My new prediction is that BotW2 will end up being a 2020 game.
I think they won't have anything else planned for their big holiday release so they'll double down on Zelda and maybe give them more staff members in order to get it finished on time.
Given that it's a sequel that's reusing the same engine (as far as we know), they should be able to do that, much moreso than if it were a completely new game, because there won't be as much bugtesting to get the mechanics working right. It will be much more about just producing the necessary amount of content. That's my guess anyway.
@Harmonie Nah I'm genuine. Don't forget, we literally had a picture at the beginning of this year with that weird Save Our Salmon message, and they've suddenly revved up Splatoon stuff again all of a sudden despite the games support being over (3 new pictures in 3 months). While I'm half joking about the hair, the circumstances around it have me convinced they're planning to announce a sequel.
@Dezzy If Death Stranding can be made in 3 years, BOTW 2 can be done in 3.5 years. I'm fairly certain that 3.5 years would've been enough for a completely new game if they wanted to.
@Dezzy Yeah,gieven that they wil probably re use 40-70% os assets and models.
Nintendo is probably fininshing the game right now,but thats just my speculation
I've always thought botw2 would be a 2020 game since it was announced. I imagine production started right after botw was finished and wasn't botw finished in 2016 technically? So it's been a pretty good amount of time. Not saying it's easy and they should spit it out, but using alot of botw assets should make it more manageable.
The only thing making me cautious is the fact that Nintendo clearly do think of 3D Zelda as their flagship series to some extent.
I think they have more of a "delay it until it's ready" attitude with this series than they do with any others. I certainly can't imagine them making a new 3D Zelda in 2 years like they did with Majora at this point in history. They clearly regard it differently today than they did back then.
They probably even regard it differently now than they did just 10 years ago, given the massive increase in sales BotW had from every other Zelda game. I mean it's sold like twice what Ocarina and Twilight Princess did.
I think they probably are. I bet they'll have Grezzo reusing that same engine and assets from Links Awakening in order to do the Oracle games. That will be next year though!
@Dezzy Yeah they probably do,but im interested if they are going to remake Minish Cap,Four Swords and maybe DS games?It isn't highly,especially with Switch only having one screen but still,it would be nice to have all 2D Zelda's on Switch.
I really don't think Minish Cap needs it. That still looks great today, if you play it on a small screen so the resolution isn't an issue.
As for the DS games, I'd love that because I enjoyed both of those. But the fact that they were built around the touch screen probably makes it unlikely. The Switch doesn't have a stylus for long-term touch play, and it also can't transfer to docked mode, can it? So you'd have games that can only work in undocked mode.
@Dezzy While I think the DS titles are unlikely at best, I bet you could implement gyro aiming to mimic touch controls so that it'd work in both modes, even if portable would be the superior experience.
@Dezzy Yeah,the touch screen will be an issue.
They can always include stylus,like with Dr Kawashima game,but i dont have resolution for dock mode and making them Switch Lite exclusive would be dumb.And yeah,Minish Cap still looks good,but it was relased only for GBA and the Switch would be better and more modern place for it.
This smame goes for Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures,and the co op mode will make sense on Switch,mostly couse local multiplayer with extra controllers or somthing.
@link3710 DS games arent that popular as Oracle series,nor Links Awakening,but given that lots of kids that grow up with those would love to revisit it it would make a lot of sense for Nintendo,probably in Second part of Switch lifespan.
As for controllers i agree,the joystick is the best option for those games.
I have a returning but more precise prediction. I predict that Nintendo will do a "twitter Direct" on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning (like Tuesday 6pm pacific, 9pm eastern, Wednesday 1am UK time) which has release date trailers of Xenoblade and No More Heroes III hence why eshop pages appeared recently, also March NSO games which are mostly Eliminator Boat Duel level of obscurity.
@Xenomorth The prediction is based on what Nintendo did on January 8th/9th 2019 when everyone was expecting a Direct on the 10th. We got release dates for January NSO games, Yoshi's Crafted World, FFX/X-2 HD, FFXII and Dragon's Dogma.
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