Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 – will it be out this year or not? (pic: Nintendo)

Hopes that Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 will be out this year have taken a knock, as an insider hints at a possible new Mario Kart.

When Nintendo announced a sequel to The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, at the end of their E3 Direct last year, it was a very welcome surprise to fans everywhere.

What wasn’t a surprise though is that they never really said anything about it, including its real name and when it’ll be out.

Since it uses the existing Breath Of The Wild world as a base it’s always been assumed that the game would be out relatively quickly, with recent rumour suggesting maybe even this Christmas. But one insider claims that’s not the case.


Botw2 taking longer than anticipated back during e3 2019, so it doesn’t seem to be this year’s holiday release, which adds more credence to the major title I was referencing on a tweet the other day. Neither are set in stone yet so take some salt. The more likely one has.. tires — Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) January 31, 2020



Internet rumourmonger Sabi has a good record on Nintendo info and claims that Breath Of The Wild 2 is ‘taking longer than anticipated’ and ‘doesn’t seem to be’ on his year’s Christmas release schedules for Nintendo.

Sabi is careful to point out there is still a chance of a 2020 release but also mentions a second ‘major title’ that may replace it in Nintendo’s plans, something that has ‘tires’ (i.e. tyres).

Nintendo’s only major franchise involving wheeled vehicles is Mario Kart, and technically Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is just a Wii U port, but it would still be surprising if they released Mario Kart 9 as the current game is still selling extremely well.

In terms of other Nintendo racing games, F-Zero vehicles don’t have any wheels and things like Excite Bike and Stunt Race FX don’t really count as ‘major’.

But maybe it could be some sort of Mario Kart spin-off or Mario Kart 8.5? Something involving as many Nintendo franchises as Super Smash Bros., perhaps?

Whatever’s going on, Sabi seems more confident that the earlier prediction of a new Paper Mario game on Switch is accurate. Although as with any of this there’s no clue as to when Nintendo might announce any of it officially.

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