TheMisterManGuy said:
Eiji Aounuma has expressed that Nintendo had been pushing him to do something new for a while now, and said that he has one idea in mind involving a game about the life of a thief. While I doubt it's in development at the moment, there's nothing stopping them from taking a break from Zelda in the future.
They brought L.A. Noir to the Switch, and are bringing The Outer Worlds to it as well. Most publishers will go where the money is, and if the Switch continues its momentum, third parties would be outright fools not to bring something to it. The DS showed this, Even the Wii, which some people like to cite as a counter-argument, still had a lot of publishers releasing games for it. Granted, a lot of it was shovelware, but there were decent games thrown in to balance it out too. |
This seems more like Nintendo wants to remove him from Zelda’s development and give the reins to someone else like Fujibayashi who was directing the production of BotW.