If you pay close attention to the games industry you might have noticed that Nintendo released a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time last week. And if you went so far as to buy a copy of the Switch 2 release, you find yourself in the company of over five million others. The all-new version of the N64 classic has sold an extraordinary 5.2 million copies in its first four days on sale, bringing it extraordinary close to the original version’s lifetime sales.

In 1998, the Nintendo 64 version of Ocarina of Time literally broke records , receiving the beer company’s accolade for most pre-orders of all time, at 325,000. In its first week it sold a million copies, reaching 2.5 million by three weeks. It was only outsold that year by GoldenEye , and two years later had sold a mighty 7.6 million copies worldwide. All very impressive stuff.…