Nintendo says the Ocarina of Time remake has sold more than 5.2 million copies worldwide in its first four days, the best four-day start of any Nintendo-published Switch 2 game. The count covers physical and digital, and 810,000 of those copies were sold in Japan.
The remake launched on 5 November. Nintendo hasn’t split the 5.2 million between digital and physical, and the record only covers games it publishes itself, so it isn’t a claim about every game on the console. There are no sales figures beyond those first four days yet.
Japan’s charts give a closer look at one market. Famitsu has the remake at the top with 537,041 boxed copies in its first week, which leaves a gap of roughly 273,000 against Nintendo’s Japan number. That’s presumably digital.
The UK tells a similar story on the physical side. Early retail figures make it the country’s second-biggest Zelda launch ever, 35 percent bigger than Breath of the Wild’s opening, though only about half of what Tears of the Kingdom managed in its first week. It’s also the biggest boxed launch of the year there so far.
Critics love it too. The remake sits on a 96 on Metacritic, the highest score of any game this year.