I really don’t get why you think a 15 year old tech demo is what they will use as the base of the game.

Reusing the engine/assets from BotW/TotK makes 100000% more sense and would save time/money.

BoTW/ToTK is honestly probably the inferior engine, whatever this was they almost definitely were not running it on stock Wii U hardware. I think part of the reason they changed to the BoTW more cartoony look was because the above wasn't possible on the Wii U in an actual playable game situation.

The original BoTW demo they showed too looked better than the final game as well, I think they had to downgrade again from that to get it running on a Wii U with the scale of environments the game demanded. Likely they had some kind of Wii U dev kit model that was significantly more powerful than the final hardware. 

Or tech demos just don’t have any actual bearing on what games they will release. Look at the early Zelda & Mario tech demos for GameCube that were nothing like the games we ended up getting, Wind Waker & Sunshine.

I think what he means by lazy is it can’t just be an HD port/remaster. That would still likely sell a few million (looking at previous remasters on 3DS/Wii U/Switch) but a built from the ground up, modernized remake could be a major 15+ million seller.

Yeah but isn’t FF7 an outlier? Nobody is expecting them to turn OoT into a trilogy.

I didn’t dive too deep into looking it up but a quick google search says that each of the Resident Evil remakes took 3-4 years to develop.

TotK released in May 2023 so assuming the OoT remake started development roughly once ToTK wrapped up then that would give it 3-4 years of development as well.

edit: looks like MGS 3 remake also took about 4 years

@Soundwave mentioned this also, but they could also reuse the engine for an Ocarina of Time remake to also remake the other games in the Child Timeline - Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess. That could give Nintendo their own Remake trilogy of sorts and they could release at different points of the Switch 2's life cycle with Ocarina of Time being released this year towards the beginning of Switch 2's life, Majora's Mask coming around 2029-2030 towards the middle, and finally Twilight Princess in 2033-2034 right at the end, and perhaps even be a Switch 3 with upgraded bells and whistles including higher frame rate and pixel count - Ala Metroid Prime 4.

Would certainly go a long way towards alleviating the wait for the next Open World game, and assuming the movie is a success - sequels could be developed and released around the same time as the other remakes and then the next open world game releases somewhere in there.

Assuming this is true, if Nintendo plays their cards right, the Switch 2 generation could raise the popularity and appeal of the Zelda franchise to a whole new level! Even further beyond the levels that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom took the series!

@Soundwave mentioned this also, but they could also reuse the engine for an Ocarina of Time remake to also remake the other games in the Child Timeline - Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess. That could give Nintendo their own Remake trilogy of sorts and they could release at different points of the Switch 2's life cycle with Ocarina of Time being released this year towards the beginning of Switch 2's life, Majora's Mask coming around 2029-2030 towards the middle, and finally Twilight Princess in 2033-2034 right at the end, and perhaps even be a Switch 3 with upgraded bells and whistles including higher frame rate and pixel count - Ala Metroid Prime 4.

Would certainly go a long way towards alleviating the wait for the next Open World game, and assuming the movie is a success - sequels could be developed and released around the same time as the other remakes and then the next open world game releases somewhere in there.

Assuming this is true, if Nintendo plays their cards right, the Switch 2 generation could raise the popularity and appeal of the Zelda franchise to a whole new level! Even further beyond the levels that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom took the series!

I don't think they need new engine, BotW/TotK engine is more than capable of doing all they need for remakes, and even if they go with stylized realism (which I think they will most likely do), I don't think it's much of a problem to add whatever they need in existing engine to accommodate for the needs of that style.