Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom won’t get DLC: Nintendo confirms

Nintendo shut the door on DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in a Famitsu interview published in September 2023, putting an end to hopes for a big expansion.

In that September 2023 interview, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said the team had already exhausted its ideas for this version of Hyrule, so Nintendo is moving on. That also hints that the open-world “Wilds era” may be getting close to the end.

That puts Tears of the Kingdom in a very different spot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which received two major expansion packs. And that’s despite Tears of the Kingdom having a massive world, plenty of room for more story and new systems, and more than 18.5 million copies in its first two months. Breath of the Wild has sold more than 29 million too, according to Nintendo’s sales figures. Still, you shouldn’t expect new story chapters, extra dungeons, or any major gameplay DLC, only smaller add-ons like the Mineru’s Construct amiibo extras.

If you were still holding out for a big post-launch expansion, this is Nintendo’s final answer. At this point, it makes more sense to look ahead to whatever comes next for Zelda, whether that means sticking with the Wilds formula or going back to something more traditional. You can still pick up Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch.