Three months of silence on pricing ended not with an announcement but with a storefront slip: Nintendo’s Australian shop attached a number to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake.
Posted to X earlier today, the listing shows a discounted price of $94.95 AUD against a full price of $109.95 AUD. The eStore still has nothing live. Even so, the Australian figures give enough to work backwards to the rest of the world.
That points to £49.99 in the UK and $59.99 in the US.
Why $59.99 stings for some people
The number itself isn’t outrageous. It’s just not the one plenty of players were quietly holding out for, considering this is a remake of an N64 game. These are also digital prices only, which leaves room for physical copies to land higher.
The replies latched onto precisely that gap. As one commenter put it:
“Will probably be 59.99 at Walmart and Amazon for physical.”
Someone else worked through what the digital discount says about how big Nintendo sees this project:
“remember everyone that digital eshop prices are $10 less than what the physical games are, so they might be intending this game to be the scale of a $70 game”
And one reply came from someone who had steeled himself for a worse number:
“Wow. I expected $80. This would be great. I’d buy a $100 special edition if they made it tbh”
Everything else is still a black box
Since the June announcement, Nintendo have given away almost nothing. A short cinematic narrated by Brian Cox is the entire haul so far.
Whether this turns out to be a faithful 1to1 remake or something bolder — additional content or new gameplay mechanics folded in — remains known only inside Nintendo. Anticipation has run at an all-time high since June, an odd thing to keep alive on nothing more than a cinematic and a leaked price.
A remake had been on fans’ wishlists well before it became official. Getting the confirmation was the sweet part.
The Direct is hours away
The proper reveal is set for The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, going live today at 10am ET or 4pm CEST. A release date looks all but locked in. The open question is how much genuine gameplay Nintendo intends to put on screen.
A standard Nintendo Direct follows tomorrow, leaving room for a few more surprises before 2026 wraps up. Perhaps more N64 classics handed new leases on life. One can only hope.
My own ask is modest: Link and Epona at a full gallop across Hyrule Field, running on modern hardware. If the leak holds, that’s only hours out.