14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo's famous games designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, confirmed that a high definition Legend of Zelda title will be released for the new Wii U console at one point in time.
Nintendo has a huge amount of quality franchises, from Mario to Star Fox or Pikmin, but The Legend of Zelda series has been a hallmark of excellence for the Japanese company ever since the days of the first Nintendo Entertainment System.
Now, after quite a long wait, the creator of the franchise, Shigeru Miyamoto, confirmed to Kotaku that a high definition Zelda game will finally be made for the newly announced Nintendo Wii U home console.
"This is an HD system, our first HD system, and we want to create a real HD Zelda game for it," he said. "You will see a lot of these in-depth and deep experiences in terms of visual style. You will also see some play styles that are fun and interesting because of the play structure."
The Wii U was demonstrated during E3 2011 with a small technical demo showcasing Link, the hero of the series, facing off against a giant spider, impressing lots of longtime fans with the quality of the graphics and the sharp detail of the environments, not just of the two main characters.
Nintendo emphasized that the demo isn't part of any concrete Zelda project, but Miyamoto promises that the variety of internal Nintendo studios are going to work together and bring the famous series to the new, high definition console in the future.
What's more, the designer also confirmed that the company isn't putting any pressure on developers to make full use of the HD features, as smaller studios, which can't invest that much in games, will be able to use simpler visual styles that will still look impressive.
"We are not planning on putting any restrictions in terms of requiring developers to leverage HD in a particular ways," Miyamoto said. "Even if you are using a simplier visual style it will still look very beautiful."
The Nintendo Wii U is currently scheduled to appear in 2012, probably during the first half of the year.