Zelda: Breath of the Wild discussion thread

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curl-6 said:

Miyamotoo said:

After Splatoon and Zelda, now we know they will do something totally different with Mario also. It become very obvious that there change of generations in Nintendo currently, new young developers with fresh and different perspective coming at stage while old ones go retirement.

It's looking encouraging likely that they're finally starting to learn to take risks again. Honestly, the retirement of the old guard at Nintendo and the rise of the next generation of young devs needs to happen ASAP. Splatoon shows the promise of Nintendo's up and coming, but a lot about the Wii U also speaks to how out of touch the old guys have become. Hopefully Breath of the Wild and Splatoon are indicative of Nintendo's direction moving forward.

Well I hope you don't include Aonuma and Sakurai (I know he technically doesn't work for Nintendo but you know what I mean :P) in that old guard since they clearly haven't lost their touch.  I do think Miyamoto withdrawing to a more hands-off management/oversight position is for the best.  He's clearly not looking to create any more grandiose hallmark games.  Also, I think other games this gen show some good ideas Nintendo had but haven't pushed to their most extreme.  Hyrule Warriors was a brilliant mash up, Nintendo should do more.  Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101 were good partnership projects, they should do more of those.  And I think the Xenoblade series has shown immense potential and needs to be better promoted moving forward.  

But I think that Mario Kart 8 and Smash 4 show Nintendo can still make great games through iterative refinement and evolution.  I think a combination of that, reimagining, new IPs, partnerships, and pushing younger franchises are the areas they need to advance moving forward.