Nintendo will finally make one other {hardware} platform. And there’ll finally be one other Zelda sport for it. Neither are 100% confirmed, after all, however each are among the most secure bets anybody may make. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has now mentioned, at a excessive degree, what Nintendo’s designers take into consideration when tackling new {hardware}.
Chatting with Polygon, Aonuma–who has labored on the Zelda collection for many years and has been a part of the staff throughout a number of console transitions–laid out among the areas that Nintendo focuses on.
He stated Nintendo’s designers take into consideration issues like, “‘What can we do this’s new? ‘What will we be capable of do?’ ‘What type of new themes will we be capable of discover?'”
“And so I feel, slightly than specializing in the previous, once we’ve modified from one console to a different, it is greater than a sense of claiming goodbye. It’s a sense of pleasure. It’s about what would be the new issues that we’ll be capable of do,” he stated.
Additionally within the interview, Aonuma stated he thinks it is a “miracle of kinds” that the Zelda collection 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 staff of actually proficient folks. Attending to work with them and discussing our concepts concerning the sport is one thing that has been liable for the continuance of the collection,” he stated.
Aonuma did not talk about any specifics about no matter Zelda sport could 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 collection doesn’t contain conventional linear Zelda adventures of previous coming again any time quickly.
“It’s fascinating after I hear folks say [they prefer the older games] as a result of I’m questioning, ‘Why do you wish 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 stated within the interview. “I do perceive that want that we have now for nostalgia, and so I also can perceive it from that side.”
The most recent entry in the principle collection, 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 have been additionally adored critically, with Tears of the Kingdom heralded by GameSpot as probably the greatest Swap exclusives of 2023.
Nintendo has reportedly already despatched “growth 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 is just not 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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