curl-6 said:
DevilRising said:
If it doesn't, it doesn't, but I really don't understand some of you folks claiming that it ABSOLUTELY will not release in 2014. I still think it's a very strong possibility that it comes out late 2014, perhaps even December.
Some of you seem to be assuming that they didn't start development until after WWHD and/or ALBW was finished, which isn't true at all. It's been in development since shortly after SS was finished all the way back in 2011. That means as of this moment it has been in development for around 2 years, and by the time fall 2014 rolls around, it will have had a good 3 years in development, which is more than enough time. Combine that with the fact that the smaller teams that were working on WWHD and ALBW have since been absorbed into the main Zelda U team now that those games are finished, and the rumor that this is the largest development team Nintendo has ever assembled working on this new Zelda..........and yes.
That all pretty much adds up to the very strong possibility of it being a 2014 title. So bet all you want, proclaim all you want. Just don't act too shocked when they announce it for late 2014. Why? Because they need all the big titles they can get, and that one might arguably be the biggest, depending on which direction they take it in. |
Skyward Sword also had the largest dev team of any Nintendo game ever when it was made, but still took 5 years.
And even if they try to step up the pace this time, HD development takes longer than Wii-level development.
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I feel like I'm becoming a fanboy of the idea that Zelda will launch in 2014... Oh dear... well back to fanboying...
SS had a LOT of newer things that developers probably had to spend a lot of extra time, resources, and people on; a brand new art style (TP in many ways was a slightly darker but mostly graphically superior version of Ocarina of Time's art style and obviously all the windwaker style games [WW, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks, Phantom Hour Glass] are vastly different), much more advanced control system (first demonstrated with TP, but in a much less advanced way), an actual origin story that was very indepth compared with other Zelda games, and a ton of really interesting game features/concepts that I haven't seen before. In terms of new things introduced to the series, I can't think of a Zelda game that had more new things in it than Skyward Sword, which is why it took so long to make and why they had to have so many people working on it.
