Chatting with the Japanese newspaper Asahi, big wig has confirmed that the eagerly anticipated will be released by the end of this very year.

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What remains unclear is whether this tentative scheduling only covers or the rest the world too, but it does make a full unveiling sooner rather than later seem very likely. E3, perhaps?

Nintendo had in the past refused to be drawn on a 2010 launch for the next Zelda (first mooted at E3 2009), but this news from the president himself seems fairly concrete.

2010 it is. More news soon, we hope.

By Luke Guttridge