| Khuutra said: There's actually not a lot I need to reply to, but I will refer to one point: We will be lucky, blesst, if the next 3DS Zelda takes a long time to come out. As I'm confident in OoT being handled by a secondary or tertiary studio, I can live with the next 3DS Zelda taking a long time to come out. Ditto the Zelda for the Wii's successor. I want time to savor its absence, to build up anticipation, to be assured that the ancient Nintendo adage where time equates to craft is being fulfilled. |
After you've reached a certain point, I don't think you can equate time to quality. When that point arrives though, I have no idea, as I'm not a developer. But you can't say that the second year spent on a game will be as productive as the first, and so on. Spending 10 years on a game won't make it so much better than if you only spent 2 years on it.
Well then again, we have to wait for Duke Nukem Forever to come out to answer that question I suppose. Maybe I'm all wrong!
Lets say the new Zelda game's development isn't being impeded by OoT 3DS, and it's ripe and ready to come out next year. Nintendo decides that it doesn't want to over-saturate their market and they hold the game back simply because they feel the Zelda market is satiated for the time being. It would make perfect business sense, but it would make me sad, :( Because I'm definitely not one of the ones satiated by OoT 3DS.
I'm actually the opposite of you in that I'm trying to not build up anticipation for new Zelda games, simply because I know my expectations will evolve until they surpass what the game could ever achieve, and I am left with disappointment when I play it. It's happened enough times for me to never want to make the mistake again. I do hope that the future Zelda games meet your expectations however!
On the other hand, I do agree that we need resting time between new Zeldas in order to bring up our appetite, and that's exactly what I'm afraid Nintendo is going to do - hold back Zelda 3DS because the market is satiated by a 15 year old upgraded port of OoT. A game people like me have played to death already and want something new.
