Switch 2 Sells 68,733 in Japan Ahead of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
Famitsu data reported by Nintendo Life puts Switch 2 at 68,733 units for 26 Oct to 1 Nov, far above its usual weekly level, with the PS5 family at 16,235.
The Nintendo Switch 2 sold 68,733 units in Japan between 26 October and 1 November, according to Famitsu sales figures covered by Nintendo Life. That is well above the roughly mid-20,000s the console usually posts in a week, and it brings the system’s lifetime Japanese total to 6,521,352.
Nintendo Life says it can only assume the jump comes from the new Zelda Special Edition model and from anticipation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, which was a matter of days away when the figures were recorded. Famitsu’s data itself does not state a cause.
The rest of the week’s hardware chart
The PS5 family took the combined-SKU lead among the other platforms with 16,235 units. The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition accounted for most of that with 15,988 sales, followed by the PS5 Pro at 149 and the standard PS5 at 98. Switch 1 models together sold 5,853: the Switch Lite sold 2,589, the OLED Model 2,469 and the original Switch 795.
The Xbox Series X sold 616 units, the Series X Digital Edition 192 and the Series S 84.
On the software side, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort stayed first on Switch 2 with 23,466 units, bringing its total to 88,098. Final Fantasy Resonance placed second on Switch 2 (14,462) and fourth on PS5 (11,181). The Switch 2 edition of Minecraft debuted in third with 11,754.
Why it matters
The week gives a snapshot of how the Switch 2 is moving in Japan just before a major first-party release. GameSpot calls the Ocarina of Time remake a showpiece for the Switch 2 and one of the best-looking games on the system, which makes it a prominent title for the platform.
The game is also drawing attention beyond the console. GamesRadar reports that a player has posted a video of what appears to be the remake running on a PC through an “experimental” Switch 2 emulator, within hours of the global launch. The player says the game was dumped from their own copy. GamesRadar notes that Nintendo took down 400 Switch emulator repositories on GitHub in August.
What we don’t know yet
The sources do not say how much of the hardware increase came from the Special Edition model versus the game itself. The figures also cover only the week before launch, so they say nothing about how sales held up once the remake was out.
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