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DonFerrari on 19 December 2017

Very good, then to newer and better Zeldas in the future.



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caffeinade on 19 December 2017
Jumpin said:
Mar1217 said:
To be honest, I think even in the "worst case" scenario, they'll split their team in 2. One's doing the DLC stuff to keep BOTW in our mind (A team kept to a minimal staff with occasional supervision from Aonuma) and the other bigger part of the team with Aonuma as chief supervisor creating the next game or sequel to BOTW.

That wouldn’t occur. DLC design uses a different skill set. They would be much more script-focused than hard code focused. Also the team would be people who specialize on iterative and new feature releases rather than building a project from Concept/Pre-Alpha to launch. It’s not likely any dev resources would be taken from the main staff, only QA, production, and perhaps some art resources; a UI artist, character animator, and maybe some 3D character modellers for any new monster/character assets, 2-3 to do the clothing, and environmental artists for dungeon design. They wouldn’t necessarily fill these from the main dev team either, unless they aren’t required on the main sequel project yet; they would hand these tasks off to new artists still working their way up.

Nintendo recently consolidated their development teams.
I wonder if they can convert what is currently their handheld Zelda team into the expansion team.

Both teams are probably within a few hundred meters anyway, so they should be able to shift people around with ease.



curl-6 on 21 December 2017

https://gonintendo.com/stories/298409-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-is-officially-content-complete-no-more

No more DLC coming for Breath of the Wild.

Good thing IMHO; time to focus entirely on the next game.

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PAOerfulone on 21 December 2017

Dang, that's a shame.
I was actually looking forward to more content and DLC packs for Breath of the Wild. Would've been a great way to keep supporting the game and keep it feeling new and fresh throughout the Switch's life cycle. Oh well.



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Pavolink on 22 December 2017

So, I dream about the next Zelda last night. I saw screenshoots.

Basically 2 of them. Many could be dissapointed.

Same artstyle as BotW, but due to power of the Switch, better resolution and effects.

The first one was a big green and red building with volcano's particles all around. Nothing more.

The second one was more interesting. It has Link over the shoulders of what looked like a knight/soldier whiout his helmet. It was like the fina strike from TP mixed with the downward trust from Zelda 2.



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Keybladewielder on 22 December 2017

I hope the next Zelda is darker, like Majora's Mask, maybe with some Lovecraftian influence..



Miyamotoo on 22 December 2017
curl-6 said:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/298409-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-is-officially-content-complete-no-more

No more DLC coming for Breath of the Wild.

Good thing IMHO; time to focus entirely on the next game.

Well now we can definitely say what they said (in OP) is about next Zelda game.

 

 

Pavolink said: 

So, I dream about the next Zelda last night. I saw screenshoots.

Basically 2 of them. Many could be dissapointed.

Same artstyle as BotW, but due to power of the Switch, better resolution and effects.

The first one was a big green and red building with volcano's particles all around. Nothing more.

The second one was more interesting. It has Link over the shoulders of what looked like a knight/soldier whiout his helmet. It was like the fina strike from TP mixed with the downward trust from Zelda 2.

I definitely wouldn't be disappointed with that, actualy I hope they will do that and that we will have new 3D Zelda in 2019/2020.



Technarchy on 22 December 2017
curl-6 said:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/298409-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-is-officially-content-complete-no-more

No more DLC coming for Breath of the Wild.

Good thing IMHO; time to focus entirely on the next game.

Probably better that way. Most of the good ideas can be put into a new game, along with using a new engine and API's for all around better performance.



Miyamotoo on 22 December 2017
Technarchy said:
curl-6 said:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/298409-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-is-officially-content-complete-no-more

No more DLC coming for Breath of the Wild.

Good thing IMHO; time to focus entirely on the next game.

Probably better that way. Most of the good ideas can be put into a new game, along with using a new engine and API's for all around better performance.

I am not so sure they will use new engine for next Zelda, they can easily use same slightly modified Zelda BotW engine.



curl-6 on 22 December 2017
Miyamotoo said:
Technarchy said:

Probably better that way. Most of the good ideas can be put into a new game, along with using a new engine and API's for all around better performance.

I am not so sure they will use new engine for next Zelda, they can easily use same slightly modified Zelda BotW engine.

Yeah I suspect we'll see the same engine, just upgraded and with the benefit of the Switch rather than Wii U being the baseline hardware. The existing engine has already shown great flexibility and making a new one would take a lot of unnecessary time and money.

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