The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Launches May 12, 2023 for Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 September 2022 / 5,280 Views
Nintendo during today's Nintendo Direct announced the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be titled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and will launch for the Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023.
View the release date trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
In addition to the vast lands of Hyrule, the latest entry in the storied Legend of Zelda series will take you up into the skies and an expanded world that goes beyond that! Look forward to Link’s massive adventure starting again when The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, drops for Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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That scared me. For a second I thought it was coming out in December. The American date format makes no sense. lol
I'm Canadian and British, both nationalities. We all SPEAK in the American form, it is the most prevalent. Today is September 13th, 2022 is how I speak. In Britain I write Day Month Year, so I write 13-09-2022. Where this gets hilarious is that because in Canada there are multiple competing formats, you can't tell which one is which for example for July 4th: 07-04-2022 or 04-07-2022 is not clear which date is intended. The person reading doesn't know if you mean April 7, or not.
So how was it fixed? In Canada the actual STANDARD is unique, it is year first. 2022-07-04. That way there is no possibility of confusion. There is no such thing as year then day then month. The problem is not a single person uses the Standard or is comfortable with it, unless they are engaged in cross border trade where it is very useful. Because nobody speaks it that way, and it is a pain to write it differently than you speak it. It's for computer systems.
Canada is bilingual, so we never actually use our own Standard. Why? Because the French use the British International style so you have to think about Quebec. So my Canadian passport for example uses the British/French date format, even though it isn't the official year/month/day Canadian format. So it is a mess. Because in no way do the French Canadians want to use the Canadian standard NOR the American standard.
I like when I am in the United States, it isn't a mess like in Canada. It is always month/day/year for me, because that is the way we speak, not the way we write. So make them the same as the standard and you have no problems. I wish we'd just switch to the American style and be done with it.
switch will sell millions. switch 2 will sell millions again!
Good name, cool trailer but they torment me with its shortness.
Showed little but i love the tone of the game. A bit curious of how they will reuse the same map fr. But yea, can't wait to discover the lore of this Zonai tribe.
LET'S GO!!!!
Also, please Nintendo don't require finding 900 korok seeds to 100% the game :) here's the list of things I did in BotW
Completed all 120 shrines
Completed the main story
Completed all 4 divine beasts
Found all memories
Completed all side quests
Discovered all locations
Completed entire Compendium
Completion percentage: 35% xD
That percentage on the map actually only references the map itself. On my latest playthrough I got 60% with 250 korok seeds, 80 shrines, maybe half of all the side quests and not completed main story.
To get 100% you need to literally get every single name on the map like bridges and stuff.
Dammit i still need to finish the first one! +100hrs in and only beat the first beast xD
hahaha this is my problem with open world games Like i could be playing GTA beating up hookers and stealing cars, roaming playing +100hrs in and probably didnt even reach my first mission lol Yea in botw I've been hitting up all the shrines and doing whatever side quest that comes my way lol And yea i've been enjoying the scenery as I glide from one mountain to the next. But now I guess i have a deadline to finish botw before next May :D
Love the name!!!
Tears of the Kingdom has an epic ring to it.
The real question now is has the GOTY for 2023 already been decided. ?
-C'MON, IT'S ZELDA... NINJA APPROVED-
Thankfully I have plenty to look forward to while waiting for this. It's gonna be awesome.
Game looks awesome. I like the name.
I find it funny how there were people in the livechat thinking it's December 5th.
Well, it is always confusing with those those month/day format :)
But right after they showed the "Thank you for watching the Nintendo Direct 09.13.2022" which confirmed the format used ahah
Lousy Smarch weather!
If only botw was as grand as elden ring. It was lacking on the boss fights. Hopefully the next zelda is bigger.
Forget which games you are interested in and forget hype. Look at the actual trailer quality of this direct and that's the problem I had, the TRAILERS sucked.
Octopath 2 was the only trailer that looked interesting to me. Like I actually wanted to watch the trailer. I won't be watching the Zelda trailer over and over.
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