New Zelda to use Rev controller?

By Ellie Gibson Published 3 January, 2006

Just imagine the possibilities.

Back in November, Nintendo was quick to quash rumours that Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would make an appearance on the Revolution rather than the GameCube.

And whilst that's still very much the case, a new twist in the tale has emerged, since apparently you'll be able to play Twilight Princess on your Revolution using the crazy new "freestyle" controller.

Nintendo, you may recall, announced that Twilight Princess was delayed back in August, saying that the development team needed more time to "add some incredible new elements" to the game.

Well, according to NGC magazine, these elements are specifically designed to enhance the game for those playing on their shiny new Revolution consoles.

"Twilight Princess will be playable on the forthcoming Revolution using the upcoming console's unique controller," the article states.

"When you insert the disc into your Revolution, you'll be given the option to use the Revolution's controller, with all the advantages this will bring."

But what kind of advantages, exactly? Can we expect new weapons and the like, new levels or perhaps some brand new gameplay? Nothing else has been revealed so far, and we're still waiting for Nintendo to tell us whether or not this is just a rumour, so it's a case of wait and see. In the meantime, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is due out in the spring.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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  • Artemus #1 6 years ago

    Spring? I thought NGC said this November...eek

  • megastar #2 6 years ago

    Y'know i wa thinking just the other day they should do this - honest.

  • GuiltySpark #3 6 years ago

    erm this may sound retarded but what months is spring in?

  • bionutz #4 6 years ago

    goodie goodie.

  • Eighthours #5 6 years ago

    Welcome to Dec 22nd on Gamesradar! :)

  • smelly #6 6 years ago

    erm this may sound retarded but what months is spring in?

    March/April/May time

  • plok #7 6 years ago

    Does this means Zelda could be classified as a Revolution launch title?? - best launch line-up ever!!!

    Can't wait for this whether its for Cube or Revolution...just give me it asap!!! :)

  • thegamesthething #8 6 years ago

    "erm this may sound retarded but what months is spring in?"

    sept - dec, for ninty europe

  • alimokrane #9 6 years ago

    Ok I see what's going on ... I can only take this as a hint that Zelda is going to be a launch title .. It's so obvious .... saying things like it will use the ontroller in this way and that way can only prove that Zelda is going to be a launcth title because let's face it NINTENDO has no chance without its ket titles Like Zelda and Mario ... The moron developers never payed attention to the Gamecube which was really really a shame !!!

  • davyuk #10 6 years ago

    So what happens when you stuff a tiny GC disc into a full-size slot drive?

  • alimokrane #11 6 years ago

    "So what happens when you stuff a tiny GC disc into a full-size slot drive?"

    if that was an issue then how would you play GC games on Revo then ?
    Edited by alimokrane at 03/01/06 @ 16:52

  • Agent_Llama #12 6 years ago

    I was discussing this with a mate just the other day having heard rumours about Zelda not appearing on the GC. Zelda for Revolution's launch? Genius. Personally, I think using that new controller for Zelda could be awesome - swinging the sword, aiming the hookshot, endless possibilities. :o)

  • davyuk #13 6 years ago

    davyuk: it handles it just fine, apparently. They're pretty proud of that feature.

    Clever chaps. Wonder how it works?

  • Eighthours #14 6 years ago

    Stop it. Some people don't read every bag of shite website out there.

    What about the magazine that the story was nicked from? It's been out for a couple of weeks. That's the point. It's old news. News is called "news" because it's new. Otherwise it'd be called "olds".

    Complete but a few day old news is much more useful than no news

    Complete? Is there confirmation from Nintendo? No. Is there more info from any other source? No. Your idea of complete seems to be Driv3r-esque. This "defend EG at all costs from any criticism whatsoever, no matter how mild" attitude from some of the regs is really starting to grate.
    Edited by Eighthours at 03/01/06 @ 18:07

  • Sorb #15 6 years ago

    Since ImportGamer...oops I mean EuroGamer was taking a break between 22/12 and 2/1 I think itīs fine they report what has happened while most of us were taking a break.

