Nintendo says The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sold over 5.2 million copies on Switch 2 in its first four days. That’s the most of any Nintendo-published Switch 2 game in that window.
Nintendo’s announcement puts Japan at 810,000 units (about 15.6% of the total by our arithmetic). That leaves roughly 4.39 million copies in the rest of the world, though Techtroduce reports Nintendo didn’t split them by region. Nintendo also claims a record, but a narrow one:
This is the highest global sales for any Nintendo-published Nintendo Switch 2 game in its first four days.
Nintendo, in its sales announcement
It’s a first-four-days claim, not an all-time one. Nintendo Everything notes that Mario Kart World is the only title that has sold more on the console overall.
The figure is the first official number for the remake, which launched on Nintendo Switch 2 on 5 November 2026, the date Nintendo confirmed in September. Until now, the only data came from third parties. The game is a full remake of the 1998 Nintendo 64 original, with reimagined visuals and enhanced playability.
In the UK, Nintendo Everything says the game had the second-biggest Zelda launch of all time and the biggest physical game launch of 2026. Nintendo Wire says UK physical sales ran 35% above Breath of the Wild’s 2017 launch, citing The Game Business’s Christopher Dring. Even so, the UK launch sold about half of what Tears of the Kingdom managed in 2023.
Sales in the US will take longer to see. Circana will publish its November report on 17 December.
More Zelda may be on the way too. Tbreak has reported that the game’s Switch 2 files point to Master Quest DLC, though Nintendo hasn’t announced anything.
