At E3 2008, Nintendo hinted that the Mario and Zelda teams had reassembled and are hard at work on new titles for the Wii generation. Although that is where the details ended. When the IGN crew sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto this week, however, he elaborated on the situation, and absolutely confirmed that a new Wii Zelda is underway. He also said that there are to be some fundamental changes made to the game.
"The core members of the Zelda team have for a very long time now been focused on Zelda games, and continue to focus on Zelda games, so they are hard at work and working away," Miyamoto said. "And then, of course, we have the DS Zelda team as well, so even there we're having some switching of people in and out where the DS team is mixing in with the Wii team and working on the Wii version."
Eiji Aonuma showed a brief snippet of an experimentation the Zelda team conducted back at GDC 2007. It was Twilight Princess running in the first-person view. When IGN asked Miyamoto if such a fundamental change could await players of the Wii's next Zelda title he replied, "I don't necessarily think it will change that drastically, but I think that Zelda is a franchise that does need some big new unique ideas."
The IGN team then asked Miyamoto about some other key titles that may be in the works, namely a new Pikmin title for Wii, a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy and a DS sequel to New Super Mario Bros. "The Pikmin team is, of course, still there a
16/07/2008
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