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I want Zelda wii U to take up at least two wii U disc space.

2 wii U disc = 50gigs

"We love Zelda’s music, its characters, and its worlds, but I hope Nintendo doesn’t consider itself beholden to those traditions. It’s a difficult line to walk – delivering something new while retaining beloved elements –"

Nintendo did this with Super Mario Galaxy. They reinvented 3D Mario. They had new, impressive music and changes elements that made Mario fresh again. They can do that with Zelda, and I think a lot of people actually expect it.

I think that Nintendo are holding themselves because of nostalgia. When Super Mario 64 was made, they had to do something completely different because they were moving to 3D and the game had to do new things, there was no other choice about it. They retained things that made Mario, Mario, but they came up with the Stars and new music, etc.

The same thing happened with Zelda: Ocarina of Time. They reinvented the franchise because there were moving to 3D.

I want them to reinvent the franchise. Do what they did with Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2. Let go of the usual things and go crazy with the design and music. It should be completely different game, but retaining the most important things to still be recognizable as Zelda. Just like how Mario 64 and Zelda 64 were.

Most importantly, and it was in the article, REMOVE the handholding!

All I want from ZeldaU is a epic game

What I want from Zelda on Wii U is that Miyamoto-san designs it, and that he doesn't listen to "what we want from Zelda on Wii U" peanut-gallery design articles.

Too many game companies have listened to too many crappy ideas from internet fans over the last 5-10 years. I have faith that Miyamoto knows how to bring on the Zelda, and that he shouldn't be constrained by anything, ANYTHING from other games or that fans claim "this is what we need, or else" fan-design expectation articles.

Zelda is great BECAUSE it doesn't have some of the ideas from other games. It doesn't NEED those ideas, and, in fact, the chemistry from many of the ideas presented above just doesn't go well with Zelda.

Truly open world Zelda? Voice acting? WTF? Do we really want the Zelda team burning time making GTA, when there are WAY more important things in a Zelda game than having believable, yet non-interesting characters everywhere? We call THAT game "Skyrim", folks, and its good if you're looking to play some Elder Scrolls, but it is NOT Zelda, nor should Zelda look to become it.

When you blend black and white you get GRAY. Gray doesn't contrast well, and typically ends up boring. It's also easy to miss in crowd of other grays. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't understand that analogy.

Better get something out before this console gets canned..

My most memorable Zelda experience to date apart from the original and SNES versions, are Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.

Waker I liked because of the ship and sailing and different islands and treasure and all that jazz. I liked the style as well. I see no reason they can't pull a Treyarch/Infinity Ward deal, do Zelda ala Waker and then another Twilight type or Skyward Sword (I never played any after twilight).

Can't wait, going to be Pro controller for me ;D

I own a wii u and 8 games that I have thoroughly enjoyed, however with the struggling sales I fear that if they don't announce Zelda at E3 it will look like they ( nintendo) don't care for the console anymore. It already looks that way with the smash bros release date announcement.

This is actually one of the few lists that I mostly agree with. Most of the time these lists offer up a load of suggestions that just don't fit with zelda.

What I want (feel free to disagree, everyone has their own idea of what constitutes a zelda experience and what would make it better) is for them to combine the approaches they took in skyward sword with taking zelda in new directions, maybe with some MM thrown in. So I want the overworld to be like skyward's in terms of content and style but with a large, connected world, with less hand holding and skyward's emphasis on story.

I want them to keep the swordplay but combine it with the option to play on the gamepad for more traditional but still unique play. This goes with things aonuma has said like zeldau potentially being multiplayer (or at least not be purely single player) and taking advantage of the wiiu while still using the motion control sword (which they said they wanted to do for the next zelda). Essentially you would have two characters (link and zelda?) and each player plays one of them. Link controls like Skyward sword and zelda controls like traditional games but with gamepad specific features (at the very least she has the map). This would play to one of the main strengths of the wiiu, asymmetric gameplay. In SP you'd get to choose between the two.

I want the complex story of MM along with the sidequests from that game. I want some sort of nonlinear dungeons, not necessarily as far as Link between worlds but maybe on the level of darksiders (so side dungeons that you can do in any order and don't affect the story). Finally I want this game to challenge me but I wouldn't mind if there were some form of beginners mode for new players, I just don't want to have to play it to unlock the actual hard difficulty.

