Nintendo is releasing the Zelda: Breath of the Wild soundtrack on vinyl

Nintendo has announced plans to release the soundtrack from 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on vinyl.

This lovely looking OST release is set to arrive in June of 2026. As for why it’s been announced so far in advance I’m unsure, but it’s nice to see it all the same. Also, what took them so long? The game came out nine years ago.

The soundtrack, created in partnership with Laced Records, will be available in both a double vinyl edition, or an eight-LP box set featuring a mammoth 130 tracks — this one sure does look nice, with an awesome blue and gold splatter effect on each disc. All of the tracks are said to have been remastered for the vinyl format too.

The soundtrack has been available in Japan on CD for quite some time, and of course is also available to NSO members via the Nintendo Music app — which has been with us for a roughly a year at this point.

Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen, speaking to Variety, highlighted how the CD is still something of a prominent format for videogame soundtracks in Japan, and this new move to introduce a vinyl release is them “trying to gage and understand what is the demand for physical soundtracks” in other markets. “Part of this is also simply an interest in trying to bring video game music to a broader audience, and it’s part of a few steps that we’ve taken“.

Trinen added that Nintendo are “really trying to broaden exposure” to their “overall very, very large music library, but also then trying to find different ways to deliver it to different fans of music“.

The Breath of the Wild vinyl soundtrack is up for preorder now. The double vinyl version should cost around $50, with the bigger eight disc version costing closer to $200. Tears of the Kingdom next?