GDC: Zelda DS, Genesis Games for Revolution Revealed

Nintendo Revolution

Nintendo has announced a new cell-shaded Legend of Zelda game for the DS which will be released alongside Twilight Princess. Nintendo also revealed that their next console (still officially codenamed Revolution) will be able to download games from the Sega Genesis and Turbo Grafx library to the Revolution’s “virtual console.”

Speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Nintendo prexy Satoru Iwata revealed the new details during his keynote speech.  Eurogamer.net has an excellent play-by-play of the event.

The new Zelda, titled The Phantom Hourglass, will be the spiritual sequel to Wind Waker, with 3-D cell-shaded graphics but a top-down perspective and 2-D gameplay like earlier incarnations of the series.

The keynote featured the Nintendo DS’s line of “brain training” games, which have been a huge hit in Japan and will be released soon in the States.