Did you actually play Wind Waker, Fox?

When I first saw screenshots for the game, I thought it looked really stupid. Stills really don't do the style justice. I played the game. Then I kept playing it, until I beat it. It has style and pretty oozing out of its pores.

It's cartoony. It's about animation. Pause a well-done animated film sometime and see how goofy everything looks.

.swf support has been suggested before, but don't expect it to happen. Even aside from it being a proprietary format, it's a little silly to have support for a full-on animation and scripting library inside of a full-on game library. It's a little redundant, don't you think? ;)

As for animated .gifs... well. The same argument doesn't apply, because .gifs are not scripted but... why? Is there really any compelling reason to use an animated gif when you could just do the animation yourself?

I think it's more likely that we'll get support for real movie formats. But even that, I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.