelda
I’m confused. In this analogy is the “calamity” Brexit or Trump?
When are they going to do an expose on Tom Nook? That guy is definitely bending a few lending laws.
Hmm, one must consider the spectacular view of the castle Rupee Prices Zelda , absolutely no demons floating around. Also how much is Council Tax and are the nearby schools any good?
I’m amazed Nook hasn’t created a housing crisis with all his subprime lending. Animal Crossing: Foreclosure Friends
The market is much more competitive down in the Faron region and coastal Lurelin Village.
Ask Lyle (ACNL) from Happy Home Academy before purchasing a house.
He knew 10,001 things about Feng Shui, so maybe some houses on BOTW have a Bad Luck / Good Luck by default.
Seems about right since from what I can tell there’s no plumbing, electric, or any other modern comforts that raise the price of a home.Great location though
I'm confused. If the conversion rate is 1 to 1.03. Shouldn't the price of the house in real life be 3090? Not 51637?
I'm going to build my own house and I'm doing it like the lil cube houses
This doesn't make any sense. Steaks are magically created in Hyrule, and their prices are set by a developer. Stores are hard coded to only accept a certain amount of rupees if they have steaks, they do not fluctuate according to availability. What makes you think a house price would in any way follow the same ratio to steaks in a magical, static, by developer rules world, as it does in the real world?
Of course there can’t be exact equivalence when one world has quasi magic rules arbitrarily set by a team of invisible directors behind the scenes.
I think I'll stick with my actual ranch style house, thanks.
It has more rooms, utilities, an attached garage, and the only monsters are neighborhood dogs, the rabbit who hangs out on my lawn, and the people that cruise through WAY over the speed limit (I'm by a highway).
Considering that my mortgage is in the ballpark of that amount, I'll stick with what I've got. Sorry, Link.
Sounds nice, maybe I should move to Hyrule or Animal Crossing, as the UK is run by a witch and landlords.
Breath of the Wild is all about nature. They probably just do their business in the woods. It would explain all the Korok poop!
Breath of the Wild, that game I have on both Wii U and Switch and haven't got around to playing yet.What on earth is wrong with me?
According to the chart, without Bolson's discount the cost is 50,000 rupees instead of 3,000, which translates to 51,637 pounds. It's funny that the article failed to mention that instead it gave us the chart that may be hard to read on mobile devices.
Thank you. You're right, I totally missed that chart.
the house in Breath of the Wild was pretty useless...
With the Skyrim reference, Brexit is obviously like joining the Stormcloaks.
You couldn't buy a one-car garage in Central London for £50k. Never mind this Hyrule house.
So the exchange rate is about the same as GBP - EUR
Guys, it's not a real house. It is computer animated.
No bathroom and no kitchen makes it worth $11.95 IRL. Rupee Prices Zelda
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