curl-6 said:
Cheebee said:
I refuse to believe Nintendo would be anywhere close to capable of producing a ground-up mainline HD Zelda within 3 years (assuming they started development immediately after Skyward Sword came out by the end of 2011).
SS took them 5 years on hardware they'd been familiar with for almost a decade (Wii's architecture was very similar to GameCube's).
Considering just how much trouble they've had adapting to HD development (hence the constant and omnipresent delays of their Wii U titles), and how a significant part of the Zelda dev team has had their hands full with ALBW for a long while, I cannot see a full-blown Wii U Zelda coming anytime before Q4 2015, at the very earliest.
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This, pretty much.
If it took them 3 years and 3 months to make Tropical Freeze, imagine how long a HD Zelda will take. This is Nintendelay we're talking about.
Sorry to be a buzzkill, I just can't see it happening so soon.
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1) Iwata and Aonuma did both mention (probably during one of the Iwata Asks that served as a Skyward Sword postmortem), that they wanted the next console Zelda to take less than 5 years.
2) Retro Studios was sidetracked by work on Mario Kart 7.
