We do not typically hear a lot concerning the sport engines powering Nintendo’s library of video games, however as we speak is a bit bit totally different with the information The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is seemingly working on the identical engine as Splatoon 3 and Nintendo Swap Sports activities.
This was highlighted by a Zelda fanatic on social media after which the dataminer OatmealDome chimed in to share some extra particulars:
“The very best title we’ve for it to date is “ModuleSystem”…when it comes to the [Tears of the Kingdom] internals, it appears to be like fairly totally different in comparison with Breath of the Wild.”
OatmealDome goes on to take a position that the engine may have initially been constructed with Tears of the Kingdom in thoughts, and Swap Sports activities and Splatoon 3 “simply occurred to come back out first”.
Whereas it won’t essentially appear that attention-grabbing, it goes to point out simply how versatile this engine is having the ability to soar from a web-based sport like Splatoon 3 to a gyro-focused sport like Swap Sports activities after which the open-world gameplay of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
This is not all the brand new Zelda and Splatoon video games have in widespread. Final weekend, Nintendo held a particular Zelda-themed Splatfest the place Energy, Braveness and Knowledge duked it out. In the long run “Workforce Energy” gained.