Miyamoto: Zelda Wii coming in 2010, at the earliest

by Christopher Grant on Jun 2nd 2009 10:32PM

Wondering where the in-development Zelda for Wii was at this morning's Nintendo E3 keynote? At an invite-only developers event with Shigeru Miyamoto, the revered designer confirmed that the title wouldn't see release until at least 2010. "We hope to bring it to you next year but it may take a little longer," he said through a translator. "To be honest, at E3 we wanted to announce a new Zelda game for Wii." Unfortunately, that desire didn't earn the title a spot in Nintendo's keynote and it was instead relegated to the developers event. He also said that the title could "possibly" be a Motion Plus exclusive – though if he's not sure, we don't know who would be.

The "announcement" included artwork – we weren't allowed to take pictures of (sorry!) – which was Twilight Princess-esque, featuring Link and a female Zora character. Here's the bad news: the more astute amongst you may remember that Miyamoto took the opportunity at last year's E3 developer's event to reveal a new Pikmin title for Wii in development (not the Wiimake) and, almost a year and two major keynotes later, we've yet to hear about it again.

Tags: e3-2009, Legend-of-Zelda-2010, Nintendo, Shigeru-Miyamoto, Wii, Zelda, Zelda-Wii

Reader Comments (161)

Pictures please?

Miyamoto Forbid pictures on his prense conference and only showed a art concept of the game

I was hoping for a return to the Wind Waker art style. Oh well. Twilight Princess was just so boring looking. The art design was really uninspired.

If they had shown even a smidge of this Zelda at their press conference they would have completely stole the show with the classic Nintendo trifecta (Mario, Metroid, Zelda). A new Pikmin (which REALLY needs to get made) would have just been icing on the cake.

they are reserving that for next year

My Douchebag wiifanboy personality thinks: besides, they are letting their competitors have a little glimps of light and hope before Nintendo takes it all from them again

muajaajajajajajajajaja

They're probably not talking about it too much because, to start, the way this article talks about it makes me think they still have some crucial game design choices to make before they feel comfortable showing it off (Ex: no confirmation of Wii motion plus support). Plus, there is probably a business related reason. What people sometimes forget is that E3 is not only around for the company's to show off to the fans. It's also for the retailers, developers, etc.

Zelda didn't earn a spot in the keyunote?

WTF!!!

Zelda shoulda HAVE BEEN the fucking keynote.
If shiggy had walked out and hyped the new zelda to high hells, even without a single pic they would have got a world wide standing ovation.

But your telling me that mystery book-games for and I.P. i have never heard of did earn a spot in the keynote?

Man im glad im ion the MS camp now.

"Man im glad im ion the MS camp now."

The MS camp? Are you serious? *eyeroll*
Fanboyism is so fucking stupid... They are all BUSINESSES. They want your MONEY. In the end they are always going to do what is best for their business, not necessarily what the fans want. I can understand loving or hating a particular product, but a company is not always going to give your exactly what YOU want. That's not how they work. They don't cater to individuals so everyone needs to get over this fanboy crap (as if that'll ever happen).

Hopefully it's not a sidescrolling 4p co-op affair with a pulse monitor, AMITIRE!? HIYOO!!!!

Yes, I'm a tire.

Legend of Zelda and the Four Swords

ONLY...for the Nintendo Gamecube

and GBA.

where have you been the past year? duh the new zelda will be a rail-shooter. (sorry, 'guided experience').

Step 1: Announce new Zelda for Wii
Step 2: ?
Step 2: Profit

Step 2 would be "release"

and apparently so is profit

stupid keys just have to be right next to each other -_-

Step 1: Mutter the word Zelda
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit $

Zelda is just a TAD bigger than Pikmin... I'd say that if they were willing to talk about it now, we'll see more details by the end of the year, and maybe a release in late late 2010.

Im predicting a March 2011 release. It will originally be announced for early December 2010, pushed to Feb, and then just for the heck of it push it back to March.

Twilight Princess was utterly flawless after you got past the stupid being a wolf collecting little lights part. After that I was in awe of the game throughout. I hope the new one is as dark and grim, and hell it could even have the wolf but i DO NOT want to go pick up 50 stupid lights again.

He said in the meeting that the next Zelda will feature a more mature Link than before.

A more mature link... than what we've seen...?

My god...

Legend of Zelda: The Walking Cane of Oracles.
Tired of all his "Hya!"s and "Aaaaugh!"s?! Well, listen to over 10 new voices! Including "Dang-nabit!", "Back in my days!" and "I ain't payin you rupees for cuttin my lawn with a sword!".

Featuring Ol' man Gannon and his castle-turned-retirement home!

And don't you worry ladies, cause Zelda is back and knitting more than ever!

Watch out Summer of 2010! The Triforce is wheelchairing its way back into your homes!

Well, maybe by "more mature link" he means one that can talk. Or something. I mean, it is 2009 after all, not 1989 still.

@Vcize: I don't think they could find a voice that would fit enough fans' conception of Link and there would be mass panic and uproar. We've had Link so long as a character, I'm sure every fan has their own voice for him by now.

Hearing an official "Link" voice for the first time will probably send me into cardiac arrest. Kind of like when I watched the Harry Potter movies after reading the books (though I do like the movies).

A more mature LInk? Isn't he already an adult in Twilight Princess? And besides, I'd rather play with Link as a kid again. All my favourite Zelda games have been the ones where he is a kid.

I hope that they get the guy that did the Zelda TV Series! That would be the best fan service evar!

Or in Nintendo years: 2014.

No, that's Final Fantasy years.

just be happy they aint "Forever" years

@CJLopez

I see what you did thar........;D

I'd make a joke about Valve Time, but they went and made L4D2 and ruined that joke.

same, idk why but i liked twilight... but i didnt i really dont know how to explain it

Well, hopefully they'll show something at their fall conference. If not, we've got until E3 next year...

