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Grand Theft Ocarina Could Be Gaming's Barbenheimer

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Grand Theft Ocarina Could Be Gaming's Barbenheimer

Nintendo's gamble on the GTA 6/Ocarina of Time match-up already seems to be paying off

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Making games gets harder, longer, and more expensive every year, but nobody seems to have told Nintendo. The platform-holder has kept up a schedule of more-or-less monthly new exclusives all year, and it's been a lineup of impressive breadth and quality.

Three weeks have passed since the massive Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and only two weeks are left until Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. Time for the hands-on previews, then, and Polygon's Mike McWhertor duly reports that Switch Sports Resort is a perfectly chill compilation that channels WaveRace, Pilotwings, and even Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, as well as the mighty Wii Sports.

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We all know this is just the build-up, though. Just two weeks after Switch Sports Resort comes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a remake so consequential, of a game so revered, that it effectively has the status of a brand-new mainline Zelda game. I've heard a plausible but unverified rumor that this is how it's being treated internally; that, rather than entrust the remake to an outside developer like Grezzo (which handled Ocarina of Time 3D and the Link's Awakening remake), Nintendo made it in-house.

There's certainly a sense of event about it, only added to by Nintendo's bold decision to release the game in November.


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