ConsoleUpdated November 5

Reports infer the Ocarina remake took three years.

Three years sounds like a clean development window; Aonuma’s account doesn’t give one. Asked when the remake began, he said it was hard to pin down when the decision was made, though he believed it came after development on Tears of the Kingdom had ended. Staff were being released to other projects as they discussed the series’ upcoming 40th anniversary and what would best celebrate it. Aonuma said there were many steps along the way, making the exact timing difficult to nail down. Wccftech and True Gaming infer a roughly three-year span from that account; the anniversary discussions are the clearest marker he gives, not a precise start date.

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