More like many people were wondering if Zelda wasn't going to be delayed anyway, and now looking at their potential 2015 roster, they have a pretty full potential lineup even without Zelda. It's open to speculation. It's not like they absolutely *need* the game for next year now. 

he's saying that you think LoZ is being delayed because we have announcement of an arcade game (though it should be a wii u title later) which is basically means that now its up for debate? (in other words what brings up LoZ in all of this???)

I mean look at your line up in the opening, Nintendo is obviously going to announce a couple more games next year for 2015, so does that automatically  mean for every game confirmed for 2015 that another title is pushed back another year? There is FE x SMT that should be releasing next year, so i guesx that means Kirby must be getting delayed?

C'mon now :'-(

I'd like to point out that I called it literally minutes before it happened!!!!!!!!!!!

I think if Wii U sales drop back to a poor baseline after the usual holiday bump this fall, I think Nintendo is going to kinda "call it" with the Wii U ... as in it's a dead man walking as a console. 

A smart company knows how to manage its assets properly, wasting the most expensive Nintendo game ever made on the lowest Nintendo userbase ever (outside of the Virtual Boy) is probably not something Nintendo is eagerly keen on. 

If the Wii U looks like a sinking ship no matter what Nintendo throws at it (and they should know for sure after next year's holiday push -- if Mario Kart, 3D World, Smash, and amiibo still can't get it to sell well outside of short burts, then Zelda U sure as hell is not going to), then I think Nintendo will start to look at this as a strong option. 

1.5-2 million even in extra sales is nothing to scoff at, that probably covers the entire game's dev budget, leaving the rest of the sales as pure profit. 

I don't think SMT x Fire Emblem is coming in 2015. I'm not even sure if its coming to Wii U to be honest. That could one of the games switched over somewhere else. That just seems to cry out as a project that would get 3-4x higher sales were it to be released on a handheld platform, especially seeing Fire Emblem Awakening's sales on the 3DS. 

It was after the fact, but we found out that several GameCube projects for example got purposely shifted to Wii, Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Fire Emblem. No doubt Nintendo saw the writing on the wall for the GameCube platform. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if a similar thing happens to the Wii U which is selling even worse. 

More like many people were wondering if Zelda wasn't going to be delayed anyway, and now looking at their potential 2015 roster, they have a pretty full potential lineup even without Zelda. It's open to speculation. It's not like they absolutely *need* the game for next year now. 

I don't even think Zelda U really plays that integral of a role in the Wii U's ultimate fate ... that will largely be decided before. If MK8, 3D World, NSMBU, and Smash U can't get the system to sell above GameCube levels, then really Zelda U isn't going to either. 

Yes holidays generally mean bigger sales, but moving it into the launch window of a new Nintendo handheld launch would also likely buoy its net sales for 30-60% extra if not more. 

It's a logical scenario, much like moving Twilight Princess to Wii did make a lot of sense, mind you Nintendo at that time had no idea the Wii was even going to be such a huge seller and there were a lot of people initially upset by that decision, but really in the long run it just made way more financial sense.