Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma is keeping quiet about the potential of a Majora’s Mask remake. In a recent interview with IGN, Aonuma laughed when asked if fans might see the game remade soon, purposefully leaving his answer open for interpretation.

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“ If they want to interpret my laughter as, ‘yeah, we’re making it’ or ‘no, we’re not,’ I guess that’s really up to them.

“Please write that I laughed,” Aonuma told IGN in response (after, indeed, laughing). "Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read anything into it. But if you want to say that I laughed, I think that would be a good answer."When pressed about how fans should interpret that, Aonuma simply told us, “it’s really up to them. If they want to interpret my laughter as, ‘yeah, we’re making it’ or ‘no, we’re not,’ I guess that’s really up to them.”Majora's Mask was first released on N64 in 2000 and last came to the Wii Virtual Console in 2009. Since Ocarina of Time was remade for 3DS in 2011, the idea of a new version of Majora’s Mask has been highly requested by Nintendo fans, and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto told IGN at E3 that Majora’s Mask fans are “ still in my memory ." offer the Majora’s Mask soundtrack as one of this year’s Club Nintendo Elite Status rewards, though the company wouldn’t comment on what that means for the title’s future. Previously, Miyamoto said Nintendo was debating between Majora’s Mask and an A Link to the Past sequel . Since A Link Between Worlds is coming out in November , whether or not Majora’s Mask will follow is anyone’s guess.Aonuma had much more to say about the future of the Zelda franchise, so be sure to read his thoughts on how revisiting The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker this fall will reshape the future of Zelda , plus three new things we learned about The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds You can find more about the original version of Majora's Mask in our Majora's Mask wiki guide

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