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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has become the fastest-selling Nintendo-published Switch 2 game, shifting more than 5.2 million copies in four days, Nintendo announced in a press release. The result caps a warmly received launch for the remake, which Eurogamer's review awarded five stars, calling it "an astonishing remake" with "a proper ace up its sleeve".
There is one caveat to the record: Nintendo specified that it applies only to Nintendo-published games. As Eurogamer notes, since Nintendo's own titles are the most popular Switch 2 games, the fastest-selling-ever claim presumably holds, but that broader reading is presumption rather than confirmed fact.
The release has already had knock-on effects, with a jump in US Switch 2 console sales attributed to the game's arrival. It also lands in a November window that some had questioned given GTA 6's proximity.