The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: Echoes of Wisdom Sells 3.91 Million Units

[S.Peelman]

Pavolink said:

Yep, and Iwata said something similar. Both comments during the E3 week. As far as I remember, they believe showing WWHD+ALBW+Zelda U would be too much and hype for WWHD will deflat as people will look forward for Zelda U.

I think this is basically what happened in 2011. If I remember Skyward Sword was kind of overlooked because they showed the WiiU Zelda tech-demo. Which was awesome and way more hyped then SS. They probably didn't want to make the same mistake twice...