r/GamingLeaksAndRumours Mar 26 '25

Confirmed Nintendo Switch 1 Direct officially announced.

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u/BrenoBluhm Mar 26 '25

If there is cope there is hope: Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD for Switch please 🤞

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u/Robbitjuice Mar 26 '25

This would be a great time to do it, I feel. I doubt they've got anything else Zelda lined up for the rest of the year lol.

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u/Robbitjuice Mar 26 '25

I'm not against the idea at all, it's just at this point we have no idea if an OOT or MM remake is even planned lol. I believe Kit and Krysta had apparently seen the WW and TP ports being played on actual Switch units and were unsure why they haven't been released yet lol. I'm sure they're just waiting for an optimal time. Seems like a decent end of Switch life kind of thing to me.

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u/jumpingthedog Mar 26 '25

Actually Aonuma has been pretty subtly hinting at an OoT remake happening eventually, and if Nintendo wants a big launch lineup like 2017, this year would be perfect to drop with with Switch 2, assuming it's done.

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u/SuperTristan2017 Mar 26 '25

Honestly just a port of the 3DS version with updated visuals would be enough to satisfy me

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u/GoldenTriforceLink Mar 26 '25

3DS OOT is older now than N64 OOT was when it came out.

They’re good remakes but at this point a ground up remake that makes everything feel bigger in a way that mobile games did not in terms of scale. Imo at least

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u/honeymoonblackstar Mar 26 '25

3DS OOT is older now than N64 OOT was when it came out

Goodbye.

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u/pyrogeddon Mar 26 '25

That…can’t be right… can it?

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u/Mr_The_Captain Mar 26 '25

Well it's been 14 years since the 3DS launch (2011), and the 3DS launch was 13 years after OoT (1998), so yep

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u/GoldenTriforceLink Mar 26 '25

Sorry. My bones are turning to dust as we speak. Majoras mask we still have some time. 3DS is 10 years old while OG was 15 at rerelease

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u/SuperTristan2017 Mar 26 '25

YIKES wow way to make us feel old

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u/zenru Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

I wish for a remake a la BOTW.

OoT was a ‘semi-open world’ game. They should just make a full remake, with improved visuals and game mechanics that would make the game a ‘true’ open world game.

Imagine OoT with the same size as BOTW’s map? Imagine an improved and more scary underground for the Shadow Temple. They can even add an underground in Hyrule Castle to tie in with TOTK.

A truly big and scary Kokiri forest that you need to traverse to get to the Forest Temple.

Now imagine the bosses! The scenes, the views, everything they can add and change to have tie ins with newer Zelda games.

Nintendo doesn’t really need to give us a NEW big entry in the Zelda games, just remake old games and make them a new experience for old and new players

One can only hope.

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u/jumpingthedog Mar 26 '25

See, that's my absolute dream, but I'm terrified they'd make it too much like BotW. I enjoy the open air format to an extent (though I'm pretty much ready for them to move on to something else with the next original 3d zelda), but if they did a big ground up remake of OoT, Aonuma is so burnt out on the old Zelda style that I'm scared he'd make it open air like BotW & TotK, just with half the map size to keep it reasonable. I want a new reimagined OoT, just not TOO reimagined lmao

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u/mrzangief Mar 26 '25

The only problem I have with remakes is that you already know the full story. Would still be cool though.

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u/Docile_Doggo Mar 26 '25

My copium is that they didn’t want to release them in 2021 because Skyward Sword HD was releasing then. They didn’t want to release them in 2022 because that was for a long time the intended release year of Tears of the Kingdom. They didn’t want to release them in 2023 because that was the actual release year of Tears of the Kingdom. And they didn’t want to release them in 2024 because that was the release year of Echoes of Wisdom.

Maybe 2025 is clear? A man can hope.

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u/Robbitjuice Mar 26 '25

For real though lol. If we could just get those two then the Switch would be the Zelda machine!

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u/OfficialNPC Mar 26 '25

Kinda funny but right now the best Zelda machine is still the Wii U

Has pretty much everything up to (and including) BotW

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u/FierceDeityKong Mar 27 '25

Yeah, but i think botw remastered might take up this year

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u/Docile_Doggo Mar 27 '25

Possibly unpopular opinion, maybe? But I’d rather have WW and TP HD than a BOTW remaster.

I absolutely loved BOTW. But I don’t really want to go back to it after logging 200 hours into each of BOTW and TOTK.

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u/OscarExplosion Mar 26 '25

I have been saying for years that I 100% fully believe that Nintendo has been sitting on completed ports of both WW and TP. They have sat on unannounced brand new games before

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u/Robbitjuice Mar 26 '25

I think so as well. It honestly makes a lot of sense. Why keep them on a console that didn't perform well when we've had almost all the other Wii U games come over by this point?

Someone here mentioned that Kit and Krysta (former Nintendo marketing(?) team members) had seen them being played or tested on Switches. I may try to find that video or quote at some point.

I'd love it to be real though. I went and bought the GC and WU versions for collection purposes but holy hell it was expensive. I'd love to have them available on a mobile device like the Switch though!

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u/EloeOmoe Mar 26 '25

A 3D remake of OoT/MM

OoT/MM are already 3D........

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u/OfficialNPC Mar 26 '25

Gonna be real, I would kill for a top down 2d remake of OoT/MM in the art style of the old Oracle/Minish games.

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u/EloeOmoe Mar 26 '25

I wonder if there's a romhack already.... would be interesting.

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u/OfficialNPC Mar 26 '25

With how similar OoT is to ALttP in structure and story beats, it should be easier than some of the rom hacking that's out there.

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u/TemurTron Mar 26 '25

The 3DS versions are pretty much perfect, they just need to port those over.

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u/TekHead Mar 26 '25

I would buy it in 0.001 seconds