Zelda gets Revolutionised

By Paul Loughrey Published 16 March, 2006

Controller compatibility.

Having already quashed rumours of a Revolution exclusive for the much delayed Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo has revealed that there will in fact be some additional features for the game that are exclusive to the company's new machine.

None of which will come as a surprise to the chaps at UK-based NGC magazine, who said as much ages ago only for Nintendo to claim it was "pure speculation".

But, speaking in a recent interview with the official Nintendo of Europe website, no less than Shigeru Miyamoto himself has confirmed that there will in fact be some compatibility with the new Revolution controller.

He also said that the game is coming along nicely - although he failed to give any further indication as to exactly when it might be finished.

"I would say that we are progressing well with completing it," Miyamoto stated.

"One of the most important features is that, because Revolution can run GameCube software, when you play Twilight Princess on Revolution you can take advantage of the Revolution controller."

Little more has been revealed about exactly how this will work, although according to Hyrule.net, Nintendo confirmed that in a separate interview, Miyamoto gave the example of using the new controller to throw a boomerang, or "shoot an arrow by pointing the controller at the target on the screen and pressing a button."

The latest Zelda game is, for many, the only reason left to keep the dust off of the GameCube, and its repeated delays have caused considerable frustration for fans. News of its compatibility with the new console may lift spirits a little, but, for the sceptics, it might also go some way to explaining the extensive delays in actually getting the game finished and on the shelves.

Miyamoto has stated that almost everything there is left to know about the Revolution will be revealed at the E3 expo in May, and it's likely we'll get a much firmer update on the progress of Twilight Princess at that time.

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  • petebritish #1 6 years ago

    Nintendo must be the slowest gamemakers in history just hope its good when it comes out. I have high hopes for the Revolution but will Nintendo have a steady release schedule. Or 5 games at launch then no more for 6 mths?


    Edited by petebritish at 16/03/06 @ 11:36

  • Azu87 #2 6 years ago

    Nintendo has said that they will make sure that there will be a steady pace in releasing games for Revolution for at least the first six months. So think it like this: at launch they'll release Super Smash Bros Melee and Miyamoto's new project. Then, a week or two later new Super Mario, and a couple of weeks after that Metroid Prime 3. They might release the cooking game at some point, and others of those more unique games, that they've been making for ages (many of Nintendo's different 1st party dev teams have been awfully quiet for a long time, so I think there will be many games from them).

  • Teeth #3 6 years ago

    So funny, this stuff. Nintendo are so transparent that people easily guess what they're doing, they say "don't be silly", then later on they say "oh yeah... actually we are doing that. heh". Morans.

  • Blerk #4 6 years ago

    Boo! Hiss! Bugger the Revolution! Just release it!

  • adamoo #5 6 years ago

    granted, i'll just have to wait and see what it all ends up being, but i hate the idea of a game that by all rights should be pretty astonishing almost being seemingly compromised by a last minute gimmicky addition. in general i think revolution has incredible potential, but that's assuming the games are based around it from the ground up and the control input is utterly integral to the experience. if the examples cited of 'throwing a boomerang' or 'fishing' are really the kind of things being added to the new zelda simply because they've realised that they're flogging a dead horse with the gamecube, i think that'd be a shame.

  • Hog-lumps #6 6 years ago

    I'd rather they stopped fannying around with the rev controller support and just release the damn game!!

    Anyway why couldn't they have just released it now and then produced a 2nd 'special edition with revolution controller support' version later on down the line?

  • Tonka #7 6 years ago

    I wonder if they will release it before the Revolution. If so it'll be really annoying to first play it on a Cube just to pop it in the Rev a few months latr to see waht the wand can do.

  • Cabelo #8 6 years ago

    Teeth: Even if they are that stupid, I'm pretty sure they don't spell it "morans". Good werk... j00 are teh hot w1tz0r!

  • smelly #9 6 years ago

    They did nothing of the sort.

    A rumour came out about something they were working on, and they just said they havent announced anything official yet, and anything else is pure speculation.

    They just dont want stuff known until they want people to know about it.

    Makes sense to me.

    As for taking a long time, that's how you can be assured of the quality.

  • Markusdragon #10 6 years ago

    Nintendo's approach to changes/innovation

    Stage 1: Refuse to speculate on rumours
    Stage 2: Publically deny rumours, but agree that rumours would be cool
    Stage 3: Find excuse for conditions that led to rumours
    Stage 4: Get Miyamoto to admit that rumours are true. Miyamoto is the sugar-coating of the videogame world, so everyone is happy.

