Analysis: Did the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild trailer just tease an NX controller?

By Hugh Langley

Nintendo has revealed a kick-ass trailer for the new Zelda game, and even christened it with a name – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The trailer alone has plenty to sink your teeth into, but that’s just a fraction of what Nintendo is showing off at E3. There is, however, one particular moment of the video I want to talk about.

At around the two-minute mark of the trailer we see Link using a big glowing horseshoe-shaped item called a Magnesis Rune to pick up a plank of wood.

“Just a cool new item from the game,” you’re probably thinking, and indeed that’s probably all it is. But what if there’s a bit more to it? What if this is actually a hint at something on the Nintendo NX which the game will also be launching on?

In April, we wrote about a horseshoe-shaped controller than Nintendo had patented in 2014, when the company was teasing its Quality of Life program. Here it is:

I mention Quality of Life because the patent makes specific references to fitness, and it’s possible that this is all it was to be used for – until …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming