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Panther111 said:

I see this as a possibility... Dont know the release dates of other zelda titles, but is it really so far fetched to believe it may launch in may or summer of 2016? 

By that time they have probably given the game enough polish and implemented the new ideas... Its not like they are starting from scratch. Zelda will sell great regardless of release date.

 

Your thoughts?


I say unlikely. Its not appearing at E3 for a reason and they went out of their way to say that they won't give it a release date whereas it would have been much smarter to just say spring/summer 2016, unless of course they had no idea whether it would actually meet that date. 

To me its a fall 2016 title and they know this, but they're not going to announce that this far in advance because announcing a year long delay is a terrible idea.

Nintendo are also very strategic in their releases, so even if it was done for August they wouldn't release it then unless they had a similarly big holiday title.



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holiday 2016 at the earliest



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Holiday 2016, It's not going to be before E3 2016 anyway.



I think it's possible, and they are missing E3 because they are still on a tight timeline (aiming for early 2016) and can't afford the 1 month delay caused by getting a demo up and running for E3.

However I think it's more likely that it will be a late 2016 release.



If it was releasing in the first half of 2016 than we would see it at this E3, we aren't so it's not coming until Holiday 2016.



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Possible, but my guess goes to holiday 2016



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spemanig said:
Nope. Zelda isn't coming out without appearing playable at an E3, and Zelda isn't coming out after E3 without being a holiday title.

What this guy said. If Zelda was releasing before E3 2016, it would be making an appearance at E3 2015, guaranteed. It has almost certainly been pushed all the way back to Holiday 2016.



spemanig said:
Nope. Zelda isn't coming out without appearing playable at an E3, and Zelda isn't coming out after E3 without being a holiday title.

This. The fact that they aren't showing it at E3 likely means some of the ideas they want to implement are going to majorly change the game in a way that would make it difficult to show a proper trailer or even give a title/story info yet. Either that or they're doing the dual-release thing on NX for holiday 2016. Either way, I think the delay is automatically a year. 

I'd LOVE to be wrong though. 

I guess it's possible that they are skipping E3 so they don't have to waste ANY development time on trailers or demos yet, and then maybe they could do a Zelda-focused Direct at the end of the year and annouce it will be releasing in Spring 2016. That'd be awesome. But I'm not holding my breath for that. 



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I think that will released on September 2016...



November 2016, as the last big exclusive on Wii U. Let's face it.



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