U-King-O: Rumored internal codename for a future Nintendo game (Midori)
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I don't want to spend another second in BotW's Hyrule. Reusing that map a third time, or literally reselling those two games that I already own, is the definition of uninteresting to me.
You and others like you should have gotten an upgrade option. But at least they have a excuse there since BotW released for Wii U and Switch simultaneously. But imo, that's not a valid excuse. It should be crossbuy.
I know, im just thinking what we should expect from Nintendo in relation to Zelda at launch day
This. In fact, they probably speed up new games by helping train devs on new hardware. This enhanced BotW was already running in some fashion last Gamescom, so the training exercise is likely complete.
Next your gonna tell me clone/echoes don't take slots away from full characters
Doesn't change that it's some uninteresting nonsense, like Nintendo's version of TLoUP1 or *vomits* Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Shit is like a parody of itself at this point. 30m people or however many played BotW. Everyone who wanted to play that game has already done so and has the capability to do so on their next console.
I just don't think there's an elegant way to have done that for physical buyers which during the Wii U era was the vast majority of Nintendo players. So although a digital upgrade path would've been nice it also would have upset the majority of Wii U owners, which just doesn't seem worth the effort. Much easier to treat everyone the same and call it a day.
I'll go one step further and say the next game needs to not be set in Hyrule at all. I don't need to see the 7th iteration of the same locations from every game since A Link to the Past.
I would agree except that with development times these days, I don't want to wait 12-14 years before returning to Hyrule. I'd say that a non-Hyrule locale would be perfect for a spin-off or 2D entry though.
Best Zelda was that run of like...Links Awakening, Ocarina, Majora, Oracle games, Wind Waker in 5 years or whatever it was. Yeah you got a bombastic Hyrule revisit with Ocarina, but the other 5 games were all their own distinct worlds and it was and amazing breadth of creativity.
That shit is never happening again. We'll get water world forest world mountain world desert world ganon. Shit sucks.
People are almost always talking about first-party developers in this context too, which we can assume are getting access to devkits a good chunk of time before 3P. There was that rumor back around 2020(?) of Nintendo telling their partners to prepare for games for 4K output, so if we assume the Switch Pro was planned and then cancelled, a first-party studio creating a remaster or a build on the current gen and next gen hardware is not at all difficult to believe.
Nin-Tendi-Ooooh!
Nintendo going back and putting all the TotK caves into BotW!
Or maybe...
...what if you could?
Nintendo going back and putting all the TotK caves into BotW!
Or maybe...
...what if you could?
Next game needs a Gerudo Link who was destined to become Ganondorf or some twist like that. And he actually talks, voice and everything.
We only have the old rumor from Gamescom 2023 which talked about a demo of an improved version of BOTW being shown off to developers (same rumor that talked about The Matrix demo being on the system) that talked about
-Targeting the Switch 2 specs
-Game shown running at 4k/60
-Load times were minimalized/erased
Nintendo could just re-release the game on the Switch 2 with a new box and label it as 'Complete Edition' have the Expansion Pass as included with the cart and include a new side story/mode (Zelda side-story) as something new. Then give users with the original Switch cart an upgrade path for like $10-20 to access the new story/mode in it, like what happened with how Sony handled a few of their upgrade path games.
THIS is what I've been saying. Designing a "new world" but it's just the same Hyrule tropes would be so bizarre to me.
Wii U ports sold like gangbusters, may as well resell Switch games again (and Wii U games maybe a third time?)
