Nintendo isn’t scared of Grand Theft Auto VI. While everyone else is avoiding Rockstar’s next game, the Ocarina of Time remake is going right up against it.

The company held a 30-minute showcase this morning focused entirely on its Legend of Zelda franchise, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. We got a title for the live-action movie, a series of orchestral concerts, and a very glittery special edition of the Switch 2. But most of the runtime was dedicated to the upcoming Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time. There was a new trailer and a lengthy gameplay video that showed how Nintendo is approaching this remake, which includes more realistic graphics and new features like a free camera. But perhaps the most notable detail is when the game launches: November 5th.

Grand Theft Auto VI, if you’re unaware, launches on November 19th. It’s a date that has caused a seismic shift in the video game release calendar as virtually every major publisher has either delayed games or moved their release dates up in order to avoid GTA and the all-encompassing vacuum it creates. September just began, and already we’ve had launches like Star Wars Zero Company, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with heavy hitters like Marvel’s Wolverine, Control Resonant, and a remastered Witcher 3 coming later in the month.

It’s a similar situation to the surprise launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong last year, where indie games jumped out of the way of its release. But GTA VI exists on a much larger scale. With few exceptions — including a pair of brave indies — publishers have decided that it’s better to be caught in a glut of releases in September than go up against GTA VI later in the year. In fact, Ocarina of Time is the only other major release that isn’t a port and is currently slated for November.

Of course, it’s not really all that surprising that Nintendo isn’t afraid of competing with GTA VI. In some ways, the games aren’t competing directly at all; Ocarina of Time will be a Switch 2 exclusive, while GTA is coming to the Xbox and PS5. But there’s more to it than that. Zelda and GTA will still be fighting over cultural mindshare, which is something that both Nintendo and Rockstar have become adept at cultivating. And they’ve both done it largely the same way: by ignoring what everyone else is doing.