Nintendo will finally make one other {hardware} platform. And there’ll finally be one other Zelda sport for it. Neither are 100% confirmed, in fact, however each are a number of the most secure bets anybody may make. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has now mentioned, at a excessive stage, what Nintendo’s designers take into consideration when tackling new {hardware}.
Talking to Polygon, Aonuma–who has labored on the Zelda sequence for many years and has been a part of the crew throughout a number of console transitions–laid out a number of the areas that Nintendo focuses on.
He mentioned Nintendo’s designers take into consideration issues like, “‘What can we try this’s new? ‘What’s going to we be capable of do?’ ‘What sort of new themes will we be capable of discover?'”
“And so I believe, moderately than specializing in the previous, after we’ve modified from one console to a different, it is greater than a sense of claiming goodbye. It is a feeling of pleasure. It is about what would be the new issues that we’ll be capable of do,” he mentioned.
Additionally within the interview, Aonuma mentioned he thinks it is a “miracle of types” that the Zelda sequence has remained ongoing and profitable after so a few years. “That is not one thing that I credit score myself with, however as a substitute with being surrounded by a crew of actually gifted folks. Attending to work with them and discussing our concepts concerning the sport is one thing that has been answerable for the continuance of the sequence,” he mentioned.
Aonuma did not talk about any specifics about no matter Zelda sport may be coming subsequent, however he remarked, “I am excited concerning the modifications that we’ll be capable of accomplish collectively.”
Earlier than this, Aonuma hinted that the way forward for the mainline Zelda sequence doesn’t contain conventional linear Zelda adventures of outdated coming again any time quickly.
“It is attention-grabbing once I hear folks say [they prefer the older games] as a result of I’m questioning, ‘Why do you need to return to a sort of sport the place you are extra restricted or extra restricted within the varieties of issues or methods you’ll be able to play?'” Aonuma mentioned within the interview. “I do perceive that want that we now have for nostalgia, and so I may also perceive it from that facet.”
The newest entry in the principle sequence, Tears of the Kingdom, has bought more than 19.5 million copies worldwide. Its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, shifted more than 31 million copies. Each had been additionally adored critically, with Tears of the Kingdom heralded by GameSpot as top-of-the-line Swap exclusives of 2023.
Nintendo has reportedly already despatched “improvement kits” for the Swap 2 to some builders to allow them to start constructing video games with it, and the console is reportedly set to launch to the general public in 2024. Formally, nevertheless, Nintendo isn’t confirming the existence of any new {hardware}, apart from stating {that a} new console will launch by the 12 months 2100.
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