Nintendo Okie

There was, among many other surprises, a complete lack of anything Zelda at E3 from Nintendo.  I didn’t expect a release date for a new Zelda game, but I expected them to at least talk about something they were working on.  We didn’t get even the slightest peep from any Nintendo exec as to what the company is doing with the Zelda franchise.  That had a lot of people scratching their heads.

IGN decided to get to the bottom of the situation and ask about the franchise.  Miyamoto was, as he’s been lately, surprisingly candid and more or less spilled the beans as to what Nintendo is thinking as a company.

“We haven’t quite decided yet, whether we’re going to do A Link to the Past, because there’s also the possibility of doing a remake of Majora’s Mask,” Miyamoto told me in an interview at E3 last week. “This is something we’ve certainly been talking about and doing a little bit of experimenting with, to figure out which way we’re going to go.

We have so many goals right now.  We’re always looking at expanding our audience and giving people the opportunity to get their hands on 3DS and see what kind of fun gaming experiences they can have. And now, we’re also tasked with pushing the Wii U. So we have lots of good opportunities in terms of thinking about which Zelda game is going to be best for which purpose.”

Now the proper answer is please, Nintendo, do both.  However if I had to choose, I would prefer something along the lines of A Link to the Past as that’s my favorite Zelda game of all time.  That is if those were my only two options.  If given a third choice I would ask them to create a brand new Zelda adventure, from the ground up, that utilizes the 3D aspects of the 3DS and then to create a gorgeous, sprite-based, top-down Zelda to be ready for the eShop and the Wii U launch.