E3 2008: Miyamoto Says New Zelda for Wii Progressing
Zelda Wii team exploring big and unique ideas.
by Matt Casamassina

July 15, 2008 - No big surprise. At E3 2008, Nintendo confirmed (very
vaguely) that the Mario and Zelda teams had reassembled, but offered
no further details. But when we sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto this
week, he elaborated on situation, absolutely confirmed that a new Wii
Zelda is underway, and suggested that it will see some fundamental
changes.

"The Zelda team in particular always works on Zelda titles. 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."

At GDC 2007, Eiji Aonuma gave a presentation on The Legend of Zelda:
Twilight Princess. At that time, he showed a brief snippet of an
experimentation the Zelda team conducted -- it was Twilight Princess
running in the first-person view. We asked Miyamoto if such a
fundamental change could await players of Wii's next Zelda adventure.

"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," he said. "And so the team right now is very focused on trying
to find those ideas."

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