Maybe (and I hope not) but maybe he's thinking about incorporating the gamepad screen a little more actively. As in, using it as a kind of alternate pair of eyes. So, the player would hold it up and be able to see a spirit (or something) that is invisible on the tv screen. Or using it to see a...
Aonuma recently mentioned that he wanted to subvert our expectations of an open world. Can anyone guess what he might be hinting at?
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