Gaming News

Nintendo Teases “Breath of the Wild” Sequel

DISCLOSURE: Most of our content uses affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, we may earn a commission when you buy through the links. Each of your purchases via our affiliation links helps us to support the cost and maintenance of this site.

The recently-concluded Electronic Entertainment Expo certainly had its fair share of surprises for gaming fans, as it remains one of the biggest venues for videogame companies and developers to showcase their software titles.

Of course, Nintendo made its presence fully aware at the convention, offering a sneak peek into its upcoming games. But the industry giant held back its biggest surprise until the last moment, revealing a new title in development for the Nintendo Switch.

In its E3 Direct presentation, Nintendo showed a trailer featuring Link and Zelda, the main characters from the award-winning 2017 game “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”. The brief clip shows the two exploring a ruined castle, while dark energy seemingly builds up in the background. As the two delve deeper, a malignant force awakens, and we are shown a castle rising up in the middle of the wilderness.

Convention-goers and streamers likewise went wild at the announcement, which simply stated that a sequel to Breath of the Wild is now in development. For the past few months, rumors have been floating around claiming that Nintendo is working on more Zelda titles, which include the already-announced Link’s Awakening. This surprise reveal certainly confirms some of those speculations.

Unfortunately, Nintendo did not provide a release date for the game.

Given that the first game was a massive hit selling over millions of copies worldwide, one can’t help but wonder how Nintendo plans to turn the second one into an even bigger blockbuster title. But then again it’s Nintendo, so we have high hopes for Breath of the Wild 2.


MORE TOPIC: The Best Nintendo Switch Games


As far as expectations go, the first game featured a vast open world where players were able to do just about anything in-game. Since this looks like a direct sequel, it’s highly likely that we’ll able to explore the reimagined land of Hyrule once again, which was a high point of the original Breath of the Wild.

What do you think? Will you be looking forward to this one? Hit us up in the comments below!

About the author

Mike Viray

A writer with a fondness for consumer tech, Mike is also a music lover, and an avid gamer as well. He and his wife are big fans of Mario Kart.

7 Comments

Click here to post a comment

Leave a Reply to Gomer Cancel reply

  • I missed attending that expo so it’s only here that I become aware of this sequel of the Breath of the Wild. I really like the first one, so this new one from Nintendo excites me to the max and I guess this will require me a lot of energy drinks. But since I am more available now for playing and achieving the challenges, I think I can beat this now for less 100 hours as compared to what I did before of more than 200 hours! 

    This is going to be exciting!

  • I guess this will require me a lot of energy drinks! I’m excited by the more than 100 shrines and trials in the game PLUS the need to be prepared and properly equipped. I can imagine myself defeating Ganon’s true form without minding the side missions and extras like I did in the first Bread of the Wild. This is pretty exciting, and I can’t wait for this!

  • Oh man, I hope this comes out in the near future! They’re keeping a tight lid on the release date though lol. It’ll be cool if they let players check around Hyrule, but I don’t see that happening in the sequel, just like you mentioned. Nintendo must have included some big aspects in the sequel because the first Breath of the Wild was insane! 

    • Maybe we’ll get dungeons again? In addition to the shrines. That would be sweet and would add tons more content.

  • The Zelda franchise is why I purchase Nintendo consoles!  This is great news.  Sadly, I hate not knowing when this will be released.

    Do you have any more details (i.e. story line, game play, etc.)?  I’d love to get some more details, if when you find out more.

    Please keep me posted!

    • We’ll post more details as they become more available. For now Nintendo has yet to announce any more info.