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After years of rumors and countless fan-made Unreal Engine tech demos of varying quality, it sounds for illustration we mightiness yet beryllium getting a ground-up remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
That’s according to Nintendo insider NatetheHate, who said successful nan latest version of his podcast that a remake of nan seminal Nintendo 64 crippled would beryllium coming to Switch 2 successful nan 2nd half of 2026. The reliable tipster said he doesn’t cognize whether Nintendo is making a 1:1 remake of nan original 3D Zelda entry, aliases thing "that’s a small much free to research creation choices," adding that he was initially reluctant to stock nan accusation he’d received successful lawsuit we ended up getting small much than an HD remaster. But it sounds for illustration this is simply a much eager undertaking than that.
Ocarina of Time has of people been remastered before, pinch 2011’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for nan 3DS mostly considered to beryllium nan champion type of nan crippled you tin play today. The original 1998 crippled is besides easy accessible via emulation done Nintendo Switch Online, but a modern remake for Switch 2 does make immoderate sense.
For one, 2026 marks nan series’ 40th anniversary, and if you asked each Zelda instrumentality live what their favourite introduction is, you tin stake that OoT would characteristic beautiful precocious successful nan last rankings. We’re besides getting that live-action Zelda movie adjacent year, and Nintendo will nary uncertainty want to make judge audiences person done their homework connected nan games that inspired it.
Of course, nary of this is official, truthful person those grains of brackish astatine nan ready, but NatetheHate did besides declare that anyone hoping for a caller 3D Mario crippled to get successful 2026 is going to beryllium disappointed. That’s much apt to get successful 2027. In amended news, we’re apparently besides getting a marque caller "classic-style" Star Fox crippled this summer, which would people nan return of nan spacefaring Fox McCloud aft a decade spent successful Nintendo’s unloved mascot closet.
This rumor seems logical aft Nintendo’s astonishment announcement that nan anthropomorphic reddish fox is going to characteristic successful The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which arrives adjacent week. He’s being voiced by Glen Powell, because of people he is.
NatetheHate’s accusation connected each of nan supra has been corroborated by VGC, which says it lines up pinch what it's heard from its ain sources. And successful nan lawsuit of nan Ocarina of Time remake, that caller Lego group abruptly makes a batch of sense.
If so we do get nan remake of Metacritic’s highest-rated game of each clip later this year, beingness collectors could person a difficult prime to make, aft Nintendo announced that beingness versions of first-party Switch 2 games are astir to go much costly than their integer counterparts. This adjusted pricing will travel into effect erstwhile Yoshi and nan Mysterious Book launches connected May 21.
