A personal fan blog run by two Zelda fans, tracking the now-confirmed special-edition Switch 2 hardware releasing October 29, 2026 alongside Nintendo's Ocarina of Time remake. Not a Nintendo product, store, or news outlet.
Nintendo confirmed at the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct (September 8, 2026) that a special-edition Switch 2 console celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary launches October 29, 2026 — one week ahead of the game itself. The console features Triforce motifs on the system, the dock, and the Joy-Con 2 controllers, and now has a confirmed price: $519.99, in line with most pre-Direct guesses of $499.99–$529.99 — though pre-orders sold out everywhere within about four hours of going live. Also shown at the Direct, and also priced now: a matching Pro Controller ($99.99, or $109.99 for the Nintendo Store-exclusive version with a display stand) and a carrying case ($39.99), both releasing the same October 29 date as the console. See our pre-order status below for what's actually available to buy right now.
The game — The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake — launches November 5, 2026, exclusively on Switch 2. Nintendo confirmed full voice acting, a new jump ability, and an open version of Hyrule Castle Town among the changes from the 1998 original. Its price is confirmed too: $59.99 digital / $69.99 physical, matching the figure that leaked via a since-pulled Nintendo Australia eShop listing before the Direct — in line with recent Switch 2 remakes like Star Fox and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.
One more detail worth flagging: Nintendo confirmed it's also selling a real, playable Ocarina peripheral that works with the game's microphone-based song mechanics — a first for the series' hardware tie-ins.
Last confirmed: September 8, 2026, Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct.
Update: the console pre-order gap didn't last long — it opened, then sold out within hours. Here's the current state of all four pieces of this release.
The game — pre-orders are live on the Nintendo eShop, including a limited-edition physical version, at $59.99 digital / $69.99 physical. Pre-orders opened immediately following the September 8 Direct.
The console — went live direct from Nintendo and at Best Buy at $519.99 (a $20 premium over the standard $499.99 Switch 2, close to the Tears of the Kingdom OLED's $10 premium in 2023), then sold out everywhere in about four hours. Resellers are already listing it on eBay for $750–$900+. This price covers the console, dock, and Joy-Con only.
The Pro Controller and carrying case — also live now, at $99.99 (controller, $109.99 for the display-stand version) and $39.99 (case). Stock has been inconsistent rather than a flat sellout: the controller went fast on Nintendo's own store but Best Buy stock has been going up and down, while the case has been easier to find.
Full listings and links on our products page. We're watching for the controller and case to go live and will update this page the moment they do.
Nintendo has a long, fairly consistent pattern of pairing a major Zelda release with special-edition hardware — the gold Ocarina of Time-branded Game Boy Advance SP, the Skyward Sword and Breath of the Wild Wii U/Switch bundles, and most recently the Tears of the Kingdom OLED console in 2023. None of those were ever pre-announced far in advance; they typically leaked in the weeks or months before a reveal, then got folded into a Direct alongside the game itself. That pattern is exactly why an unconfirmed leak is worth tracking closely rather than dismissing: it's the stage every prior release in this line has actually gone through before becoming official. We go deeper on that pattern in our history of Zelda special editions.
What makes this case slightly murkier than past ones is the branding ambiguity: early coverage described the leaked hardware as tied specifically to Ocarina of Time, but framing in more recent reporting has drifted toward calling it general "40th Anniversary" hardware instead, which could mean it ships alongside the remake without being exclusively themed around it. We track that distinction because it changes what "released" would even mean for the purposes of this tracker's stage above — see our breakdown of the Direct vs. the leak for the full reasoning.
Update, September 8, 2026: that ambiguity's resolved now — it's confirmed 40th Anniversary branded hardware, releasing a week ahead of the game itself. See the confirmed details above.
Real-time posts from accounts that are usually first to catch leaks, deal listings, and announcements. We picked these two specifically: @Wario64 is generally the fastest account online for retail stock and pricing the moment something goes live, and @NintendoLife is a games-press account that reliably covers hardware leaks with more context than a bare screenshot repost. Neither is exclusive to this hardware — treat their posts here as a firehose to skim, not a curated feed — but they're the two accounts most likely to catch something before it reaches the headline aggregator above.