Miyamoto Confirms New Zelda In Pipeline News

Speaking to 1UP in the build up to the North American release and final leg of Wii Fit (expect plenty of coverage in the next week), Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that the Zelda team are reforming to work on a new title although it's not yet known which format this will appear on.

Defending the continued doubts over Nintendo's apparent abandonment of its traditional audience (it's really not that bad Ninty fans, Wii Fit is a lot of fun), Miyamoto-san claims, "Of course, that being said, we do have the existing teams at Nintendo working on the kinds of products we've always made over the years. The Zelda team is forming again to work on new games! But to me, it's about finding these new interactive experiences and bringing them to people."

Of which, Miyamaoto illustrated his hands-on role in helping to bring the Wii vision to Nintendo developers:

"It's a different way of designing than people are accustomed to. So in order to resolve a lot of that uneasiness and help the team feel more confident, I unfortunately needed to take a lead role and stand at the forefront of that process and help them realize that it really is OK to start from scratch and build from there."

So for now it seems the man behind Zelda and Mario is keen to work on pastures new, developing brains and fitness across the world, whilst the fate of Mario, Link, and co, rests in other hands it seems.