Zelda: Ocarina of Time sells 5.2 million on Switch 2 in four days

Turns out you can go home again, as long as home has a talking tree and a fairy who will not stop yelling at you. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2 sold more than 5.2 million units worldwide in the four days after its November 5 launch.

That makes it Nintendo's fastest-selling Nintendo-published Switch 2 game, both globally and in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Nintendo says the figure comes from its own internal sales data and counts digital and physical copies alike.

Young Link and Saria face each other beneath giant mossy roots, two glowing fairies hovering nearby — Link and Saria, each with a fairy in tow, in the remake's Kokiri Forest.

More than a fresh coat of paint

This isn't an upscale with a sharper filter slapped on top. It's a full remake of the 1998 Nintendo 64 original, the one where Link sets out across Hyrule on a journey that unfolds across two different eras.

Nintendo rebuilt a lot along the way. The headline changes:

Reimagined visuals
Orchestral music and voice acting
Expanded cutscenes
Reworked camera and movement controls

Young Link runs toward a giant owl statue in a circular hall lined with statues of defeated monsters — A hall of statues honoring the bosses and monsters Link has beaten.

Nintendo is pitching the remake as a perfect entry point into the series, and that tracks. If you somehow skipped it the first time around, this is about the friendliest way in. If you didn't, there's a decent chance you're one of the 5.2 million.

Ganondorf in dark armor rides a rearing black horse under a lightning-streaked sky outside a castle — Ganondorf makes his entrance the only way he knows how: on a rearing horse, mid-thunderstorm.

Part of a much bigger birthday

The remake is one slice of the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary celebration, which marks four decades since the first game in the series launched in Japan in 1986.

Woven tapestry art of the Great Deku Tree, Hyrule Castle, Princess Zelda and the Ocarina of Time — The remake tells its backstory through tapestry-style art.

The party keeps going well into next year. A worldwide concert tour celebrating the series' music begins in 2027, and The Legend of Zelda live-action film arrives in theaters on April 30, 2027. Nintendo is rounding all of it up on its 40th Anniversary website, and the concert tour has its own page.

Adult Link plays a blue ocarina with eyes closed as streaks of light rush past, the Song of Time notes below — Adult Link plays the Song of Time, and yes, the notes still live in your head rent-free.

For a company that says it has sold more than 6.2 billion video games and over 870 million hardware units since the Famicom days, a few million copies of anything might sound like a rounding error. Four days for 5.2 million is not. Not bad for a game that already sold us on it once.

Young Princess Zelda in a purple and white royal outfit stands by a castle window — Zelda, a Phantom Ganon showdown, Link and his fairy, the Ocarina itself, Hyrule Field and a chatty Goron.

Adult Link swings his sword at a glowing green energy ball fired by a phantom rider in a dark arena — Zelda, a Phantom Ganon showdown, Link and his fairy, the Ocarina itself, Hyrule Field and a chatty Goron.

Between the remake, the concerts and the movie, it's a very good year to be a Zelda fan. We'd suggest brushing up on your Song of Storms.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is available now, exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2. You can buy it from Nintendo here. Stay tuned to GamingTrend.com for our review, and for all your upcoming reviews, previews, and gaming news!