Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake sells 5.2 million, sets Nintendo Switch 2 record

Nintendo has put a rather large number behind the early enthusiasm for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The company says the Switch 2 remake sold more than 5.2 million units worldwide in its first four days.

That total includes 810,000 units in Japan and, importantly, covers both physical and digital copies. Nintendo says it is the highest four-day global sales figure achieved by any Nintendo-published Switch 2 game so far.

The remake launched worldwide on 5 November, meaning it passed 5.2 million before its first full week was over. For an adventure first released in 1998, that is quite a second life.

UK momentum turns global

The worldwide figure follows an unusually strong start in Britain. UK physical launch sales were 35% higher than Breath of the Wild, while reaching roughly half the first-week sales of Tears of the Kingdom. At the time, it was also the country's strongest physical game launch of 2026.

Those UK numbers were encouraging, but today's global total makes the scale rather clearer: this is not simply nostalgia doing brisk business in one market.

Nintendo describes the Switch 2 release as a full remake of the Nintendo 64 original, with reimagined visuals and enhanced playability while preserving the core experience. It also supports Zelda Notes through the Nintendo Switch App, including game-specific features for the new release.

Almost three decades after Link first set off across Hyrule, Ocarina of Time is now setting a Nintendo-published Switch 2 sales record. Some games age gracefully; this one appears to have picked up a sales accelerator on the way.