News (January 04, 2000): Some info. you don't know, and some you did.
The man behind Nintendo's best selling titles recently sat down for an interview with Super PLAY, a Swedish gaming magazine. Shigeru Miyamoto answered questions about the Dolphin, and more importantly, the true sequel to Ocarina of Time.
"The Zelda which will be based on a new system compared to Ocarina of Time, you have to wait five years for," said Miyamoto. "We are developing it for the Dolphin right now. But when we discussed it, we concluded that five years is an awfully long time. Those who played Ocarina of Time in college will have graduated when the Dolphin game is released! We think that's a long time. So we wanted to use the existing Ocarina of Time engine and the Expansion Pak to make a sequel to Nintendo 64 in the meanwhile."
Zelda Gaiden will be the last Zelda title using the Ocarina engine, as Miyamoto and staff will be working on a new engine for the Dolphin title. This should come as good news for those who have wanted to know when we would see the Dolphin Zelda.