Nintendo just made it official: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 is the fastest-selling Nintendo-published Switch 2 game ever — over 5.2 million copies worldwide in its first four days. Not bad for a game that originally shipped in 1998 and has been remade, re-released, and speedrun into oblivion for nearly three decades. Apparently nobody's tired of Hyrule.
The numbers come straight from Nintendo's own internal sales data, counting both digital and physical copies since the Nov. 5 global launch. That makes the remake the fastest-selling Nintendo-published game on the console both globally and across the U.S., Canada, and Latin America — a record that previously belonged to launch-window heavyweights.
This is a full remake, not a lazy port: reimagined visuals, orchestral music, voice acting, expanded cutscenes, and reworked camera and movement controls — Nintendo is clearly treating this as its big Zelda 40th Anniversary swing. And the anniversary machine is just warming up: a worldwide concert tour kicks off in 2027, and the live-action Zelda movie hits theaters April 30, 2027. Critics are on board too — the remake is already breaking Metacritic records.
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Source: Game Informer{target="_blank" rel="noopener"} on Nintendo's official sales data