  • regmund #11 6 years ago

    this could be one way of delaying an inevitable rev-only zelda. An attempt to appease us zelda-hungry fans until about 2 years into the next generation?..

  • ChrisS #12 6 years ago

    Interesting that some sites slated NGC for their story at the time of the Nintendo "denial". I'd like to think that the next issue will have "TOLD YOU!" in massive letters at the start of the news section.

  • varsas #13 6 years ago

    @petebrush: What about the Gran Turismo games eh?
    @Hog-lumps: Just like the GT4 developers and their new "with online" version?

    Better to release a finished game imho. Btw I don't remember Ninty actually denying the possiblity of Rev controller use. They just said it wasn't going to be a Rev game.

  • JonFE #14 6 years ago

    Come on, let's face it, the game would be delayed anyway... Whether the delay was or wasn't caused only by the addition of support for the Revolution controler, it is obvious that a new Zelda game has a grand target audience and it would be silly of Nintendo to release it on a decaying console, just a couple of months before Revolution's launch, with no Revolution support whatsoever...

    Consider, also, that they could easily make it available on Revolution only and that would certainly suck...

    My guess (and I'm sure the thought has crossed your minds too :) is that they will release it along with the Revolution - you know it makes sense.

  • Blerk #15 6 years ago

    Does it make sense to release it alongside the Revolution, though?

    A large amount of attention drawn away from your spanky new console by a game for your previous one? What if it's better than the Rev launch titles? I can see the press loving that.

    They should launch it as soon as it's ready, not wait around for the new machine. The game will still work on the Rev when it finally arrives, after all.

  • smoison #16 6 years ago

    This basically means they know they will have a lack of games for the REV, Just like the NGC and N64, so they figure why not have their game come out on both platforms....


    Thax alot, It really inspires confidence. Although, i'll bet this game plays better with the NGC remote (what it was designed for...).

  • Teeth #17 6 years ago

    @Cabelo: lol. That was deliberate. Nice try though.

  • Blerk #18 6 years ago

    Morans, yes? I got it, anyway. :-)

  • dk_rare #19 6 years ago

    Blerk seems to forget that Sony pushed the PSone's new slim look and new PSone games after the PS2 came out... and we all know that things didn't work out for Sony with that plan.

    Oh wait, yes it did, Sony made money on old games, old consoles and new consoles. KER-CHING!

  • Blerk #20 6 years ago

    Sony didn't release the new Gran Turismo or GTA for PSOne though, did they?

  • Xerx3s #21 6 years ago

    Wait is this the same ninty the announced some days ago that it in fact WOULDNT have rev extra's? Is thi becomming standard ninty policy? 0_o

  • Blerk #22 6 years ago

    Perhaps they're getting all their ideas of things to do from internet forums? If you say it, there's a chance they might do it!

  • dk_rare #23 6 years ago

    "Sony didn't release the new Gran Turismo or GTA for PSOne though, did they?"

    Wait, are you saying that you don't think Nintendo has some great games planned for the crucial launch of the Revolution? The Revolution which decides Nintendo’s lounge room console fate, that has had millions of pounds put into research, production and game development… and you seriously think that Nintendo hasn’t got any OMFGWOW games to show off and sell the console? Because if that was your point, then I’m afraid it holds like water to a ducks back to me.

  • smelly #24 6 years ago

    Wait is this the same ninty the announced some days ago that it in fact WOULDNT have rev extra's?


    No they announced that anything regarding that is pure speculation and that they hadnt made any such announcement about such a feature.

  • Blerk #25 6 years ago

    Of course they'll have games to show off. But aside from a proper Mario 64 sequel it's very, very doubtful that they'll be as high-profile as Zelda.

  • oerhoert #26 6 years ago

    <em>The latest Zelda game is, for many, the only reason left to keep the dust off of the GameCube</em>

    No, silly. You keep the dust of the GameCube because it's so pretty and sweet, and because it has the prime position in the living room. And because you can play stuff like Killer 7 and Ikaruga and Super Mario Sunshine on it, again and again. :)

    Yay!
    Edited by oerhoert at 16/03/06 @ 19:20

  • Feanor #27 6 years ago

    It's funny how nintendo have said the small size and handle on the GC wasn't as big a selling point as they thought, because I love those two things. It fits sweetly in the little space behind and to the left of our main TV.

    http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d36/Cururfinwe/dd941c2d.jpg
    Edited by Feanor at 16/03/06 @ 17:36

  • Teeth #28 6 years ago

    Yes Blerk, that was it :)

  • #29 6 years ago

    Link below

    :-0

    http://zeldatwilightdelay.ytmnd.com/

  • thegamesthething #30 6 years ago

    Feanor, that console modded up to look like a cat is really well done.

