![]() Lastly, you get to read interviews with the development team, learn about their thoughts, opinions and wishes for the series. They both answer questions and add new mysteries at the same time. Makes revisiting those sides in-game a lot of fun. They tell the story of each race and how it was affected and shaped by past events, explain the origins of the ruins you come across when playing the game and really giving everything a new twist a new depth. I also think that from an artistic and story telling perspective, you can draw plenty of things from this book.Īside from the development process, the book also delves into the history of BotW's Hyrule, starting all the way back more than 10.000 years ago until the present time. I loved seeing how the characters came to be, how the different regions were developed, etc.Īs someone who's persuing a career in this field it inspires me greatly. There are so many small details and random bits of information, it really makes the world feel even more fleshed out. The book takes you by the hand and shows you around Hyrule how it was built by the Nintendo team and what thoughts and ideas went into it. You get to see early concepts of characters, props, landscapes, tons of illustrations, extra information, all with creators' notes and so much more. If you enjoyed Breath of the Wild you will LOVE this book! It's obvious how much work they put into it. (I absolutely recommend getting the hero's edition - it really elevates the whole experience even more with the included extras.) The company has created and released some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners.Īs of 31 March 2014, Nintendo has cumulative sales of over 670.43 million hardware units and 4.23 billion software units. The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven".Ībandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third-most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels. Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo has a limited edition Zelda-themed OLED Switch for sale, if you can actually find it.Nintendo Co., Ltd. Switches all run the same type of graphics, though the OLED-screened Switch has the biggest, most vivid-colored portable display. You don't need to worry about which Switch to play Tears of the Kingdom on. One interesting future possibility: Maybe Nintendo makes future Tears of the Kingdom DLC that could support a more graphics-boosted next-gen Switch in years to come? That's total speculation, but not impossible to imagine. I love it so far, but I do dream of how much better this could be with another graphics/performance upgrade in the future. ![]() The bad news is it's really not much better, even six years later. The good news is that Tears of the Kingdom runs just fine on the current Switch models, and has about the same performance feel as Breath of the Wild. Some Pokemon games haven't looked so good, but Tears of the Kingdom feels excellently optimized for the aging Switch hardware, and somehow makes epic landscapes seem fluid and beautiful. Though Nintendo's graphics capabilities now feel like they lag significantly behind what the PS5 and Xbox Series X can do, Nintendo has still been clever about optimizing games to make the most of the aging hardware. That doesn't seem to be the case here, barring some sort of jaw-dropping last-minute surprise. The Switch is already six years into its life span, and Nintendo has often timed new consoles to debut with new Zelda games. ![]() Will the Switch run the game well, or is this a moment for a Switch 2? ![]()
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