The Ocarina of Time remake is now live on Nintendo Switch 2 — and it’s not just a nostalgia play. It’s the first major title to treat the console’s upgraded hardware as a baseline, not an afterthought. Nintendo confirmed its global launch at yesterday’s New York City event, with no regional delays or staggered rollouts reported.
The game is available now as a digital download and physical cartridge worldwide, priced at $69.99 in the US and ₹5,999 in India. No UK or EU pricing was disclosed in the reporting. It runs natively at 60fps with dynamic resolution scaling, per Nintendo’s official specs cited in Eurogamer’s coverage, though those specs weren’t broken out by region or SKU.
The release coincides with Star Fox’s own Switch 2 debut, which has already sold 1.17 million copies globally since its earlier 2026 launch. That figure comes from Nintendo’s latest financial disclosures, not estimates or leaks. Nate Bihldorff, Nintendo’s SVP of product development and publishing, called remakes and new games “of equal importance” to the company’s strategy, a direct pivot from years of internal emphasis on wholly original IP.
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