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Nintendo has announced an "Expansion Pass" for Breath of the Wild, offering the first ever DLC in a main series Legend of Zelda

A new Cave of Trials challenge

Hard mode

"A new feature for the in-game map"

A new dungeon

A new "original story"

Additional challenges

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Available from March 3 for $19.99 USD / £17.99 (Australian price unknown at time of writing), the Expansion Pass, which will be available for both the Wii U and Nintendo Switch versions of the game, will offer two extra content packs, to be released later in 2017, neither of which can be purchased individually. The details of each are:Purchasing the Expansion Pass will also immediately unlock three extra treasure chests in the game's Great Plateau location. Two will contain "useful items" while, more unusually, the third will include a "a shirt with a Nintendo Switch logo which Link can wear during his adventure".Series producer Eiji Aonuma has also created a video to explain the Expansion Pass (above), in which he explains that the aim is to offer more for those who have finished the main game to play well after release.Breath of the Wild will be released for Wii U and Nintendo Switch on March 3, along with the Switch console itself.

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