{"id":92818,"date":"2026-11-09T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92818"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:37:11","slug":"switch-2-just-had-its-best-sales-week-of-2026-and-its-all-because-of-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92818","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Just Had Its Best Sales Week Of 2026, And It\u2019s All Because Of Zelda"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\">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\" 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\" \/>The 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2. <\/p>\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<\/p>\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,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92821,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92818\/revisions\/92821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}