Nintendo's Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake sells 5.2 million in four days

The Switch 2 remake of the 1998 classic launched on Nov. 5, and 5.2 million copies have already found a home in just its first four days on sale.

11 Nov 2026, 19:141 min read

Link, the hero of The Legend of Zelda, stands in the green fields of Hyrule in a scene from the Ocarina of Time remake on Nintendo Switch 2. — Image: The Japan Times

Hyrule is clearly still calling. Nintendo's remake of "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" sold 5.2 million copies in its first four days on sale.

The game launched on Nov. 5 for the Nintendo Switch 2. It is a complete recreation of the 1998 action-adventure classic originally made for the Nintendo 64, a game many people still count among the best ever made.

This isn't the first time Nintendo has taken Link back to Hyrule's Temple of Time. The original arrived in Japan on Nov. 21, 1998, and a 3D remake followed on the Nintendo 3DS in June 2011, with updated graphics and 3D visuals.

This time the whole game has been rebuilt from the ground up for the Switch 2. Judging by the first four days, fans who grew up with the N64 original, and newcomers meeting it for the first time, were happy to go back.

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