Satura Iwata Confirms Zelda Wii to Come This Year

Zelda Wii will be making a release before the end of this year, according to Nintendo President Satura Iwata. (it doesn't get any higher up on the totem pole then that). This is according to an interview he did yesterday with Ashi Shimbun. The actual news was broken to us English speaking folks via Andriasang. We will work on a full translation today, so look for that later today or sometime tomorrow. Still, the biggest news has been translated for us: Zelda Wii is coming this year.

[conjurdevil]

to all zelda fans! I cant wait to see what its going to be like new gameplay n as always awesome story n soundtrack.I need to get my Wii fixed asap now.

[Oldsnake007]

GOTY 2010

quick question: Can the WII play Gamecube games. Also WII isnt a HD console so, does the image looks worse on Hdtvs than SDtvs ?

Any problem when i connect my 'WII with my HD tv ?

[Redempteur]

WIi can play gamecube games ..
As long as you have the yuv cable , you can play wii games in 480p.
But be carefull many gamecube games will NOT support that résolution ... so the answer depends but in most cases be NO

[Trevorthenerd]

If you have a hd tv you can buy the wiis component cables.
http://img.alibaba.com/phot...
It makes the image sharper.

[eagle21]

great news, Zelda and Last Guardian are now my most anticipated!

[conjurdevil]

and heavy rain for me too

[eagle21]

and God of War 3 plus Mario Galaxy 2..... list goes on....

[snaredrums]

Brush that dust off your wii, 2010 is gonna be a good year to own a wii!

No More Heroes 2
Red Steel 2
The Grinder
Metroid: Other M
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Monado
Gladiator AD
GoldenEye 2 (wii exclusive)
Super Meat Boy
Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom

and now Zelda, best year to own a wii yet!
And those are all exclusives!

[akashifire]

Yeah, great list. I bet there'll also be a lot of surprises as the year progresses.

[ScubaSteve1]

since when was golden-eye 2 announced and when was it a wii exclusive last time i recalled it was still a rumor

[EvilTwin]

Looking at the games on Wii for 2010...even first party stuff alone...I think Nintendo just pwned Matt Cassamania at IGN for his "Nintendo is lazy" article.

No, Matt...firing your three biggest guns in the same year isn't lazy.

And we still don't know what the heck Retro is working on, or the status of Pikmin 3.

EDIT: I'm with Scuba on Goldeneye. We've gotten rumors and little else.

[Fragger2k8]

Hopefully it will be better than Twilight Princess. It was pretty fun, but I wasn't impressed by it at all.

I can see them messing this one up though, 99% of Wii games are aimed at little kids, so I'm sure this will be too.

[akashifire]

99%? lol

[Fragger2k8]

Just a rough estimate, but I'm sure it's around there somewhere. =P

[Jamescagney]

The wii's got so many exclusives coming out this year, I'm sure adults will be able to enjoy them as well :)

[Fragger2k8]

Yea, I agree with you there. I'm not saying adults can't enjoy games on Wii, I do, but that doesn't hide the fact that almost every single one of them is aimed at little kids.

And all those disagrees, really? So most of the Wii's games aren't aimed at those who are younger, huh?

[akashifire]

So let me get this straight... You would say that games like MadWorld and No More Heroes are geared towards kids? lol.

Oh, don't forget Sexy Poker on WiiWare. ;p

[Fragger2k8]

Those games are among the few exceptions. I did say that MOST games on the Wii are aimed at kids though, and that's just a fact. I'm not against the Wii if that's how I'm making it seem, I like the system and own one myself, I just hate that most games for it are complete garbage.

I'd really love to see the next Zelda game to actually be a challenge and a bit dark in a way. It doesn't need blood or anything like that, but it just needs to feel a lot less fairytaleish, if you know what I mean. Probably the most important thing that it needs though is 1:1 motion controls for sword combat.

[Trebius]

*stands up*
*walks over to his wii*
*blows dust off*
*checks if it still powers on*
*check*
*checks if it still runs games*
*check*

*faint smile crosses his face*

*powers off wii*

*continues to wait patiently for a game worth purchasing*

*stops this dumb comment*

*goes to PS3 web browser*

*goes to youpor---*

*erm...powers off laptop*

[Samus HD]

do you think it will be released in Wii HD

[Odreus]

Day one for sure! Now this and The Last Guardian are my most wanted games of 2010!

[Jamescagney]

This year is going to be a good one. So many games coming out I want.

[na-no-nai]

hell yeah!!!!! i cant wait. this year like one hell of a year for nintendo. hopefully we get to see their mature game this year too!!

[hatchimatchi]

Exciting stuff.

This pretty much guarantees that E3 this year for nintendo will feature the new zelda in some form of media. Still pretty much a year off till the release (i'm guessing the holiday season) but I have no problem waiting. I absolutely loved TP and i'm sure i'll love this one as well.

[EvilTwin]

Yep. There are few things more reliable than the quality of Zelda. It's one franchise Nintendo doesn't screw around with.

That said...if it's basically Twilight Princess with a revised combat system (Motion+), I wonder how people are gonna react. I'd love it, but a lot of people hated on TP.

[yippiechicken]

TP was the first Zelda I ever played (I know, weird, huh? Considering I'm almost 46! and I've owned all the Nintendo systems) and I loved it! Obviously, I have gone back and replayed most of the older ones since (gotta love the Virtual Console). They are all great so far! I'm really looking forward to the new one.

