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oniyide on 07 April 2014
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curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
Mr Khan said:
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.

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.

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.


3 and half years for a 2d platformer is still too long, especially considering how MK 7 turned out. What were they really doing all that time.

As for Iwata and Aonuma, they say they want a lot of things. DOnt mean nothing. Pretty sure they wanted the Wiiu and to a lesser extent 3ds situations to be better.

They did build a new engine, now I remember.

for which game? DK or MK?