The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is setting records for Nintendo, with the return to Link's 1998 adventure having the company's most successful Switch 2 game launch yet.

Specifically, as confirmed in a press release today, the Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake surpassed 5.2 million sales within four days of launch. That accounts for both digital and physical copies, though the exact split isn't reported – I'd be curious to know how many fans opted for the latter to secure one of those gorgeous foil covers.

Of that 5.2 million, 810,000 came from Japan. In total, "this is the highest global sales for any Nintendo-published Nintendo Switch 2 game in its first four days," Nintendo says.

To put it into perspective, the delightful Pokemon life sim Pokopia sold 2.2 million copies in its first four days when it launched earlier this year, which was enough to beat the lifetime sales of many spin-offs that had come before it. Even so, that's not even half of what Ocarina of Time remake has managed at launch. Meanwhile, initial Switch 2 system-seller Mario Kart World had sold 5.63 million units by the end of June 2025, its first month of launch – while still a plentiful number, it clearly didn't reach it fast enough to beat Zelda.

Ocarina of Time's sales are so huge, in fact, that it's already beaten the lifetime sales of the majority of Nintendo-published Switch 2 games. 48 million sales. 34 million by the end of its first month.

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