Nintendo will eventually make another hardware platform. And there will eventually be another Zelda game for it. Neither are 100% confirmed, of course, but both are some of the safest bets anyone could make. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has now discussed, at a high level, what Nintendo's designers think about when tackling new hardware.

Speaking to Polygon, Aonuma--who has worked on the Zelda series for decades and has been part of the team during multiple console transitions--laid out some of the areas that Nintendo focuses on.

He said Nintendo's designers think about things like, "'What can we do that's new? 'What will we be able to do?' 'What kind of new themes will we be able to explore?'"