The thing is they can have another team remake it again, just like they did with OoT and MM on 3DS. The only team that would make a new game is the Zelda team, and they’re going to be working on “open air 3.”
To be fair game generations and also the time to make them are quite long these days. Sure, March 2024 will be 13 years after the 3DS version. It’ll also still only be on the previous generation of Nintendo platforms.
It would be weird if Switch 2 didn't get some kind of new OoT release, virtually every Nintendo platform where it was feasible did
Yes.
Yeah I don't think people realize that OOT is peanuts compared to where the series is nowadays. It's also a game that's been rereleased numerous times over the last 25 years, there isn't a huge untapped market for a remake of this game. They can remaster the 3DS version and probably sell it for a cool 3-4 million, rather than putting in countless manhours painstakingly recreating it in HD.
As gaming gets longer remakes of games that got remakes already will be more common. There is an entire generation of kids who are quickly become teenagers born after the 3DS remake came out.
Yeah it kinda gets more ridiculous the more you think about it.
There's no nice way to say it, wide linear 3D Zelda was struggling commercially throughout most of the 21st century and a massive remake would just bring the series right back to the same issues it had before. I think some fans just think "OOT is classic and iconic, so a remake makes sense," not realizing the market is entirely different from where it was in 1998. Nintendo also rarely remakes their games unless they were 8 bit, I think they are somewhat precious with their legacy titles. There's no way you'd get a game like Mario 64 DS today.
We're waiting for something like major version 5? of Dragon Quest III.
If they rerelease the 3DS version, there's at least options to give to players.
Yeah, honestly I’d say it’s more likely they just continue on with 2D remakes or new 2D games than try their hand at an OoT remake, those are less taxing to make, and draw less comparison to the open air games due to the shift in perspective and more arcadey and snappy gameplay. More easy to instantly tell apart. Whereas OoT remake with modern graphics (and full price knowing Nintendo) would have millions of confused new fans going “wait, why do I feel so much more limited here?”
Yeah, up the textures/lights and you have a really damn solid OOT HD there.I think it's inevitable we'll get an HD Port of OOT/MM HD next gen.
When WW/TP are out, they'll have to get something out to fill the now 6-7 years we have in between 3D Zeldas, and the well has been tapped of 3D games that arent already on the system.
As for a full, ground up FFVII style remake? I think someday, but not for a loooooong time. Again, it's taking so long to develop 3D games now, until technology gets to the point where that changes, I dont think it's worth it for Nintendo to invest all that time into a remake.
Plus, OOT 3D upscaled looks STUNNING. I dont think we'll ever need anything else
I wouldn’t use the word struggling. Even for Skyward Sword. Just look how its sales are when compared to Mario Galaxy 2, released 1 year before and also had half of sales of its predecessor. The only time I remember them worried about Zelda sales was after Wind Waker. Even so the sales are quite ok when comparing to other GC releases.
Aonuma outright said that if Twilight Princess didn't sell better than Wind Waker, that was gonna be the end of 3D Zelda. BOTW was a direct response to Skyward Sword's diminished sales as well.
My interpretation is that he feared this could happen if the audience kept getting worse. In the end it seemed to be more of a GameCube problem than the franchise itself. I may be forgetting something but I don’t remember them talking about being frustrated about SS sales. Even though they mentioned about SS lower critical reception.
A game like Skyward Sword didn't spend 5 years in development to only sell 3 million units. BOTW sold more than 10x that. They're not going back to that.
Link's Awakening, but a 2D game is something of a different scope.
Open world games have been consistently popular on consoles for over 20 years since GTA3 came out. There was no universe in which TOTK wasn't a huge success, especially coming after an industry-changing title like BOTW. What you're proposing would be spreading Nintendo's resources too thin and developing games in styles that are a dead end commercially. They're not gonna make smaller, less commercially viable games on the backburner just in case their S tier franchise suddenly goes topside. If for whatever reason the BOTW style no longer becomes commercially viable (which probably won't happen for at least a couple of console generations, if at all), Nintendo will adapt as they always do. Zelda has been a blockbuster series for over 35 years, it can and has adapted with the times.
They won’t(and most who like old Zelda will never want this). But it has nothing to do with trying to paint them as struggling.
I know you're just playing devil's advocate, but that is an insane ask. Think about what you're saying. The open world games might get less popular, so let's have a second team make games almost as expensive if not more so for almost assuredly less sales upfront in the event open air Zelda becomes less popular? 3D Zelda was becoming expensive and unsustainable, that's why they switched to the open air formula, on top of it actually justifying the costs. You're essentially saying Nintendo should fund a second team that's just as expensive and takes away development resources in case something bad happens.
