Nintendo says The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is "off to a great start" and the 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console has also been "very positive," heading off speculation from an investor that price hikes may be hurting momentum.

Taking questions as part of its latest financial briefing, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is pressed on how well the Switch 2 is selling its wares after the console's price jumped to $500 earlier this year. Investors reckon things are slowing down, and they don't like that. As such, one asks the Nintendo suits whether they think current financial goals will still be met.

The short answer is absolutely; just look at how well Zelda's Ocarina of Time remake and 40th-anniversary console are doing.

"Adoption has progressed smoothly over the roughly one and a half years since Nintendo Switch 2 launched last June, and the installed base now exceeds 25 million units," Furukawa says. "At the end of last year's holiday season, we explained that there were regional differences in how well our expectations were met. But the March release of Pokemon Pokopia acted as a driver of global hardware sales, and we entered the new fiscal year with good momentum."

Furukawa continues by saying that, while the Switch 2 did indeed increase in price, the impact hasn't been too great because most people were given plenty of notice and have had plenty of hardware and software bundles to compensate for it.

That takes us to today, where Nintendo is seemingly riding high thanks to all things Zelda.

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