Eiji Aonuma is excited to bring The Legend of Zelda to 3DS.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/23775
In an interview from the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine UK, Eiji Aonuma speaks on the possible enhancements that 3D technology could bring to the Ocarina of Time remake for 3DS.
Aonuma states that 3D, in combination with the 3DS's other new elements, are a perfect fit for the Zelda series. He gives visual depth in riding through vistas and more accurate distance between enemies during combat as examples. In terms of 3D gameplay, he says that integration will be dependent on the effects of a number of factors, such as whether it makes players tired, or causes them to spend long periods of time in front of their systems.
A trailer of the opening sequence to Ocarina of Time for 3DS was shown at the E3 2010 Nintendo Roundtable. The full interview from this month's issue of ONM also goes in-depth about Skyward Sword, and mentions that the game takes place before Ocarina of Time. The magazine is on UK store shelves now.
I'm sure Nintendo is eager to bring anything to 3DS that will net them a whole lot of money, especially when they don't have to put the resources into actually making a new game. -_-'And I'm sure they're eager to make new killer apps to sell the system. A mix of both would be ideal.
WiiWare can't do 3D.
I don't see a whole lot of meaningful reasoning for this remake or that of Star Fox 64. This will probably see release relatively close to Skyward Sword - a few months later maybe - which makes the project seem redundant to me, but c'est la vie.
They're great old games to be sure, but when you're launching your new hardware I do expect to see new games from their maker.
If everybody here is done being a worrywort filled with mindless nerd rage, they might want to actually look at the games Nintendo has announced for the 3DS and notice precisely 2 out of 9 are "ports" and the rest are new games, either in their series or completely new like Steel Diver.
