Miyamoto and Aonuma talk about next Zelda game

Gaming site IGN caught up with Twilight Princess Director Eiji Aonuma and Nintendo Producer Shigeru Miyamoto a while ago at E3 and when you have the two at hand, you shouldn’t let anyone go without asking a Zelda-related question – be it related to the current video game title on Wii or even about future iterations.

IGN went for the second question and received quite a few interesting answers from the two. According to Miyamoto, there is a high possibility that a new Zelda game will be released on the Wii because the console has a lot of potential and there are many areas that they haven’t fully explored yet. The producer added,

It’s really hard to say because we’ve never had a Zelda that’s appeared so early in the life cycle of the system, so it’s definitely possible that there would be another Zelda on Wii. Of course, the challenge is that typically a Zelda game is something that takes three years to develop, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

While Director Aonuma agreed with Miyamoto’s statements, he was a bit more vague regarding future projects. He added that it is true their team has some ideas in the works but none of them have been approved yet. Aonuma also said that they are still very much in the planning process.

Eiji Aonuma also brought up the DS title Phantom Hourglass, “The Phantom Hourglass has been released in Japan and reception has been very, very positive. We’ve actually been able to receive feedback from the users and we’ll definitely take all of those comments into consideration when creating the next Zelda, whether it be for Wii or DS”.

Via IGN

Gaming site IGN caught up with Twilight Princess Director Eiji Aonuma and Nintendo Producer Shigeru Miyamoto a while ago at E3 and when you have the two at hand, you shouldn’t let anyone go without asking a Zelda-related question – be it related to the current video game title on Wii or even about future iterations.

IGN went for the second question and received quite a few interesting answers from the two. According to Miyamoto, there is a high possibility that a new Zelda game will be released on the Wii because the console has a lot of potential and there are many areas that they haven’t fully explored yet. The producer added,

It’s really hard to say because we’ve never had a Zelda that’s appeared so early in the life cycle of the system, so it’s definitely possible that there would be another Zelda on Wii. Of course, the challenge is that typically a Zelda game is something that takes three years to develop, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

While Director Aonuma agreed with Miyamoto’s statements, he was a bit more vague regarding future projects. He added that it is true their team has some ideas in the works but none of them have been approved yet. Aonuma also said that they are still very much in the planning process.

Eiji Aonuma also brought up the DS title Phantom Hourglass, “The Phantom Hourglass has been released in Japan and reception has been very, very positive. We’ve actually been able to receive feedback from the users and we’ll definitely take all of those comments into consideration when creating the next Zelda, whether it be for Wii or DS”.

Via IGN