Well, you know my story... I've been waiting for a Zelda Special Edition of the Nintendo Switch for years and then finally had to get a plain Switch for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity two months ago, because I simply needed a Nintendo Switch for that game and couldn't wait any longer. I do not regret this choice, except for not maybe getting a Nintendo Switch earlier, but I still was disappointed by Nintendo here, where I've been wondering why they wouldn't take such a chance to finally release a "Sheikah Slate Edition" or whatever.
Maybe it was because they didn't want to do such a thing for a spin-off game. Maybe it was because they didn't have the necessary production capabilities during the pandemic. Or maybe they felt like most Zelda fans already have a Switch and therefore don't want a such Special Edition now.
Well... it's certainly not the latter and it also doesn't seem like production is any issue either, because today Nintendo just announced the next shiny Special Edition bundle for the upcoming Monster Hunter Rise:
Source: Twitter
And on top of this, there is a nice Special Edition Pro Controller for the game as well:
It doesn't have any colored handles, which I personally like to have because they show up like that in the Switch menu as well, but it still looks quite nice, much like the main system.
Also, earlier this month Nintendo has announced a special Mario Red & Blue Edition of the Nintendo Switch, probably as part of the 35th Anniversary celebration:
Source: Twitter
Uh... I can't say I'm a fan of these colors, it looks honestly quite atrocious, but it's certainly something special, because both the dock and the Joy-con grip are fully colored.
Anyway... why does this all feel quite familiar? Right, because we already had Special Edition systems for both Monster Hunter and Super Mario in 2017, see my blogpost from back then. Of course those weren't as special, where the Mario one only had red Joy-cons and that's it. The one for Monster Hunter XX was also only exclusive to Japan. And it's been over three years since then, where fans of Monster Hunter and Super Mario might want something new by now... Or they are disappointed now, because they got a not-so-shiny Special Edition.
Last year we also got Special Editions for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Fortine... And all of this makes you wonder, why there hasn't been one for Zelda in all those years? Doesn't Nintendo love the money of us Zelda fans any longer?
Well, I'm confident that we will be getting one for 35th Anniversary. But then again, I was also hoping that we would be getting one for Breath of the Wild and Link's Awakening and so on, which wasn't the case... So, I won't be surprised, if there still isn't anything available in a year.
Ideally, a Zelda Special Edition will come together with an upgraded Nintendo Switch model, so Zelda fans wouldn't just be getting the thing for the different looks.
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