Erik Aston on 18 December 2008
| scottie said: You assume that there are only 2 days in the year on which Zelda Wii could be announced - E3 or that October conference. Why not announce in August for a November release? 3 months between announcement and release, as with Mario Kart. Also, he didn't say that it wouldn't be announced at E3, just that it might not be |
Mario Kart was announced at E3 2007 and released in April of this year.
I expect that Zelda is the type of game they would want to give a little longer time period to build hype before release.
6 or 8 months is probably more like it for Zelda. I don't think that's so early that the hype would get out of control.
Of course, this is all speculation. It isn't like Nintendo is being consistent about this. If they're trying to establish a new pattern, we haven't seen it enough to know how it goes yet.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
