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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time exceeds 5 million copies sold in first week

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time exceeds 5 million copies sold in first week

The remake of the 1998 game becomes the second-highest selling Switch 2 title in only four days.

Newsbrief: Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 has sold 5.2 million copies since the game was released on November 5. This number includes both physical and digital copies and is catching up in a matter of days what took the original game—itself no slouch when it comes to fast sales—two years with 7.6 million copies, according to archived Nintendo data.

It also places Ocarina of Time as the second best-selling title on the Switch 2, trailing behind Mario Kart World.

For more information on Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 sales results, be sure to read Nintendo's full announcement here.

Imran Khan has been in the games industry in various forms for over two decades. He has been a former senior editor at Game Informer, a professional loudmouth at Kinda Funny, and news director at Fanbyte. He has also been doing PR for Vicarious PR and Head of U.S. PR for Japanese VR studio MyDearest, in addition to Producer work on their latest title Brazen Blaze.

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