The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW) update , released on April 25, 2019, was much more than a simple patch. While officially marketed for Nintendo Labo VR support, it secretly delivered massive technical improvements to the Nintendo Switch. 1. The Secret Performance Boost: Faster Load Times
The following is a draft of the patch notes and technical breakdown for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Version 1.6.0 , which was officially released on April 25, 2019. botw update 1.6.0
If you own save data from Tears of the Kingdom on the same console, a new Travel Gate has appeared at the northeast edge of the Great Plateau. It doesn't lead to a new dungeon. It leads to a static, view-only diorama of the Tears Sky Islands, with a text box reading: “The Upheaval has not yet come. But the soil remembers.” The Secret Performance Boost: Faster Load Times The
For context, the last official major update for Breath of the Wild was Version 1.5.0, released back in December 2017. That patch introduced support for The Champion’s Ballad DLC and added the travel medallion. Since then, the game has largely remained untouched by Nintendo, preserved in its "complete" state on both Wii U and Switch. It leads to a static, view-only diorama of
Shigeru Miyamoto famously keeps a notebook of things he wishes he had fixed. A source at Nintendo of America (speaking anonymously to preserve their job) claims Miyamoto personally signed off on this patch after replaying the game in 2025 and being annoyed by a single frame drop during the final memory.
This breaks the game’s original memory limitations, suggesting Nintendo has recompiled the entire inventory engine for modern Switch hardware (or the Switch 2).
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