Nintendo päätti oman E3-esityksensä julkistukseen, jonka mukaan The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild II on työn alla.
Kotakulle antamassaan haastattelussa Nintendon Eiji Aonuma on paljastanut, että suunnitelmat alkuperäisen Breath of the Wildin laajennuksille kasvoivat liian suuriksi. Lopulta oli helpompaa tehdä päätös täysimittaisesta jatko-osasta.
"When we released the DLC for Breath of the Wild, we realized that this is a great way to add more elements to the same world. But when it comes down to technical things, DLC is pretty much data—you're adding data to a preexisting title. And so when we wanted to add bigger changes, DLC is not enough, and that's why we thought maybe a sequel would be a good fit.
(...)Initially we were thinking of just DLC ideas, but then we had a lot of ideas and we said, "This is too many ideas, let's just make one new game and start from scratch.""