BODY: Hyrule's most-mythologized 3D adventure is back on the front page of Nintendo's Japanese site — and this time it arrives with a shopping cart attached.
Nintendo Japan has posted a shōkai eizō (紹介映像), its house term for a full overview trailer, for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Nintendo Switch 2. The video went up with a cluster of supporting links that tell you more than the footage does: a dedicated Switch 2 software page on nintendo.com/jp, a Nintendo Store Japan product listing with its own item number, and the general Switch 2 hardware hub.
That combination matters. Nintendo has two very different ways of putting an N64 classic in front of players: fold it into the Nintendo Classics library that ships with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription, or sell it as a standalone product. A store listing with an item code points firmly at the second route — a purchasable release rather than a subscription drop.
The title itself needs no introduction. Released for the Nintendo 64 in 1998, Ocarina of Time invented much of the grammar of 3D action-adventure games: Z-targeting, context-sensitive buttons, a day-night world you could ride across on horseback. It has been reissued on GameCube, 3DS, and Wii U, and remains the benchmark that every subsequent Zelda gets measured against — including Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, which deliberately broke many of its rules.
An overview trailer rather than a teaser is itself a signal. Nintendo typically saves the shōkai eizō format for the window immediately around a release, when the goal shifts from building anticipation to explaining what you actually get.
The insider take
Watch the Hatena Bookmark comment thread, not the trailer, if you want the Japanese read on this. Japanese users who bookmark a Nintendo trailer are rarely discussing nostalgia — they are arguing about delivery model and price, and whether a classic should sit behind the Expansion Pack subscription or be bought outright and owned. That tension has been building since Nintendo Classics launched, and Ocarina is the most emotionally loaded test case possible: it is the game that Japanese players of a certain age associate with the N64 era itself. Expect the discussion domestically to be less "is this good" and more "what does Nintendo's pricing here mean for the next twenty N64 reissues."
Originally reported by はてなブックマーク (Japanese).