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E3 09: Miyamoto Talks New Zelda
Hopes for Reveal in 2010
by Coop
Nintendo has been acting odd in the past few years. Every E3, they seem to forget to announce stuff, and make up for it in the coming days and weeks by slowly leaking information in an entirely un-epic way. Two years ago, a trailer for Smash Bros. was revealed after the show; last year, Nintendo waited a month before showing off the DSi and Punch-Out!!; and this year, in a Q&A after the show, Shigeru Miyamoto announced that work on a new Zelda is in progress, and that he hopes to be able to reveal the title at next year's E3. Not only that, but he brought with him a piece of concept art, depicting a mature (see: late teens) link and a girl in a blue dress.
When pressed for information, he went on to mention that it would likely support the Wii MotionPlus as long as the peripheral is well-accepted and sells admirably. Seeing as Wii Music ended up selling better than most games on the system, the odds of something that's actually good doing well makes sense, which means Zelda will, indeed, use the Wii MotionPlus whenever it is released.
This means, among other things, that we're now 3/10 on our Nintendo E3 predictions. All I need now is for Nintendo to announce a Kojima project and I'm in the 40's. Come on, I've passed classes after having a 40% for the first half of the semester, there are still a few days left in this thing. We can do this!
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Can't fucking wait, why wasn't this at the press conference?
Because they aren't ready to show it yet. That's what they would say, anyway.
And quite frankly, we already have 2 Marios and a Metroid. Zelda would have been overkill, IMO.
After wasting so much time talking about the vitality sensor they needed to show this in action to make up for the fact that no one but moms and pre-teen girls were the target audience for their presser at that point.
LOLtim and I were talking about this yesterday. They are adding in WiiMotion Plus as an after thought and thus currently in the process of FUBARing this game.
zelda > james patterson women's murder club
Two Marios and a Metroid don't equal half a Zelda.
And look who comes craaaaawling back.....
Couldn't stand to be on the outs with me, eh Nintendo? Pulled this little surprise together just to get back into my good graces. Well maybe next time you'll treat me a little better instead of spending all your time and money on those slutty casual gamers. You KNOW they aren't in it for the long haul.
Shh, Shh. Don't cry, you know I love you, baby. It's good to have you back.....
@Raccoonacorn: Because Nintendo is known for FUBARing Zeldas?
If Nintendo had shown this at the press conference instead of Wii Vitality or whatever that thing was... they could have won E3. Seriously. Mario, Mario, Metroid, Mario, ZELDA. The End. Instead they had people openly laughing at them. This should have been at the presser.
Man, there's just nothing to please you people, is there? Instead of celebrating what we have, you complain about things you could simply not care about. And I thought I was a pessimist...
A new Zelda game, I am excited
I think they waited till after to tell us because it is a least a year away and probably more so now we have something to look forward to and something to bitch about
Well J-man. I used to think that way, but then I was visited by the ghosts of consoles past, present, and yet-to-come and now I cherish every game that I play.
On a side note the ghost of future consoles was that ridiculous PS3slim. Go figure........