Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom will be the last Nintendo Switch game – Reader’s Feature

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A reader presents his theory that Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom will be Nintendo’s last major game on Switch and used to promote the Switch 2.

Like every The Legend Of Zelda fan I was eagerly awaiting the Nintendo Direct this week, even though I knew there probably wouldn’t be much information. If the game’s not due out till next year Nintendo aren’t ones to go on at length about a game that you won’t be able to buy for half a year or more. In the end they pretty much just announced the name and the release date, which is about what I figured and to be honest I could’ve imagined them doing just the name – so I was fairly satisfied.

It seems pointless to discuss the game itself at this point, since we know so little about it, but given the quality of the last one, and the fact that most of the same people are involved, I think it’s reasonable to assume that, even if it’s not AS good, it will still be a very good game in itself. It may even perfect some of the ideas from the flawed Skyward Sword, since a surprising amount of the footage so far seems reminiscent of that game.

Like I said though, I’m not here to predict what the game is going to be like, because that’s impossible, but I do have a theory about how it sits in relationship to the Switch itself. It’s my theory that it will end up being the last major Nintendo game on the Switch and a way to measure the improvements brought on by its successor.

By May 12 the Switch will be over six years old, which is not impossibly old for a console but it is well past the point at which you’d expected the next one to be announced, especially one that’s relatively low tech and could probably be much more powerful using more modern components – without even getting into a full ‘sequel’