The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild proves Nintendo is so over dual-screen gaming

The new The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild is generating a lot of buzz at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the largest gaming shows of the year, for its open-world take on the classic fantasy series. But one thing it’s not doing is using the Wii U’s second screen.

This might not sound like a huge surprise. We already know that Breath of the Wild is also coming to Nintendo’s next system, the code-named NX home console. We know nothing about it right now other than it’s coming in March 2017. Unless the NX is also going to have a tablet controller (which, considering how poorly the Wii U has performed, always seemed doubtful), it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for Nintendo to have gameplay elements in the new Zelda that require a second screen.