Nintendo says next Zelda game is unlikely to be a direct follow-up to Tears of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has said the next game in the series probably won’t be a direct sequel to Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

In an interview with Game Informer, Aonuma and Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi spoke about the reception to the game and what’s planned next.

When asked about the possibility of a direct sequel to TOTK, Aonuma said making a sequel to a game which is already a sequel would be “getting a little bit wild”.

“We were seeking to build on top of the world we created with Breath of the Wild,” he explained, “and really exhaust the possibilities of what we could put into that world.” As such, Nintendo sees TOTK as the “final form of that version of The Legend of Zelda,” he said. “I don’t think that we’ll be making a direct sequel to a world such as that that we’ve created.”