Check out what Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma, best known for directing and producing multiple Zelda games, just sent 3DS owners via Swapnote, the system’s text and picture messaging application.
“Hello, this is Aonuma, Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda producer,” he says in the note. “Did you enjoy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D? Thanks to everyone, the Legend of Zelda series had a very happy 25th anniversary. I hope you’re looking forward to new Legend of Zelda games.”
Nintendo has not yet officially announced any new Legend of Zelda games for 3DS, but it’s reasonable to assume that at least one is planned for the near future. Zelda is one of the publisher’s strongest franchises, one that has made multiple appearances on every Nintendo system thus far.
Aonuma has also expressed interest in bringing The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask to 3DS.
To access Aonuma’s note for yourself, just open up your 3DS and download the Swapnote app, if you don’t have it already. Activate SpotPass and you should receive the letter, which is decorated with adorable little images of The Legend of Zelda‘s 8-bit sprites.
We’ve reached out to Nintendo for comment and will update if we hear anything official. For now, we’ll just have to settle with a tease.
Thanks Kevin!
NoTheMama
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 8:44 AMSweeeeeeet
hobobeard
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 8:45 AMI hope he means “New” in italics not new as in more of the same on another device.
Zythrone
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:10 AMWhy does new have a capital?
Martin
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:30 AMBecause the majority of the people of new live or work there.
Chris
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:49 PMWhat you did there, I see it.
ajr
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:04 AMAs long as they don’t force players to use the stylus and the microphone on the 3DS, then I’m in.
Quirkhall
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM“I hope you’re looking forward to new Legend of Zelda games.”
Sure will if you take everything you thought was good into Skyward Sword and throw it out the door before you even type ‘The Legend of Zelda’ on the Design Document.
Not sure if want Majora’s Mask 3D, or new entry…
Ian
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 2:01 PMare you kidding? both!!!
adam
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:33 PMSo do we not have swapnote in Australia, I can’t find it on the store.
Pat
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6:39 PMThink its called Nintendo Letter Box
snæk
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:46 PMHmm, “New” with a capital N?
Maybe he means “New Legend of Zelda” games… just like New Super Mario Bros.?
It makes sense they’d do another top-down style Zelda for the 3DS, especially since Miyamoto once expressed how much he’d like to do a Link to the Past style game in 3D, and even said he’d like to remake that game…
The “Old” Legend of Zelda characters at the bottom further support this theory!! :D
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:02 PMI want Wind Waker – or maybe Link’s Awakening done in the style of Wind Waker
I remember reading in Game Informer that in the next 3DS Zelda Game – 3D will mean something
AerintheADEQUATE
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 3:23 AMI think ‘Majora’s Mask 3DS remake’ was an idea they were toying with doing *after* the new 3DS-targeted Zelda game is finished/released.
I’m still not sure which I’d like to see first. It pretty much depends on how similiar the new one is to Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks… (i.e. here’s hoping it’s not :-P)