Nintendo Confirms There Will Be More Remakes After Ocarina Of Time

There Will Be More Nintendo Remakes, And Fans Want Majora’s Mask And Super Mario 64 Next Published Nov 6, 2026, 5:58 AM EST Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Sign in to your TheGamer account Nintendo has never really been a stranger to retooling its older, more popular games and putting them on modern platforms. However, this year, starting with Star Fox, it feels like the definition of what a remake is has changed at Nintendo, and according to a senior vice president at the studio, those remakes are going to be at Nintendo’s core alongside its new releases moving forward. The Nintendo Remakes Will Continue In an interview with Polygon, Nintendo’s SVP of product development and publishing Nate Bihldorff detailed just how important remakes are to the studio in the present day. “I do think that new games and remakes both have a place in the Nintendo stable, of equal importance, to be honest,” Bihldorff said, so we can almost certainly expect to see more of them moving forward. “There’s also a deep satisfaction in revisiting games that were very, very special, like Ocarina of Time... But it’s also important to think about how many people had never played the original, and for them, the remake of Ocarina of Time is going to be an absolutely brand-new, 2026 experience,” Bihldorff continued. Ocarina’s remake was released yesterday, five months after a Star Fox remaster with a similar scope launched exclusively on Switch 2. It’s those two games that have seemingly kickstarted a new remake era for Nintendo. Nintendo has pulled games from its past and put remasters and remakes of them on newer consoles before. Super Mario RPG on Switch, Metroid Prime’s remaster felt closer to a remake, and this isn’t the first time Ocarina has been lifted off of the N64 and given a fresh coat of paint, as there’s a different version of the game already available on Nintendo 3DS. Star Fox And Ocarina Of Time Are A Different Brand Of Remake This year’s remakes feel different, though. Not only have they been rebuilt, but they carry the games’ original names. No remaster or remake label, not even a note in their titles about them being on Switch 2. They are simply those games now to Nintendo. Just newer and aimed at an entirely new generation of fans, many of whom weren’t even born when they were originally released. Confirmation that there will seemingly be more remakes to come has naturally got fans making requests. Majora’s Mask may well be the game that has been mentioned the most so far. A sequel to Ocarina of Time that was developed quickly because it used a lot of the same assets; it seems almost guaranteed that someone, somewhere at Nintendo is already working on that. ​​Super Mario 64 is another game fans are asking for a lot when it comes to remakes. We’ve had Star Fox and Ocarina; if Mario 64 is added to the remake pile, then that just leaves Super Smash Bros. Melee as the only game without a modern-day remake on the Mt. Rushmore of N64 games. There will be some Mario 64 fans who won’t be happy if that’s on Nintendo’s list of potential remakes. The kind of fans who get rather upset when you dare suggest it isn’t already a perfect game. Although now that they’ve seen how good a job Nintendo has done with Ocarina, I wonder if some of those fans might have been won over by the idea of the 3D platformer that started it all and inspired countless games, getting remade for modern audiences.