Where to Buy the Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2: Every Retailer, Checked
- The console is $519.99 and releases 29 October 2026. Walmart lists it a penny lower at $519.00.
- 🔴 It does not include a Zelda game. Nintendo’s own release says so in plain words, and the Ocarina of Time remake is a separate purchase on 5 November.
- When we checked all five US listings on 10 September, GameStop was the only one still taking an online order. Best Buy, Target and Walmart were all closed.
- Walmart was open on our first check and out of stock about 22 hours later. That is the speed this moves at.
- Best Buy requires a signed-in account to buy this item at all. Create one before a drop, not during.
- The matching Pro Controller is $99.99 and the carrying case $39.99, both also 29 October.
- Resale is reported well above list. We could not verify US resale prices ourselves and say so rather than repeating a number we did not see.
The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 is $519.99 and lands on 29 October. Getting one is the hard part.
Nintendo announced it at the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on 8 September 2026, pre-orders opened the same day, and most of them were gone within hours.
We opened all five US listings ourselves rather than repeating anyone’s stock report. Here is what was actually on the screen — and what changed while we were writing.
What we found at each retailer
Checked 10 September 2026, around 15:25 UTC. Every state below is the buy button on the product page, not a badge in a search result.
| Retailer | Price | What the page actually showed |
|---|---|---|
| GameStop | $519.99 | “Add to Cart” enabled for shipping. “Pre-Order for Pick Up” was greyed out. |
| Best Buy | $519.99 | “Coming Soon”, disabled. Plus a “High Demand Product” notice and an account requirement. |
| Target | $519.99 | “Preorders sold out.” |
| Walmart | $519.00 | “Out of stock”, with a Get notified when this item is available button. |
| Nintendo Store | not shown | Buy widget stuck on “Loading”. Offers a “Find retailers” button instead. |
So at the moment we looked, GameStop was the only one that would take an order — and only for delivery, not store pickup.
🔴 Do not treat that as a recommendation to rush. It is a reading taken at one moment, and the next section is about exactly how little that moment is worth.
One of these changed while we were writing
Walmart was open when we started and closed when we finished.
On our first read, Walmart’s product page carried a live, enabled “Preorder” button at $519.00, sold and shipped by Walmart, with free shipping and a Preorder Price Guarantee. About 22 hours later, the same URL showed “Out of stock” and a notify-me button.
Nothing was announced. It simply ran out.
That is the single most useful thing on this page. A stock table for a product like this has a shelf life measured in hours, including this one. If you are reading this a day after it was written, open the links yourself before believing any row above.
The price is not the same everywhere
It is a penny, and it is worth knowing anyway.
Three of the four retailers list $519.99. Walmart lists $519.00. That is not a sale or a price cut — it is Walmart’s usual habit of shaving the cents off a round-number MSRP, and it applied even while the item was unbuyable.
The accessories are consistent everywhere we could read them:
| Item | Price | Releases |
|---|---|---|
| Console | $519.99 | 29 October 2026 |
| Pro Controller – 40th Anniversary Edition | $99.99 | 29 October 2026 |
| Carrying Case & Screen Protector | $39.99 | 29 October 2026 |
What a full set costs, if you want the arithmetic done:
| Running total | |
|---|---|
| Console | $519.99 |
| + Pro Controller | $619.98 |
| + Carrying case | $659.97 |
| + Ocarina of Time (5 Nov, sold separately) | ~$719.97 |
Before tax. The game price is the widely reported $59.99 and is the one figure here we did not read off a retailer listing ourselves.
What is not in the box
🔴 There is no Zelda game in it. This is the most common misunderstanding about this console and Nintendo could not have been plainer: its own release states, of all three products, “This product does not come with a game.”
What you do get, per Nintendo’s listing:
- The Nintendo Switch 2 system, with Zelda-series patterns on the back
- Joy-Con 2 controllers in green and gold
- A black and gold dock with the Triforce symbol on the front
- Joy-Con 2 Grip and two wrist straps
- AC adapter and USB-C charging cable
- Ultra High Speed HDMI cable
The design is the entire product. If you were expecting a bundled game to justify the $20 premium over a standard Switch 2, it is not there.
Best Buy needs an account before the drop, not during
This is the one piece of preparation that is worth doing today.
Best Buy’s listing carries a notice that most write-ups skip: “An account is required to purchase this item.” Alongside it sits a “High Demand Product” panel in Best Buy’s own words — the item is expected to sell out quickly, and it says it has updated its reservation process.
Creating an account takes two minutes and cannot be done in the ninety seconds a restock lasts. Whatever you think of reservation systems, being signed in before one opens costs you nothing and not being signed in can cost you the console.
The same logic applies elsewhere: have the address and payment method already saved.
The Ocarina of Time trap
The remake is a separate purchase, a week later.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 was shown at the same 8 September Direct and releases on 5 November 2026 — one week after the console. It is sold on its own.
⚠️ Some coverage has printed 19 November for this. That date is wrong; multiple independent outlets reporting the Direct give 5 November, and that is the date used here.
So the console and the game it is celebrating do not arrive together, and neither includes the other.
What we will not tell you about restocks
Nobody has published a restock schedule, so nobody can tell you when the next one is.
Target’s listing suggests checking back on the release date. Best Buy says it has changed its reservation process without saying when it opens. Nintendo’s own page pushes you to retailers. That is the entire published record.
What that supports: creating accounts in advance, saving payment details, following the retailers’ own alert options, and checking the four listings directly rather than through an aggregator.
What it does not support: a date, a time, or a number describing your chances. If you see one of those, it was invented. This site does not publish odds on anything, and a console drop is not the exception.
Resale, and why there is no number of our own here
Resale prices are reported well above list. Notebookcheck reported eBay listings at $750 to $850 after pre-orders sold out, with matching Pro Controllers around $200; Resell Calendar reported figures up to around $900.
⚠️ We could not verify that ourselves. eBay served our session a Taiwan-localised page priced in New Taiwan dollars, and Amazon told us it was delivering to Taiwan. We are not going to convert a NT$ listing into a dollar figure and present it as the American resale market — those are different buyers, different shipping and a different price.
So the resale range above is somebody else’s observation, attributed, and you should treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a quote.
The one thing worth saying plainly: the console is $519.99 at four major retailers and will be restocked by all of them at some point before and after 29 October. Paying $800 today buys you six weeks.
Is the Japanese version cheaper?
It is a different product, and it is not sold to you.
Nintendo’s Japanese release prices the system at ¥62,980, the Pro Controller with a display stand at ¥12,980, and the case at ¥3,980. Those figures circulate in conversion posts as though they were a bargain.
Two problems. The Japanese system is a Japanese-language system, sold in Japan only. And the Pro Controller SKU is not the same item — the Japanese one includes a display stand that the $99.99 US listing does not mention.
The bottom line
$519.99, 29 October, no game included. At the time we checked, GameStop was the only US retailer that would take an online order, and Walmart had closed within a day of being open.
Open the listings yourself before you act on any of this. That is not a disclaimer — it is the only method that works on a product whose availability changes faster than anyone can write about it.
Prices and stock states were read directly from each retailer’s product page on 10 September 2026. Hardware details, the release date and the box contents come from Nintendo’s own announcement of 8 September 2026. No affiliate links, and no payment was received for any link on this page.