--- description: Nintendo unveiled a new trailer for 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' for Wii U and Nintendo Switch at The Game Awards. title: New 'Legend of Zelda Trailer Teases The Broader World image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35c28517fd69193d/698897b7cd1bbaece2701187/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # New _The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild_ Trailer Teases the Broader World by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2016 3:13 AM CUT  Nintendo by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2016 3:13 AM CUT It’s subtitled “Life in Ruins,” but the vistas in the latest _The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild_ trailer look more like postcards from an impressionist painter. Nintendo’s action-adventure for Wii U and forthcoming Nintendo Switch console is due sometime next year. But most of the footage we’ve seen to date centers on an area generally referred to as “the plateau” and focuses on some of the activities longstanding series protagonist Link might get up to. Cooking, fighting, chopping down trees, surfing on his shield and [climbing pretty much everything](http://time.com/4365659/zelda-breath-of-the-wild/ "undefined"). The new trailer, which debuted during the pre-show for [The Game Awards](http://thegameawards.com "undefined") at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Dec. 1, takes the camera for a tour of other places. Like seasonal forests, long stony bridges near cliffside perimeters, strange dragon-headed outposts at dusk and sleepy-looking hamlets with elaborate terraced gardens. There’s also a bit of Link looking resolute as enemies threaten and a few faceless glimpses (well, presumptively) of the eponymous Zelda. Nintendo followed up later in the show with a 4 minute clip of Nintendo Treehousers Bill Trinen and Nate Bilhdorff going on a quest in the game for a shrine. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/"},"headline":"New The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Trailer Teases the Broader World","datePublished":"2016-12-02T03:13:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:50:46.842Z","description":"And what may be a glimpse of the series namesake","url":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","Nintendo","Trailers","Wii U","the legend of zelda","zelda","nintendo switch"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35c28517fd69193d/698897b7cd1bbaece2701187/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35c28517fd69193d/698897b7cd1bbaece2701187/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"zelda-breath-of-the-wild-3","caption":"","creditText":"Nintendo","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/","name":"New The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Trailer Teases the Broader World"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Legend of Zelda_ Breath of the Wild – Let’s Play Video","description":"The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Let's Play","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BjLeBJo1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-02T14:42:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BjLeBJo1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/","duration":"PT4M6S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4588464/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-trailer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```