  • Psi #16 6 years ago

    for you that are slagging EG off, do you shout off in your local newsagents after reading every tabloid and screaming in disbelief when one reports something a day later than another?

    or if someone talks to you about a football result do you beat their heads and scream that you saw match of the day last night and the result is already known to you?


    you really sound like utter cocks :)

  • Razz #17 6 years ago

    I think I'm experiencing a time warp. I swear this news was posted over a month ago.
    Edited by Razz at 03/01/06 @ 18:52

  • davyuk #18 6 years ago

    Psi - hear hear

    The 'old' comment is getting... well, old.

  • Razz #19 6 years ago

    What you don't understand is that I read it on GI.biz

  • Nikanoru #20 6 years ago

    /grroaaaaaaan

    I'll start kicking small animals if the delay on Zelda TP was spent not on stuff that I can enjoy on my Cube, NOW, but exclusively on extra shit that I have to buy their new thingy for.

    Fuck fuck fuckity fuck the next generation.

  • Galvanizer #21 6 years ago

    I don't think the game will come out until AFTER E3 2006.

  • Azu87 #22 6 years ago

    If NGC is right in this thing, I think they are just speculating the release date not being until November. They've probably just added one plus one. Meaning that piece of news where Revolution is said to launch in November during the week of Black Friday. Maybe they heard that this will be released at the same time with the Revolution, and they have heard the same rumour about November being the release date, so they thought that the release date for both will be November. There's a new rumour about Dengeki stating that Revolution has already "gone gold" and apparently the release date will be in May, according to Dengeki Magazine, that is. No one has really shown that article (or a scan of it) where it says that, so it's probably false.

    Still, you never know before Nintendo makes a proper announcement. I really hope it's soon after E3, at least in some part of the world (Japan, NA), so we'll know that Europe will be getting it after a couple more months, if Nintendo is to be believed in yet another announcement about Revolution being launched everywhere during a 3 month timeline.

  • Sko #23 6 years ago

    "News is called "news" because it's new. Otherwise it'd be called "olds"."

    Heh. Kinda funny moaning about something being old and derivative with such a dusty, pilfered quip.

  • Scimarad #24 6 years ago

    It's hardly a bloody revolution launch title if it's a Gamecube title with enhancements...

    Actually hold on a sec!

    /looks at 360 launch line up

  • Blerk #25 6 years ago

    M-eh. Couldn't they just release the bloody game sooner and then do a Rev-specific version with all the wand stuff in?

  • pretence #26 6 years ago

    FYI Eighthours, news is called news cause it refers to the four different directions, North, East, South and West....

    Olds..... You are an idiot

  • Lothar Hex #27 6 years ago

    Does anyone else thing this is a little daft? They've already missed the Christmas season with Zelda, which was the only thing they would have had for it. Now they might be delaying it again to add something that probably doesn't need to be added.

    How many Zelda fans would just rather have the game out ASAP?

  • pretence #28 6 years ago

    There looking for a bigger market than just your normal Zelda fan... They'll buy it one way or the other...

  • Eighthours #29 6 years ago

    FYI Eighthours, news is called news cause it refers to the four different directions, North, East, South and West....

    Olds..... You are an idiot

    Of course I am.

    From AskOxford.....
    "What is the origin of the word 'news'?
    The original sense of news was 'new things'; this is long obsolete. Since the 15th century it has been used to mean 'tidings, the report of recent events, new occurrences as a subject or report or talk.'
    The adjective new goes back to Old English."

    From Wordorigins.org
    "News
    No, news is not an acronym for north, east, west, and south. In fact, there are no pre-20th century words that are derived as acronyms--acronyms are a distinctly 20th century phenomenon.
    Rather, the word comes (quite obviously) from new--meaning something that has not existed before, something timely."

    Get it right before calling me an idiot, eh? Something 2 weeks old already reported elsewhere is not "news".

    Quite how a tongue-in-cheek remark descended into this is typical madness. EG copied something that's 2 weeks old from another source, dressed it up a bit, but added nothing to it. The end.

