During Nintendo’s recent fiscal results meeting, Shigeru Miyamoto took a few minutes to talk about what we can generally expect from the Wii U.
He mentions that the Wii U won’t just be about advance graphics, although they may play a bigger role in some titles including The Legend of Zelda.
Can Nintendo deliver with a more rich texture Zelda game on it’s new console or will we be seeing another game like Skyward Sword?
I think Nintendo can deliver a much more richly-textured Zelda game – as long as those graphics are sharper and clearer. There’s something fuzzy or blurred about TP’s graphics that just makes them look…well, it makes the atmosphere look very hot and very humid, and the sun reflects off of everything too much. I don’t know what it is, it just looks like it feels like a summer in Mississippi (no offense, I’m a proud Mississippian). I have to say, the daytime sky in OoT seemed more realistic to me than the daytime sky in TP. I guess my obsessive emphasis on desiring a realistic-looking atmosphere and sky probably stems from my background as a Meteorology student and a storm chaser.
I would love to see a Legend of Zelda with HD graphics, but I won’t be terribly disappointed if they give us another one like Skyward Sword. I like Skyward Sword’s graphics, with the exception of the fact that there seemed to be a lot of pink mixed in. I thought the sky looked pretty nice, too.