Nintendo reportedly has a new remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time coming in 2026, a major release that will be closely timed to the series’ 40th anniversary. If accurate, the remake for Switch 2 would be one of Nintendo’s most ambitious (and riskiest) remakes to date.
The existence of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake was unofficially outed by reliable leaker Nate the Hate in his most recent podcast. The remake, he said, is planned to be one of Nintendo’s major holiday 2026 releases. Beyond the game’s existence and a release window — and an assertion that there won’t be a new 3D Mario game until next year — there aren’t many details on what the new Ocarina of Time will be.
Nintendo is no stranger to remakes, but it cautiously approaches what it updates. The company already revisited The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time once, updating the Nintendo 64 game in 2011 for the Nintendo 3DS. Ocarina of Time 3D featured updated graphics, quality of life changes (like touchscreen controls that made the game’s infamous Water Temple much more tolerable), and stereoscopic 3D effects. The 3DS version was somewhere between a remaster and a remake, hewing closely to Link’s original 3D adventure.
In 2019, Nintendo also revisited The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening with a Switch remake that radically overhauled the original Game Boy game’s visual style. Despite some technical issues that plagued the Switch version of Link’s Awakening, the remake was positively received.
