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Eiji Aonuma, the designer/director on the recent Zelda games, was interviewed in the latest issue of the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine. In the interview he made the following interesting quote:

“Ocarina of Time was the first title I worked on, and I was continuously tackling challenges every day during its development, so I think this is the title I feel I impacted the most. I believe that experience made me what I am now. I always think about what we couldn’t do and what didn’t work well in the previous game when we start a new title, but there’s no game that I would want to actually change as such. I have to say though, the first Zelda game that I played and felt potential in was Link to the Past. I’m actually very interested in what it would be like if we remade that title as a 3D game“.

Mr. Aonuma also states that he’s constantly thinking about what can be done in the next Zelda title that will surprise gamers. As far as graphics go, he can’t really say what approach the team will take. It depends on what visual style will best work with the story and gameplay. He says that the next Zelda could even end up with a graphical style that we didn’t even think of yet. — Transcribed by Gonintendo

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September’s American video game sales data from NPD is in, for nearly a year the Nintendo DS and Wii were on top, but not the past month. Halo 3 made Xbox 360 sales fly just above the Wii’s and the launch of Halo 3 at the end of September beat out any game with a landslide of 3.3 million sales in America alone!

Video game sales are up 74% to $1.36 billion compared to last year.

Video game hardware overview:
1. Xbox 360 — 527,800
2. Nintendo Wii — 501,000
3. Nintendo DS — 495,800
4. PlayStation Portable — 284,500
5. PlayStation 2 — 215,000
6. PlayStation 3 — 119,400
7. GameBoy Advance — 75,000

Video game software overview top 20:
1. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) — 3.3 million
2. Wii Play with remote (Wii) — 282,000
3. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS) — 224,000
4. Madden NFL 08 (PlayStation 2) — 205,000
5. Skate (Xbox 360) — 175,000
6. Madden NFL 08 (Xbox 360) — 173,000
7. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) — 167,000
8. BioShock (Xbox 360) — 150,000
9. Brain Age 2 (Nintendo DS) — 141,000
10. Heavenly Sword (PlayStation 3) — 139,000

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