Nintendo creative boss Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed why a new Zelda game for Wii U wasn't shown at E3 2012.

A Legend of Zelda game is in develpment for the Wii U, but only at the research stage, according to series creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

"With the last game, Skyward Sword, that was a game where you had motion control to use your weapons and a lot of different items, and I thought that was a lot of fun," Miyamoto told EW.

"But there were some people who weren't able to do that or didn't like it as much and stopped playing partway through it."

Zelda was glimpsed during Nintendo's Wii U reveal at last year's E3, but a Zelda title was never officially announced for the console; Miyamoto stressed that the new game would feature 'evolved' controls.

"We're in the phase where we're looking back at what's worked very well and what has been missing and how can we evolve it further," he added.

"We're seeing how the way that tastes are broadening in video games and you have some people who prefer more casual experiences, and you have some people who prefer sort of those more in-depth experiences. Obviously, as a company that's been making games for a very long time, we tend to be more on the deeper, longer game side of things. But really what we continue to ask ourselves as we have over the years is, 'What is the most important element of Zelda if we were to try to make a Zelda game that a lot of people can play?'"

A formal reveal for Zelda on the Wii U could be some time away though, Miyamoto hinted.

"We have a number of different experiments going on, and [when] we decide that we've found the right one of those to really help bring Zelda to a very big audience, then we'll be happy to announce it."

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[via NowGamer]