  • bunglebonce #31 6 years ago

    So I'd have to buy a Rev to get the most out of the game?

    Pish.

  • #32 6 years ago

    That's one way of looking at it...

  • Nikanoru #33 6 years ago

    While the Rev will be my first nextgen console (screw the rest), I will not be getting it until some time into its lifespan. So I sincerely hope that they have, in fact, NOT spent all that time on the rev compatibility and instead have used some of it to add CONTENT.

    In fact, REGARDLESS of whether or not I'll be playing it on the revolution, they BETTER have spent a good deal of that time on extra dungeons/areas/quests, or else I shall become very angry indeed!

  • Psi #34 6 years ago

    if ninty release zelda now for the gc then slapped out a slightly updated version with wavey stick support you'd all be kicking off that they were bleeding you for all your worth. They are bridging a gap between platforms with a title that can make or break their new machine.

    not sure about you but i only bought the gc when wind waker came out....

  • admir #35 6 years ago

    nitendo sucks just like every game they make

  • tenma #36 6 years ago

    I'm not a ninty fan and couldn't care less about zelda but it's dissapointing to read this considering how Reggie flat out denied that this was nintendo's plan for the game.

    It's one thing to not comment on speculation but I held nintendo to a higher regard when it came to lying flat out to its fanbase. ;\


    Reggie's still no Kuturagi when it comes to the whole 'lying' department, though. :\

  • smelly #37 6 years ago

    There are some real Immature posts in this thread! For gawds sakes get over yerselves!

    You could say microsoft did the same thing with Halo, put that in the 360, and it makes the most of the 360's new capabilities (i.e. the graphics get a bit better). Same goes here.

    We dont even know what the extra stuff is yet (just pure speculation). Its probably no real difference to the extra stuff you could unlock in wind waker with the gba plug in anyhow. It doesnt spoil your enjoyment of the game, if anything it adds to it, as it gives it replay value if/when you do upgrade to the new console!

    But no, all you guys can do is moan about getting something for nothing. And now someone is going to call me a fanboy for daring to point out the obvious or something equally as stupid.

    Gees. Sometimes I read threads like these and i get embarrased to call myself a gamer!

  • tenma #38 6 years ago

    smelly: I don't think people are upset about the game getting features that benefit those who happen to have a revolution, but rather about the fact that the game is being delayed simply to help the Revolution sell more consoles.

    The difference between this and your Halo example is that microsoft didn't delay Halo just so they could make a bigger killing on the 360. For people who have had to wait so long for this game just to have it delayed even longer not necessarily because it needed tweaking but becase nintendo wanted to capitalize off the game's sales by advertising it in tandem with the Revolution - "Buy Twilight Princess now with the new Nintendo Revolution and take advantage of the new controller configuration!"

    I don't give two shits about this game but I would be just as upset if a game that I had been looking forward to for quite some time was delayed even longer just so a new console could ride on its coat tails.

  • dk_rare #39 6 years ago

    Nintendo never denied that this was their plan, they just said it was pure speculation. Maybe they [EDIT: "They" being the website that guessed TLoZ:TP plans] just guessed, but they guessed right. It was still a guess though and we all know Nintendo don't react well to speculation
    Edited by dk_rare at 17/03/06 @ 07:39

  • Feanor #40 6 years ago

    "Feanor, that console modded up to look like a cat is really well done."

    LOL. Yeah, I took that photo after my first Xbox stopped reading DVDs and got moved to the bedroom to be a CD player. Now there's a new Xbox in that space, much to the cat's annoyance.
    Edited by Feanor at 17/03/06 @ 16:39

  • Virgil #41 6 years ago

    I sure hope that the only reason for the games delay isnt to do with the rev though. Originally i thought they were adding more to the game as a whole but if the only adition is that come christma you can look like a fool while playing the game im gonna be sad

    In the emotional sense that is. The fact that im worried about a video game is evidence enough that im not bothered about the other type of sad