Nintendo and UK label Laced Records are pressing “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” score to vinyl for the first time, with the bulk of remaining pre-orders shipping next month as part of the franchise’s 40th-anniversary celebration.

Key Points

• The release comes in two formats: a 2-LP set with 34 tracks at $49.99, and an 8-LP box set with 130 newly remastered tracks at $194.99.
• Nintendo says it’s one of the first major Nintendo game soundtracks made available on vinyl outside of Japan.
• The 8-LP set arrives in a rigid dual slipcase with blue-and-gold splatter vinyl and archival artwork from the game’s original development team, with discs sequenced thematically around exploration, Divine Beast battles, and shrine puzzles.
• Bill Trinen of Nintendo of America said the project reflects “an interest in trying to bring video game music to a broader audience.”
• The timing lines up with the Legend of Zelda franchise’s 40th-anniversary celebration, which officially begins on September 4, 2026 — 40 years after the original game launched in Japan in February 1986.

Laced Records opened pre-orders for both editions back in October 2025, and the first wave of copies began shipping around the initial June 19 on-sale date. But demand outpaced early stock — the deluxe box set is currently listed as sold out on Laced Records’ own site — and the remaining backlog, including new pre-order batches, is now scheduled to ship in September, putting fresh copies in mailboxes right around the anniversary’s official kickoff.

The soundtrack itself, composed by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai, and Soshi Abe, was one of the more quietly radical parts of “Breath of the Wild” when the game launched in 2017 — long stretches of ambient piano and near-silence stood in for the bombastic orchestral scores that had defined the series for three decades. Pressing nearly four hours of that music across eight LPs, with individual sides built around specific in-game moments rather than a simple track-order dump, is an unusually deliberate format for a video game vinyl release.

For Nintendo, which has largely kept its soundtrack catalog locked to Japan-only physical releases and digital storefronts, opening the vinyl door for one of its most acclaimed scores signals there may be more crossover releases to come as the Zelda anniversary campaign continues through the rest of 2026.

It’s also a notable shift for a company that has historically treated its back catalog cautiously outside its home market. Import copies of Japanese Zelda vinyl and CD box sets have circulated among collectors for years, often at steep resale markups, so a widely available Western pressing — sold directly through Nintendo’s own online store alongside Laced’s site — closes a gap that soundtrack collectors have complained about for the better part of a decade.