With the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo fans are reminiscing about the game’s history. Former Nintendo Minute hosts, Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, left the company in 2021 after an office closure, according to their interview with MinnMax on YouTube. But they didn’t leave podcasting. Now they do their own Nintendo-focused podcasts on their YouTube channel, Kit & Krysta.
In their latest podcast, they go over their thoughts on how Zelda: Ocarina of Time could influence the future of Zelda games on the Switch 2. During the podcast, they share some insights on what Zelda was going through as a series when The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out.
Nintendo Was Seeing Dwindling Zelda Interest
When discussing the types of Zelda games that exist, Kit and Krysta mention traditional Zelda game style, dungeons and all. They say that while they hear fans saying Nintendo stopped making these kinds of games right when they were popular, their experience inside Nintendo was very different. Kit laments,
“There has been some revisionist history out there lately about how like, ‘Oh, the Zelda team ripped these away from us at the peak of their popularity,’ and, ‘Why did they do that,’ and, ‘They need to learn so that we can get those back.’ ‘What a crazy thing they did.'”
Krysta agreed with Kit, stating,
“What? That wasn’t popular back then. This series was in like dire straits. It was selling, like, nothing.”
Kit was involved in the focus groups within Nintendo prior to Breath of the Wild and said,
“The feedback is like the fan base is dwindling, this is not bringing in new players.”
“The interest and the audience was getting smaller and smaller. They had to do something dramatic like that.”
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