    It would have been news if EG had solicited a comment from Nintendo to add to the original "revelation". It would have been news if EG had got a source from elsewhere to back up the original claims. Since they did neither of these things, given the time gap it was manifestly not news.

    FFS, this ritual of some (not all) EG regs' refusal to acknowledge any criticism of the site at all, and insult anyone who dares to say that the site isn't the most amazing thing in the whole world ever in every news story and review, is beyond pedantic.

    That's my final word on the subject for now, and I didn't even want to slag off the site for this story. Look what you made me do!

  • pretence #30 6 years ago

    :)... idiot..:)

  • Psi #31 6 years ago

    eighhours are you actually gonna comment on the news in the news thred or just about the news being old news not new news and the fact that new news on eg is often old news pretending to be new news when in fact its not new in the slightest?

    (news is relative to when a person hears it 'thats news to me!' not dependent on who first reports it, thats a tabloid creation to convince you to buy their paper regularly)

  • Eighthours #32 6 years ago

    eighhours are you actually gonna comment on the news in the news thred

    Sure. I don't know whether the game is going to be released before the Revolution comes out. My hunch, and it's just a hunch for now, is that it'll end up being a Rev launch title that's also playable on the Cube, which is a subtle change of emphasis from "Cube title also playable on the Rev".

    There would be advantages and disadvantages to this. A new Zelda title for a new machine's launch would be a big talking point. Nintendo would get software sales from the big Cube userbase, as well as the game being an incentive for people to buy the Revoluion. But would it just be a current gen game with gimmicky controls added, and therefore not a very good advert for the new system?

    Alternatively, if TP was to be released on the Cube well before the Rev's release, would it get totally lost in the market due to the platform being on its last legs?

    I don't think it's an easy call for Nintendo to make, they're stuck in a halfway house now and I bet they wish above all else that they could have finished the game and released it before Xmas.
    Edited by Eighthours at 04/01/06 @ 11:17

  • Blerk #33 6 years ago

    Hmm.... I'm not buying that idea. The biggest launch game for a new machine actually being a previous-gen game running under emulation? It's a PR nightmare.

    If it runs on the Cube it absolutely must launch as a Cube game, not a 'pretend' Revolution game. I wouldn't be surprised to see it at about the same time as the Revolution, though - if only to ensure that it actually gets some shelf-space on the high-street, many shops having already retired their Cube sections.

  • Eighthours #34 6 years ago

    I wouldn't be surprised to see it at about the same time as the Revolution, though - if only to ensure that it actually gets some shelf-space on the high-street, many shops having already retired their Cube sections.

    Rule of thumb: Never dilute your hardware release. It would be very foolish to release this title at the same time as the Rev if it wasn't somehow tied to that system. It would be like Microsoft releasing Halo 3 for the original Xbox on Nov 22nd 2005 in the US - bad idea.

  • Blerk #35 6 years ago

    In which case I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how exactly Nintendo is planning to actually sell Twilight. Surely it's not enough to target the game solely at people who already know they want it?

    Despite my previous confidence that it would remain a Cube game, for the first time I'm beginning to have doubts. If it doesn't launch in the Spring then they've completely missed the boat, surely?

  • Eighthours #36 6 years ago

    If it doesn't launch in the Spring then they've completely missed the boat, surely?

    If it goes past April with no release, then I think Ninty are going to have to throw their eggs in the Revolution basket.

  • Psi #37 6 years ago

    i think it'll be a cube game but the rev controller will be compatible with cube too.

    so if the launch titles are weak at least you can play TP on your new rev. ill bet there will be enough ninty games out on the rev to satify. maybe TP will get a big gfx boost and a rev only version to show the difference between the old hardware and new.

  • Lagto_Soa #38 6 years ago

    Quite how a tongue-in-cheek remark descended into this is typical madness. EG copied something that's 2 weeks old from another source, dressed it up a bit, but added nothing to it. The end.

    If it's any consolation, I'm starting to get a bit weary of that myself. EG as a whole is still the best games site I visit, but the 'news' side of it is definitely lagging way behind everything else.