Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to announce a new Wii Zelda game this year, he revealed at a post-E3 session with journalists. But instead of rushing just to have something "new" for gamers, Miyamoto made a conscious decision to let his team in Japan work on coming up with something new for the next Zelda adventure.
"Basically," he said, "what we're doing now is repeated experiments with different styles of gameplay, different level designs, different dungeon designs."
A new Zelda adventure for Wii is "quite far into development," however. Miyamoto hoped to release the new Zelda in 2010, but joked that "it may take a little longer."
Miyamoto also premiered the first piece of artwork for the next Zelda. I wasn't allowed to snap a photo of the art, however, but it featured a tall, strident-looking Link in front of a blazing, fire-encrusted background. A mysterious, spirit-looking character was placed in front of Link and the logo was completely silver.
"We've been sitting down as a team and [talking about] what's the best way to continue this franchise, what can we do with the gamplay to move Zelda forward?" he said.
Part of moving Zelda forward may include supporting MotionPlus. In fact, Miyamoto said it's entirely possible the next Zelda would require the use of MotionPlus. There's a catch in this plan, however.
"The potential for it [Zelda] becoming Wii MotionPlus-only is depending on how well Wii Sports Resort sells," he laughed.
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SayAnything8
Finally i wished he showed us a Trailer or something at E3 because Nintendo's E3 was boring and disappointing
HaseoGUA
Metroid: The other M, was boring?
*Smacks SayAnything8*
Don't make me shove my arm cannon into your mouth XD
nowhere2hide139
new zelda!!!
bezerkerdude
I saw this coming Nintendo brought both Mario and Samus back for another round on the Wii. Why wouldn't they bring link in as well to make the lineup even more stronger? Nintendo is always hush hush about everything so its not even surprising this time. But hey even without the aid of all there heavy hitters they still have a good game line-up, for all who are complaining about nintendos press conference heres a little something for you. It's better than last years and thats one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much this time around, well that and the announcement of Golden Sun DS 6 years and it finally happens. :D
Tyri3l
I'm expecting this one to use Wind Wakers aesthetic and it might be a Four Swords Zelda game to attract the casual audience. Nintendo knows the fans will buy it no matter what but with 50 million wii's in the wild they want to sell to as many as Wii owners as they can and I'm certain Twilight sold at most 10 million units so if they make a Zelda game for everyone like they are with New Super Mario Bros. I think they can reach lot more of their installed base than if they just did another game like Twilight Princess. I completely think the next Zelda Wii game will feature Toon Link.
xmsuxhunter
According to Chris Kohler of Wired.com, "The art pictured Link, as he appeared in 2006’s Twilight Princess..."(http://www.wired. com/gamelife/2009/06/nintendo- next-wii-zelda-will-use-motion plus/)
So it's quite doubtful that they'll use Toon Link in this adventure, but who knows, that could've just been a really cool looking picture and we'll end up with Toon Link anyways. You never know with Nintendo, look at how long they took to make Twilight Princess, and it was an excellent game. I'm not a big fan of waiting, but when it comes to Zelda, the big N always makes it worth the while.
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