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Nintendo has confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Speaking to Polygon , Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime said that, "from a first-party standpoint, there's no new development coming after the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We really are at the end of life for Wii U.”Last year, Nintendo announced that it would soon end production of Wii U consoles , but had not announced its stance on game development.Fils-Aime made clear that games with online services would still be supported for now: “From our standpoint, sunsetting is quite some time into the future. The ongoing activity from an online standpoint on [Mario] Kart and Splatoon is significant. We're going to continue to support that.”According to a Nintendo document released last year, the only Wii U game unaccounted for is Shigeru Miyamoto's experimental Project Giant Robot, which was listed with a TBD release date Last year, Miyamoto himself said that "Project Giant Robot was something we started as a second project, and unfortunately we haven’t yet decided to turn that into a full game." It seems likely that the game has been scrapped, given that its core conceit revolves around using a second screen to play, something the Nintendo Switch does not offer.Of Nintendo's mainline consoles, the Wii U has sold fewer units than any model in the company's history , and this news all but confirms that that statistic will stay true.

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