Nintendo has not approached Tantalus about bringing the Zelda: Twilight Princess HD to the Switch

Nintendo has not approached Tantalus about bringing the Zelda: Twilight Princess HD to the Switch

Published on May 14, 2022 by Brian (@NE_Brian) in News, Change

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There are a few first-party Wii U games left that fans hope will be brought to Switch, including The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. So far, however, this has not yet happened.

Tantalus – the team behind Zelda: Skyward Sword HD – originally worked on the Twilight Princess HD until its release on the Wii U in 2016. However, according to CEO Tom Crago, the company has not asked the company to work on a Switch port yet.

On the latest section of Fragments of Silicon podcastCrago said the following when asked about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for Switch, and if Nintendo has reached out:

“No, and look, we would of course love to do that, but it has not been a priority for Nintendo – or at least not in the conversations they have had with us.

The way it works with our friends over there is that we will jump at every opportunity we can to work on one of their titles. There is a constant dialogue between our two companies. Often there is some time between the titles and there may be other ideas being kicked around, but in the case of Skyward Sword some time passed and then comes the email: ‘Would you be interested in considering bringing Skyward Sword on to Switch? ‘ To which the answer, of course, is: ‘Yes we would’. And then we go into the conversations with Nintendo about what it might look like, and finally we get started. So it’s similar in many ways to how Twilight Princess (on the Wii U) came to be. “

Of course, Nintendo does not necessarily need Tantalus to work on a Switch port in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. The company could always turn to another company or handle the task itself.

Tantalus last teamed up with Nintendo on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, which was released in July 2021.