[EvilTwin]

Literally got chills reading this.

They better not have effed up the translation.

New Mario, new Metroid, AND new Zelda all in the same year? Has Nintendo ever done that before?

[hatchimatchi]

probably if you factored in DS, Wii & VC releases

=P

[EvilTwin]

lol

Yeah, you're probably right about that, hatch. Ya caught me.

I do wonder, though...if this pretty much guarantees a new console from Nintendo in 2011. I mean, they're firing all of their biggest guns at once. Once Zelda drops, what else is there to really look forward to on Wii?

[Gr81]

You know its easy to kind of feel that way that once Zelda comes (assuming its the last of the trifecta to be released) Wii's done with receiving big Nintendo franchises, I was thinking the same as I read you post lol. But then I remembered a system called SNES. After Super Metroid and ALttP remember the game that burst out on the scene? Well two of them; One used the fx chip StarFox and the other became a mega hit, Donkey Kong Country. Not too long after that there was Mario RPG, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Kirby came out alil before then as well.

Basically what I'm saying is there's still plenty Nintendo can provide us gamers with and third parties may be cooking up some stuff as well.

I mean for me personally, I'd like Kid Icarus to make a return, but more than that, I want my Wave Race sequel, WSR didn't cut it for me lol. Also the flight game in WSR gave me a glimpse at what StarFox could have in store for us or if Factor 5 didn't go belly up (damn you lair lol) Rogue Squadron. But yeah I'm not so sure Nintendo will have blown their load this year..though they certainly seem to be trying to haha.

[EvilTwin]

Arius -- The one card Nintendo has yet to show is Retro.

Maybe it's because I'm such a Prime junkie, but if the marquee Nintendo title of 2011 would be a Retro game, that alone makes 2011 a good year, IMO.

...unless they're cooking up something for Nintendo's next console down in Austin...

[Gr81]

LoL, almost forgot about Retro's project. That will be coming to Wii whether in 2010 or 2011..How could I overlook Retro?

[Yangus]

2010:Zelda&GT5.

[Sickr]

Is it too early to call game of the year? Can't wait...

[jalen247]

Nice. 2010 will be a great year for Nintendo. Galaxy 2, Metroid Other M, and Zelda in the same year.

[tunaks1]

with all the doom and gloom articles about the Wii its quite ironic we heard this now

anyways can't wait for this game!!!

[Listen]

I hope this Zelda introduce ALOT of NEW elements and is VERY different (yet keeping all the things we love about Zelda the same)

I read that aonuma said it's about seeing people dreams and being able to change them...hmm

[Numark]

can't wait for this, super mario galaxy 2, and super meat boy

[hatchimatchi]

the thing im most excited for is how the game will look. I'm not a graphics whore by any means but the wii boasts some incredibly ugly games. It wouldn't be so bad but most of the games look worse than gamecube titles. Mario galaxy assures me though that zelda wii will look awesome. Galaxy is a beautiful game and I know nintendo will pull out all the stops to make Zelda look just as good, if not better.

This announcement almost makes me forget all the complaints i have about the wii. That's the kicker too with nintendo, no matter how many times I get frustrated with them, I always come crawling back for my mario and zelda fix. lol

[na-no-nai]

reason for why most wii games look ugly or possibly worst than gamecube is that devs dont try to push the wii. as you may already know the wii is twice as powerful than the gamecube

[hatchimatchi]

absolutely, the wii is a powerful little system.

That's why im so curious as to how Zelda will look. The gamecube sported some of the best looking games last gen, i.e; star fox adventures, wind waker, metroid prime. So with twice the power it's gonna look fantastic. We saw it with galaxy and kinda with MP3 (i read somewhere that the game didn't utilize the wii as much as it could have). All that's left now is Zelda.

Off Topic.

i have a question that hopefully someone can answer, if i buy a new wii can i transfer over my vc/wii ware downloads?

I bought my wii on launch day and with component cables i get dead pixels on my tv. It's not my tv cause it only does it with the wii and only with component cables. It's not the cables either cause i bought the official nintendo cables and then a 3rd party, happens with both. Im wondering about being able to transfer my purchases because i'm considering buying another wii so i don't have to deal with dead pixels annoying me when zelda wii is released.

thanks

[EvilTwin]

Hatch -- Only with component cables? The problem doesn't show on old composite cables? I guess the simplest thing to do is to save everything to an SD card (or three, or four).

As to Wii's graphics...we can definitely see more than we already have. It's souped-up tech from last gen, but it IS souped up. With Corruption...well, it was supposed to be a launch title (and it makes me wonder how different games on Wii could've looked if it was the standard from day one).
Launch titles never fully push a system. Most likely, Corruption's engine was a modest update of what was powering Prime 1 and 2, stretched as far as it could go (which probably accounting for the longer door loads). That said, it sounds like a lot of stretching:

"So what is 'Prime 3' about? 'Texture detail.' Todd Keller (Retro art director) said that in the Wii game, every texture — the flat pieces of art that coat every side of every figure, object and piece of terrain in any 3-D game — was handmade, ideally at 512 pixels wide, double the resolution of textures in the two earlier Prime games."
http://www.mtv.com/news/art...

[na-no-nai]

well i read a couple of articles about that. well if you call up nintendo about it im sure they can do it. of course you will need your information from the previous console

i havent try so i dont know it worth the try tho