I'm one of those guys who enjoys each Zelda iteration but fails to see what's so special about them when compared with games each year that end up just as good, but with twice as much ambition (and as a result, a fresher feeling than what you get from playing a game that has been largely unchanged since the N64 days). I'll probably end up buying the next one, too, but unless Nintendo takes a new direction with the gameplay, I don't know if I can be excited for it. Played OoT, it was great. Played MM and WW, they managed to impress me on their art directions, which kept me chugging through despite the fact that they played mostly the same. Twilight Princess, I beat, simply out of principle - I don't leave a game unbeaten - but, even with the Twilight world, it didn't have the flair or the fresh feeling the two before it did. I want to see something even bigger than the transition from OoT to MM or MM to WW. I wanna see something that'll reinvigorate my love for the franchise. Even if I don't, I'll likely still buy it, but I won't be happy about it, no sir

I agree whit you 100 %

> I'll probably end up buying the next one, too

Nintendo: mission accomplished.

> I want to see something even bigger

They do NOT care as long as you buy the games.

What do you mean "here's the bad news"??? No Wii Zelda (announcement) until 2010 is awful news!

It would be a mistake to not implement their own hand made peripheral into one of their own games. It would also be a good idea for a difficulty setting. That way anyone can play the game, going by Nintendo's set laws.

The fact that this exists makes me willing to forgive them for most of their keynote, but nothing will ever make me forgive the heart monitor thing.

So if they had shown it thye would have upped their worthwhile games showing to a staggering 3. Still not good enough Nintendo keep trying, you'll get there some....year.

You're loving this aren't you?

Nah this wasn't nearly as satisfying as last year. I found myself just incredibly bored during this year's conference.

Why do you have to hate, did you have a bad childhood, I know I did.

That's weird, I saw at least a dozen games that look fun.

Quite the opposite actually. After the N64, playstation had given me a taste of what games could be so i switched to them but I still had a little respect for ninty. This generation they shat all over it, and I guess I didn't take that very well.

And I'm just talking about wii stuff here. Golden sun DS gets a thumbs up from me

"I found myself just incredibly bored during this year's conference."

in other words, he couldnt find anything to bitch about

It doesn't matter what Nintendo would have shown, tmac would have put on his piously false Nintendo-broke-my-heart robes and bitched about how disappointed he was no matter what. That's the problem with people that started gaming with the PS1. They don't understand that pretty much everything Sony has was at one point heavily borrowed, bought out or straight up stolen from Nintendo. Which is why it's so satisfying to see Microsoft slapping Sony around like the bitch it is.

Yeah, for the last time my first system was a NES which promptly overheated and caught fire one day after I came home from school.

And yes, it takes a LOT to impress me specially from Nintendo. Showing 2 games is simply not enough, I don't care if it's mario and metroid, it's...not...enough. I would have been pissed if Microsoft showed Alan Wake and Splinter Cell and then nothing. Same thing with Sony if they just showed Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 then went with casual shit the rest of the way.

You nintendo fanboys desperately need to raise your standards, or years like last and this are just going to keep happening.

Did it burn down your house and kill your family? Is that why you carry such unbridled Nintendo hate? Here's the thing, dude. Nintendo mostly shows games that Nintendo makes. Do you get that yet? Sony and Microsoft don't have the same first-party clout that Nintendo does and so they rely more heavily on their third-party stuff. How much of what was shown at Sony and Microsoft's conferences was first-party? Not much, punkin. Just the Me Too motion stuff, really. So I'd say that 2 big games is pretty damn impressive. If you have any sense, you'd agree.

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Most Recent | Next 50 Comments

Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Breaking News

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days

Vita 'UMD Passport' won't be offered in US 217 comments
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: A tempting fate 150 comments
David Jaffe leaves Eat Sleep Play, layoffs hit developer [Update] 107 comments
Don't call it a remake: Final Fantasy X is a 'remaster,' to be clear 94 comments
Battleship movie adapted into FPS by Double Helix 90 comments

Miyamoto: Zelda Wii coming in 2010, at the earliest

Reader Comments (161)

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:39PM Yatcho said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:50PM CJLopez said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 2:55PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:39PM SpeeGold said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:50PM CJLopez said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:52PM CJLopez said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:59PM SpeeGold said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 4:46AM Istari Spartan said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 6:14PM SpeeGold said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:39PM MarkezJM said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:43PM Freddie Mercury said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:24AM The Wicker Man said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 5:42AM xxxsam said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:40PM Freddie Mercury said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:05PM Mr Khan said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:44PM Freddie Mercury said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 3:40AM AntiVillian said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:41PM Araman said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:53PM Brodo said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:41PM Rankore said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:55PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:03PM DevilSei said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:08AM Vcize said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:47AM Saria the Cat said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 1:50PM Railgun said

Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:13AM Dasfoote said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:41PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:50PM RobS the 3rd said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:55PM CJLopez said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:56PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:17PM Zertoss said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:42PM jeffreyhaywood said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:42PM cesaria said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:42PM Da Largest said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:03PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 9:12AM Dummy00001 said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:43PM ChrisAre said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:44PM ColorblindMonk said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:44PM RobS the 3rd said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:45PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:49PM RobS the 3rd said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:50PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:52PM RobS the 3rd said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:53PM cesaria said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:54PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 10:57PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 11:57PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:00AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:05AM (Unverified) said

Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:15AM (Unverified) said

Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

Double Fine returning to its adventure game roots with Kickstarter project [update: 315K down!]

Featured Stories

Portabliss: Time Ducks (iOS)

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: A tempting fate

Portabliss: Sticky Bees (iOS)

The most popular postsin the last 7 days

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days