RPG style level ups. Zelda RPG

fine nintendo fanboys: ill concede with you on the early xbox360 era graphics they showed for the zelda U demo but at least agree with me that what made the old 64 mario and zelda games great was their mature tone and a REAL sense of danger if you didnt complete the task at hand (nintendo seems to have lost that dangerous spirit when they started developing new motion based control schemes/experiences but i like all their consoles). you HAD to save the princess and you HAD to save zelda because Ganon was actually scary!(a little blood was tasteful during the final battle but dont over-do it like gears of wars' stupidly fake looking strawberry jam blood) and in Mario 64 the dire tone of the music in the bowser levels just made the eventual bowser battles that much more intense. If they could appeal to their mature fanbase more in that way, then nintendo hardware would fly off the shelves. imagine if these were the graphics to the mature re-imagining of mario 64 on wii-U hardware(had it been a little more powerful lets say) http://199.101.98.242/media...

I can't wait!!!

if it's bigger than skyrim I'll be happy, and at least 3 big DLC'S

People who have My Nintendo accounts should get early access codes to use to buy directly from Nintendo. And of course add a captcha or two in order to stop bots from taking the inventory.

Remember that scalping only works if stupid people support them. Unfortunately, there's lots of stupid people that are willing to support, so scalping isn't going to stop anytime soon.

Its down to bots and scalpers buy all the stock, need to stop that

Cool. So they must feel confident in the line up then.

Steam deck is my system of choice. Everything just works. Especially with plug ins so easy to install from the menu.

I love the handheld market but let's face it- it's kinda a niche market. As pumped as I am about these, all my "normal" friends and even my kids want nothing to do with it.

Yes, after more than 40 years consoles are are about to be replaced by handhelds....and mobile too! And PC! ( gee where have I heard this before!? ).

In fact, we were assured numerous times that consoles were a dying breed for the last two decades now. Yet here we are.

So because one ( very rich ) company has utterly failed to make their console desirable or provide anything of real value to their supporters ( after DECADES in the business ) now we are painting ALL the consoles with same brush. Even though Sony and Nintendo are enjoying great success as always. This just so dumb I can't even find the words.

'These handhelds bring the power of consoles to your hands'.... I would LOVE to see those handhelds you mentioned run anything approaching PS5 levels of resolution, framerate and detail.

Even if such a device was foolishly made, just how much do you think it would cost for a handheld with the tech to run PS5 games natively and provide sufficient battery life? Did you even put any thought in before making this claim?

I'm really enjoying my PlayStation Portal! Had a blast playing FF7 Rebirth on it. Can't wait to see the Switch 2 and the next PSP ;)

What's funny is no matter how powerful the handhelds are Nintendo is always on top. I'm sure the Switch 2 will be under powered compared to what we will be available at the time of launch, but that will not matter at all.

Anast reference to a war between two plastic boxes is sad in my eyes maybe not in urs there's a lot more serious conflicts in the world than two consoles trying to come come out on top ,so I find iam very self aware how petty these arguments are

When you're on the losing end, peace is always the cry..... go ask Greenberg for a reference point.

"Device Wars" are always dumb

Console wars are toxic nonsense to begin for the man children to begin with. Play everything. That is best for all gamers.

For me I won't look at a console again after getting an Rog ally with the 3080. This device plays all the games I have thrown at it at 30/60fps in handheld and 4k 60fps when connected to the 3080. Yes it was more than a console but it's definitely worth it as has so. Many advantages over consoles. I still think consoles have their place the same as pcs too but great to have theses options.

There are no 'handheld wars' since only Nintendo offers exclusive games on their handheld (I'm not counting Switch emulation).

Without exclusive games, they all play the same games, and thus really just a variation on the same platform. Nothing worth warring over, or even thinking about.

Nintendo controls this space, and they won't easily give it up, as for the handheld PCs, Steam Deck pretty rules the roost, closely followed by something like the Rog Ally. I feel like Nintendo and Steam pretty much have this sector covered, adding Playstation or Xbox to the fray probably won't gain those two any worthwhile market share, especially with the way they operate now.