Ocarina Of Time Remake Sells 5.2 Million Copies In 4 Days

Ocarina Of Time Remake Is Already Among Zelda's Top Ten Best-Selling Games Nintendo Published Nov 11, 2026, 1:58 AM EST Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Sign in to your TheGamer account It feels a little like everyone has been playing nothing but The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the last few days, and a first look at its sales figures might explain why it feels that way. 5.2 million copies sold in its first four days, putting it way up there in the Zelda sales rankings before the end of its first week. Ocarina Of Time Tops Five Million Copies Sold In Four Days In a statement shared by Nintendo (thanks, Wario64), the studio confirmed the Ocarina of Time Remake's massive launch sales, noting that 810,000 of those sales were in Japan. It also confirms that this is the fastest-selling Switch 2 exclusive so far, outpacing Donkey Kong Bananza, Pokemon Pokopia, and even Mario Kart World which launched with the console. And was even bundled with it. You might see this news and say to yourself "Well, of course a Zelda game has sold this well this fast," but Zelda games selling tens of millions as standard is still a fairly new phenomenon. So new that the Ocarina remake selling 5.2 million copies makes it the eighth best-selling game in the series after just four days, right above Phantom Hourglass which sold 4.76 million, and right behind the Nintendo 3DS version of Ocarina which sold 6.44 million copies. Some of the bigger Zelda games the Ocarina of Time remake has managed to outsell in less than a week include A Link to the Past (4.61 million), The Wind Waker (4.43 million), A Link Between Worlds (4.26 million), and Skyward Sword (4.15 million). Now all that remains to be seen is just how high up the Zelda rankings the new Ocarina can climb. Another 1.31 million copies, which it will likely hit within the next few days, and it will have outsold the original The Legend of Zelda on the NES. Hard to believe considering its status among video games as a whole, but the remake is already within touching distance of the original Ocarina of Time which sold 7.6 million copies. The Nintendo 64's limited sales are largely to blame for that. The N64 finished its run having sold 32 million units. The Switch 2 will likely move past that during this coming holiday season since more than 26 million of them have been sold already. That means around one in five Switch 2 owners bought Ocarina of Time within four days of its release. Twilight Princess is the third best-selling Zelda game having sold 8.93 million copies across both its GameCube and Wii versions. It's whether the Ocarina remake can sell enough to breathe the same rarified air as this new era's Zelda games, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, and based on its launch numbers, it almost certainly can. Breath of the Wild was the game that took the series to new heights and set a new standard for Zelda, launching with the Switch and selling almost 35 million copies. Tears of the Kingdom comfortably became the second best-selling Zelda game at 21.73 million copies. Ocarina might be big enough to hit those numbers too, especially as more Switch 2s are sold and along with the likes of Mario Kart World and Pokopia, it just becomes one of the games everyone feels like they have to buy when they get the console. More to follow...