Nintendo's New Zelda Game, Tears of the Kingdom, Is Set to Debut May 12

Nintendo announced the title for the next highly anticipated game in one of its bestselling franchises -- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It will be available May 12. From a report: The Zelda series, originally created by Nintendo former general manager Shigeru Miyamoto, has long been iconic among gaming fans worldwide and in the US, the Japanese company's largest market. The last title in the series, Breath of the Wild, was released in tandem with the Switch's debut in March 2017. The game helped drive the gadget's launch sales and so far has sold more than 27 million copies. Earlier this year Nintendo delayed the release of the next installment in the Zelda series to 2023, sending its shares tumbling. The news was the highlight of a 45-minute video presentation to tease Nintendo's upcoming titles this fall and into next year. Other announcements included Fire Emblem: Engage, Octopath Traveler 2 and Pikmin 4, which will be released in 2023. The Super Mario Bros. movie, starring Chris Pratt as the voice of the iconic Italian plumber, will be coming in the Spring, Miyamoto announced.

just a title reveal

[GoTeam]

There was a little game-play footage, but not much. They're still holding back a lot of information about the game. Not a bad marketing approach, I suppose.

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[BigZee]

I'm looking forward to the main 'dramatic' (I'm not sure of the best term here) trailer. The one for BotW was brilliant and was more like a trailer for an epic new anime film.

Once again

[rsilvergun]

the dedicated Urban Championship fans have been left disappointed. Curse you Nintendo!

Wow

[kamapuaa]

I hope Zelda 15 is as good as Mario 22! Excited about Pikmin 4! Hope Pokemon 19 is coming soon!

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure Nintendo will care about your sarcasm as they, once again, cry all the way to the bank.

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[bussdriver]

Nintendo has more innovation and creativity in a franchise release than most new version 1 games. They also create innovative new products; have you seen labo or ring fit adventure or those odd real world mario karts?

They could simply port old games forever and they rarely do HD remasters; they dislike easy money.

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[martin_dk]

There is no way you have played Breath of the Wild. Sure, make fun of the incredible version numbers. But you should play BotW and just be a happier person.

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[muh_freeze_peach]

Breath of the Wild is just a rehashing of common open-world mechanics found in many other games. It is not special, other than the Zelda branding.

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[Noobsa44]

Mechanically speaking, I agree, it made me think a lot of Just Cause 3 with the flying squirrel elements. However, there is restraint and design that makes the game unusually well made.

The most obvious example of restraint is that they didn't include a hookshot, which forces the players to act in certain typical ways. This is what leads to design. If you travel left around a hill, right around a hill or climb the hill, your perspective will be different and thus the thing that will catch your eye will va

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[muh_freeze_peach]

Overrated compilation of borrowed mechanics, with repetitive encounters, uninspired story and no character lore. But it says Zelda on it!

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[BigZee]

You may be right but Nintendo have done it so well. After playing BotW, I played Horizon zero dawn. This is an excellent game with a pretty good story and some stunning visuals. However, you take away the visuals and BoTW is a bit better in almost every respect.

It's been too long

[DigitAl56K]

I've been waiting the entire pandemic for the sequel to BOTW -- such a great game! But then what will there be too look forward to once I've finished TOTK?

Other things I'd like to hear about from Nintendo:
- Higher powered Switch for better resolution/frame rate/draw distance
- Joycons with hall effect sensors. Seriously, I must have swapped the parts in our joycons at least a dozen times already. New ones still cost $80 per pair, and have the same problems. Unbelievable.

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[vux984]

The trend right now seems to be to make the switch less expensive and better as a portable (better battery life).

That argues against making it more powerful on both counts.

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[DigitAl56K]

Well, the 2019 Switch update already added over 50% to the battery life. It might still be possible to release with upgraded hardware and have it operate with similar performance/power draw as the current gen in handheld mode and then clocked higher with more demanding engine settings when docked/plugged in.

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[GoTeam]

and a port of Wind Waker & Twilight Princess for the switch... but I'm just being greedy...

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[jacks smirking reven]

It's amazing that Nintendo in some ways is allergic to money considering how many more Switch's they've sold in comparison to Wii-U

Like they already did the HD remasters for both those games. Port it to Switch, charge $35 and watch the sales roll in.

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[BigZee]

As someone who plays the switch mainly at home connected to a 4k TV, I do agree that we need a better performing switch. I'm sure that Nintendo could knock something together but then they have to deal with controls for performance/quality settings that they've not needed so far. The other issue for Nintendo will be to keep a higher powered switch portable still with enough battery life. I'm almost certain that a switch pro is not on the cards and that when we do get something new, it will be a new console,

Tears

[Sigma 7]

So the next Zelda game is Tears of the Kingdom, and therefore it's going to be torn apart. Perhaps it's about time, because the kingdom was unified for a long time, and that's starting to be a little cliche when it falls apart just from some overpowered baddie. Maybe an evil chancellor could help tear the kindgom apart by acting in a way that causes internal discord, as opposed to just tricking external groups to going into isolation.

 

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[GoTeam]

Spirit Tracks style?

What's in a name?

[dohzer]

I hope they put a bad word in front of the boss' name to highlight how very, very, extremely bad he is. They should call him something like "Very Horible Ganondorf", or "Calamity Ganon" or something. Hopefully Nintendo have a creative genius that can come up with something like that.

GLWT

[drinkypoo]

The economy is in the shitter so it's not going to sell any consoles.

Maybe someday Nintendo will start selling its software on other platforms, and I'll care about them again.

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[Merk42]

So which is it? The economy is too shitty for you to buy it and a Switch or nothing will?

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[drinkypoo]

Your sentence didn't work out there, sport.

The economy is too shitty for most people to buy a console for one game.

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[Merk42]

Yeah Nintendo won't sell any copies to the 100 Million+ people that already own a Switch. Also the economy, and peoples budgets, will be exactly the same 8 months from now when the game comes out.
Nintendo is doomed!

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[drinkypoo]

Seen a lot of people selling their switches lately, literally saying they need the money...

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[Merk42]

Yes, the economy in the US is bad, and will always be bad, therefore a Japanese company that's been around for more than a century should not produce anything and just close up shop.

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[Gibgezr]

The Switch is the best handheld game device I've owned, and it's only competition is the Steam Deck...which is more expensive and harder to get, as well as being bulkier/heavier. I'm not knocking Steam Decks, they are cool, they are more powerful, but the display on the new Switches is better as well.
The docking and removable/replaceable joy-cons are nice too, although the built-in Steam Deck thumbsticks are very high quality (but wait until they eventually wear out).
I have literally re-purchased multiple g

Why would they make ANOTHER SMB movie?

[sabbede]

What moron thought they could top the 1993 Hoskins-Leguizamo-Hopper masterwork, "Super Mario Brothers"? As much as I like Pratt, going by awards alone he can't even be mentioned in the same breath as Oscar-winning powerhouses like Hoskins or Hopper.

They might as well be remaking Casablanca with Shia LeBeouf and a Kardashian.