Zelda 3DS: Speculation

[S.Peelman]

UncleScrooge said:
The one million dollar question is: Do handheld Zelda games have their own development team inside Nintendo? I know all internal Zelda games are made by Aonuma's EAD group but I think it is split up into two teams, one making the handheld games and one making the console ones with developers switching between both strings at different points in time.

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That is true.

With only two exceptions (the Oracle games and Minish Cap), the handheld Zelda's are made by the same team as the console Zelda's and simultaneously. If I understood it right, the amount of people working on a title depends on the stage of development. If the need is high on the console title, most people will work in that 'sub-team'.

This information is hear-say though .

 

OT: I think the 3DS title will be similar to OoT3D, ditching the DS interface style in favor of the traditional console style. It will have it's own look though, depending on when the game will take place in the timeline probably.