Aonuma: There Is No Planned The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom DLC

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Eiji Aonuma revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom is likely not to ever have any DLC, and this is for good reason.

Eiji Aonuma was interviewed by Japanese newspaper Famitsu about the game. As translated by Video Games Chronicle, this is what he said:

“At this time, we are not planning to release additional content. We feel like we have already fully explored and exhausted the gameplay possibilities in this world.

Initially, the reason we decided to develop a sequel was because we believed there was still value in experiencing new gameplay within that particular Hyrule.

If in the future we find a compelling reason, we may revisit that world once again. Whether it’s another sequel or an entirely new title, I believe the next game will offer a completely new experience. I hope you’ll look forward to it.”

To put this in perspective, the website How Long To Beat rates The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom main story playtime at 59 hours, only slight above The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s 50 hours. However, a completionist run of rates The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom puts the game at 230 hours, considerably above  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s 190 hours.

If the reason The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild stopped at two DLC packs was for Nintendo to put their ideas over to the sequel The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom, then it makes sense that Nintendo would no longer hold back and put in as many ideas as they had onto this second game.

Nintendo remains reticent to sell DLC. Their current strategy is to sell what they call expansion passes. These amount to a bundle of all the planned DLC for a single game, such as Splatoon 3 or Mario Kart 8. Said DLC is planned