The New Zelda Title Apparently Has A “Game Engine” Link With Splatoon 3

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We don’t often hear much about the game engines behind the latest Nintendo releases, but today is a little different with some news about the new Switch title The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

According to dataminer OatmealDome (via GoNintendo), this new release is running on a Nintendo engine iteration dubbed “ModuleSystem”, and is the same build powering titles like Splatoon 3 and Nintendo Switch Sports.

“The best name we have for it so far is “ModuleSystem”…in terms of the [Tears of the Kingdom] internals, it looks quite different compared to Breath of the Wild.”

It goes to show just how versatile Nintendo’s game engines can be – jumping from online team-based experiences to a gyro-focused game and then the open-world gameplay of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

This isn’t the only thing the new Zelda and Splatoon games have in common. Last weekend, Nintendo held a special Zelda-themed Splatfest where Power, Courage and Wisdom duked it out. In the end “Team Power” won. You can learn more about this event in our previous story:

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