BODY: If you missed the first wave, the Triforce has smiled on you again. Rakuten Books has quietly reopened pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition — the green-and-gold limited console that sold out within minutes of its announcement.
The anniversary hardware is a Japanese-language, domestic-only unit priced at ¥62,980, and it ships on October 29, 2026. Alongside the standalone console, Rakuten Books is also listing a bundle that pairs the system with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo's full Switch 2 remake of the 1998 N64 landmark. That game doesn't arrive until November 5 — a week after the console — so the bundle is effectively a staggered two-part delivery rather than a box set.
Worth knowing before you click: the Ocarina remake is not included with the Anniversary Edition console itself. It's sold separately at ¥7,980 digital or ¥8,980 for the physical package, which means the Rakuten bundle is a retailer-assembled pairing, not a Nintendo SKU. The remake adds ZELDA NOTES support and amiibo compatibility to the original's Hyrule.
Two matching accessories launch the same day as the console: a special-design Pro Controller at ¥12,980 and a Zelda-themed carrying case at ¥3,980. Both have been just as scarce as the hardware.
GAME Watch notes what every Japanese shopper already assumes — stock figures update in real time, and reopened listings like this one tend to vanish in minutes rather than hours.
The insider take
The phrase doing the heavy lifting here is 日本語・国内専用 — "Japanese-language, domestic-only." Nintendo introduced that cheaper region-locked Switch 2 variant specifically to blunt the resale pipeline that drains Japanese stock toward overseas buyers, and anniversary hardware is exactly the kind of product that pipeline targets. Rakuten Books is also a telling venue: it's a bookstore, not a game shop, and Japanese shoppers have learned to treat non-obvious retailers — booksellers, convenience-store chains, electronics outlets' web arms — as the real restock channels once Amazon and My Nintendo Store dry up. Locals keep multiple tabs open for precisely this reason.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).