By: Daniel "DSCUBED" Friedlaender
I think this would likely be obvious even without any confirmation, but seeing as how Miyamoto and others confirm about 2.35 times per day on average that they are working on a new Zelda, I figured I would give you the latest updates on who is talking up the existence of the next Zelda. But there is also something else at the end...

So, first off, we have Miyamoto. He, in a big round table with GameInformer, briefly mentioned at the end that they are in fact working on a new Zelda title. Here is the quote:

"Don’t worry; Miyamoto also clarified that he has not forgotten they need to keep making Zelda games. Good to hear."

In addition to that, we also got confirmation from Nintendo of America's Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Denise Kaigler, that, "...Wii is still less than two years old. Mr. Iwata announced at E3 that the Mario and Zelda teams are working on new games for Wii, and Mr. Miyamoto announced that he's working on a new Pikmin game."

Now this third and final thing. To me, it is very exciting because it puts forth a possible answer to the whole "Nintendo is ignoring the hard core gamer" mess.

I hope you are all sitting down for this.

Shigeru Miyamoto, in an interview in San Francisco done with various media outlets like GamePro, "...noted that while Pikmin's Lead Designer worked on Wii Music much like Zelda's top talent took on Wii Fit, both developers are now back to working on their classic franchises."

What does this mean? It means that some of Zelda's top developers were working on Wii Fit, but have now gone back to doing what they do best, working on Zelda games! To me, assuming Miyamoto isn't just trying to appease us, this brief glimpse of Nintendo internals provides core gamers (or at least me) with a certain feeling of relief.

Perhaps this hard core vs. casual game making is cyclical and we are going into the "core phase." Perhaps Nintendo feels they've already hooked enough casual gamers to broaden their core base. Whatever the case, it is good news for us Zelda fans as it means more resources allocated to Zelda and other core titles. Don't get your hopes up, but we could be seeing a new Zelda title sooner than we had expected.

It's been almost 2 full years since Twilight Princess came out, I'm hoping sometime next year Nintendo shows us a trailer for their next Zelda, images, SOMETHING to give us a hint as to what they're coming up with for the next entry...

I still maintain that had they shown just a little bit of a Zelda trailer at E3, that people would have drastically different opinions of Nintendo\\\'s showing there.

My hopes are already up. In the words of Beck, "Hell yes!"

Everyone knows there is a new Zelda in the works.

"It means that some of Zelda's top developers were working on Wii Fit, but have now gone back to doing what they do best, working on Zelda games"

I had a Duh moment there: People going from one project to the other isn't earth-shattering news. It happens all the time. If Shigeru (or Aounouma, or someone else from Nintendo) would tell something about the story/gameplay, or they would show a little trailer. Now THAT would be news.

"Perhaps Nintendo feels they've already hooked enough casual gamers to broaden their core base"

I don't think so.

Either way, I expect a trailer in 2009 and if we are happy we get it the same year.

The new zelda will rox our sox :3

Hopefully!

well a break from Zelda is good imo, it will get some fresh blood and inspiration into the game...

Dax, don't forget Phantom hourglass was released in 07, which means it was more or less a year ago. Still that is awesome news! and if this new game is tougher, all the better. and to henrie: i also get the feeling that this ones gonna be realesed soon after presses.

Yeah, Phantom Hourglass, but I think that was made by a totally separate team, so I didn't count it.

ah, fair enough

Jeez people...

Seriously Zelda games take about 3 to 4 years as soon as it's released they start working on the next one.

In the case of this one that's coming out they have been working on it before TP was released.

& Again going back to TP...Remember when it got delayed?...remember when it got delayed again... & then again?

I don't know about you but I would prefer a game to not be announced for a year or so than to find out it's been delayed every 3 months until it's ready.

Give these masterpieces some time.