{"id":51090,"date":"2026-11-12T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-exceeds-5-million-copies-sold-in-first-week\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:35:03","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-exceeds-5-million-copies-sold-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-exceeds-5-million-copies-sold-in-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time exceeds 5 million copies sold in first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan,<\/p>\n<p>Contributing Editor,GameDeveloper.com<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"contributors-date\">November 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>schedule1 Min Read<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>via Nintendo<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Newsbrief: Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 has sold 5.2 million copies since the game was released on November 5. This number includes both physical and digital copies and is catching up in a matter of days what took the original game\u2014itself no slouch when it comes to fast sales\u2014two years with 7.6 million copies, according to archived Nintendo data.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">It also places Ocarina of Time as the second best-selling title on the Switch 2, trailing behind Mario Kart World.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">For more information on Ocarina of Time&#8217;s Switch 2 sales results, be sure to read Nintendo&#8217;s full announcement here.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"contributor-summary-subtitle\">Contributing Editor, GameDeveloper.com<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Imran Khan has been in the games industry in various forms for over two decades. He has been a former senior editor at Game Informer, a professional loudmouth at Kinda Funny, and news director at Fanbyte. He has also been doing PR for Vicarious PR and Head of U.S. PR for Japanese VR studio MyDearest,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-exceeds-5-million-copies-solid-in-first-week\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan, Contributing Editor, GameDeveloper.com November 11, 2026 schedule 1 Min Read via Nintendo Newsbrief: Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 has sold 5.2 million copies since the game was released on November 5. This number includes both physical and digital copies and is catching up in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}