Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake sells 5.2 million in four days, Switch 2’s fastest Nintendo game
The rebuilt 1998 classic, out Nov. 5, is Nintendo’s fastest-selling Switch 2 game worldwide and in the U.S., the company says. It costs $59.99 to download.
SAN JOSE — Nintendo’s remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sold more than 5.2 million copies worldwide in its first four days, the fastest start for any Switch 2 game Nintendo has published, the company said Wednesday.
Nintendo said the game is also its fastest-selling Switch 2 title in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Its count, from internal sales data, includes downloads and boxed copies. About 810,000 of the 5.2 million were sold in Japan, Nintendo’s Japanese release says. The company did not give a U.S. number.
The game came out Nov. 5 and runs only on the Switch 2. It costs $59.99 as a download or $69.99 boxed on Nintendo’s U.S. store.
It is a full rebuild of the 1998 Nintendo 64 game, in which Link travels between two eras of the kingdom of Hyrule. Nintendo says the new version has redrawn graphics, orchestral music, voice acting, longer story scenes and reworked camera and movement controls.
The release is part of the series’ 40th anniversary. Nintendo is also planning a world concert tour starting in 2027 and a live-action Legend of Zelda movie due in theaters April 30, 2027.
Source: Nintendo of America announcement; Nintendo Co. news release, in Japanese; Nintendo U.S. store page.