{"id":1595,"date":"2026-11-10T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2026-11-10T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:01:47","slug":"switch-2-just-had-its-best-sales-week-of-2026-and-its-all-because-of-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Just Had Its Best Sales Week Of 2026, And It\u2019s All Because Of Zelda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo just released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time&#8217;s remake for Switch 2, and the themed console that Nintendo debuted with the game has, perhaps unsurprisingly, sold incredibly well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mzvb75guwk24\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mzvb75guwk24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared new data<\/a> that confirms the Switch 2 just had its best sales week of 2026 so far, based on dollar sales, thanks to the 40th Anniversary Edition console. The $520 console launched on October 29, and Circana&#8217;s reporting period for the week ended on October 31. <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1953840\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"623\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-09-at-3.30.37-PM.png?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1953840\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The special-edition console sports a geometric design inspired by the Zelda series, with a large Triforce symbol on the dock. The accompanying Joy-Cons feature the game&#8217;s classic green and gold color scheme, along with specific designs based on the RPG series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system doesn&#8217;t include a copy of the game, which launched on November 5, and is priced at $60 digitally and $70 on a physical cartridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sales of the 40th Anniversary Edition console helped lift total spending on hardware in the US for the week by 81% compared to the same week in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ocarina of Time remake has been a huge hit critically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/the-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-shows-that-a-masterpiece-is-ageless\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/the-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-shows-that-a-masterpiece-is-ageless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scoring a 9\/10 here at GameSpot.<\/a> It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-ocarina-of-time-remake-has-claimed-2026-review-crown-but-gta-6-could-have-something-to-say-about-it\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-ocarina-of-time-remake-has-claimed-2026-review-crown-but-gta-6-could-have-something-to-say-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-rated game of 2026 so far<\/a>. Nintendo has not revealed any sales numbers for the game, however.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo just released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time&#8217;s remake for Switch 2, and the themed console that Nintendo debuted with the game has, perhaps unsurprisingly, sold incredibly well. Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella shared new data that confirms the Switch 2 just had its best sales week of 2026 so far, based on dollar sales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}