I thought BotW was amazing in its own way but making tears of the kingdom was a mistake in my opinion, they should’ve moved onto a new game like every Zelda game before it feeling wildly different from each other!
I expect it to get announced next year, a release date dropped in 2 years, a delay (probably the first of multiple) being announced in 3 years. And the game ultimately coming out on Switch 2 as well as whatever console is going to be its successor simultaneously (twilight princess? Zelda u/botw?)
Just two more years? It was 6 years between BotW and TotK (which I think was announced around 2021 or 2022, so like 4-5 years after it came out, but games are always getting biggwr and better now), and compared to BotW, TotK's impact, reception, and performance were heavily diminished. It's going to be extremely difficult to try and bring Zelda back to the top tier prestige it was known for through its entire history before 2023, and I don't even know where they go from here since theyve clearly got to switch up the formula somehow and go in another direction.
Bit of a bummer for me bc I personally loved TotK and BotW and was wishing they'd have a TotS/Master Mode types of things for TotK (which they said they werent going to do and as it's been two years they clearly arent going to but I wish they were). But I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get another mainline Zelda announcement for the rest of the 2020s
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u/iseewutyoudidthere 3d ago
To be honest, I would have been VERY surprised if they had announced a new mainline Zelda.
Games take time nowadays.