Zelda Boss Is Excited About Next Nintendo Console And What "New" Things It Can Do
«It's a feeling of excitement. It's about what will be the new things that we'll be able to do.»
By Eddie Makuch on
Nintendo will eventually make another hardware platform. And there will eventually be another Zelda game for it. Neither are 100% confirmed, of course, but both are some of the safest bets anyone could make. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has now discussed, at a high level, what Nintendo's designers think about when tackling new hardware.
Speaking to Polygon, Aonuma--who has worked on the Zelda series for decades and has been part of the team during multiple console transitions--laid out some of the areas that Nintendo focuses on.
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He said Nintendo's designers think about things like, "'What can we do that's new? 'What will we be able to do?' 'What kind of new themes will we be able to explore?'"
«And so I think, rather than focusing on the past, when we've changed from one console to another, it's more than a feeling of saying goodbye. It's a feeling of excitement. It's about what will be the new things that we'll be able to do,» he said.
Also in the interview, Aonuma said he thinks it's a «miracle of sorts» that the Zelda series has remained ongoing and successful after so many years. «That's not something that I credit myself with, but instead with being surrounded by a team of really talented people. Getting to work with them and discussing our ideas about the game is something that has been responsible for the continuance of the series,» he
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