Zelda devs discuss how they feel about the series' timeline and if they pay a lot of attention to it

The Zelda timeline is all over the place. It's a frustrating topic for fans, but how do the developers feel? Do they have intent to continue on with the timeline, or will they simply focus on making fun Zelda games? Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and series producer Eiji Aonuma talked to GamesRadar about the topic.

HF: "I wouldn't say that we're not concerned with the timeline. It's obviously something that we know is very important to people, and they do a lot of research on. But I think at this point, we're not really at the stage where we want to talk about where Breath of the Wild is in the timeline. I think, as with the pixelated food, it's something that at this point we want to leave up to people's imaginations."

EA: "We published a book with the timeline, but we definitely got comments from users saying, 'Is this really accurate? I think this should be this way. It's different.' And history is always kind of imaginative. It's left to the person who writes the book. So that's how we approach it as well. It's not necessarily that we come up with a game and think, 'Oh, this is where it fits in the timeline.' Honestly, lately, we're kind of scared to say exactly where things are in the timeline for that reason. But we like to leave things to the imagination most of the time."