What simply occurred? Nintendo’s long-awaited sequel to Breath of the Wild lastly has a agency launch date. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will arrive on the Change on Could 12, 2023. Nintendo introduced the launch date and revealed the sport’s title as a part of a teaser video that premiered throughout immediately’s Nintendo Direct presentation.
Zelda is arguably Nintendo’s richest unique IP. The primary recreation within the sequence was created by Japanese designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, and launched in Japan on February 21, 1986 as The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda earlier than discovering its strategy to North America greater than a yr later as The Legend of Zelda.
Miyamoto’s inspiration got here from time spent as a baby exploring fields, caves and wooded areas in Kyoto. The sport was additionally distinctive in that it was among the many first to characteristic non-linear gameplay, permitting the participant to freely discover the world and sort out dungeons in (principally) any order.
Enjoyable reality – The Legend of Zelda and Tremendous Mario Bros. had been developed concurrently by the identical workforce, and nice care was taken to maintain the 2 tasks separate.
Almost 20 mainline Zelda video games have been revealed thus far together with fan favorites like A Hyperlink to the Previous, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. The final entry in the principle sequence was Breath of the Wild, a Change launch title that dropped alongside the console on March 3, 2017.
The title has confirmed wildly profitable with gross sales of over 27 million models as of June 30, 2022. That’s ok for fourth place all time behind Tremendous Smash Bros. Final, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with gross sales of 28.82 million, 39.38 million and 46.82 million, respectively.
We received our first take a look at Nintendo’s imaginative and prescient for the sequel throughout E3 2019 and noticed the primary gameplay footage final yr. Nintendo initially deliberate to proceed the story sooner however was pressured to delay the sequel again in March to present the workforce extra time to complete improvement.
