Prediction: Dark Souls 2 will stay the highest rated new game on Metacritic in 2014

[DerNebel]

spemanig said:

DerNebel said:

There's also no evidence for it coming out this year.

There's far more evidence for it than against it. Aonuma has stated that he is shooting for a three year developement cycle with this game and that he thought SS's developement took too long and that he wanted this game's developement time to be shorter. Those are three separate occasions where he said stuff like that. Then you put that together with how they were ready to show the game an entire year ago  that Nintendo has never been above revealing a major title the E3 before the game's Winter release ie SM3DW and DKC:TF and how Nintendo has gone on record saying that they would like to start revealing games much closer to their release dates.

Then you have the one reason against it coming out this year, which is unfounded doubt.

That he said that he wants to do it in 3 years doesn't mean it's that it's going to be that fast, fact is that the last 2 mainline Zelda games took 4 and 5 years each to come out. I have a hard time believing that now in HD (Nintendo themselves pointed out that they were surprised with how difficult HD development was) it is suddenly going to work in 3 years, especially with how many delays Wii U games have experienced since launch.

You can believe what you want, but Aonuma saying that he wants to do it in 3 years is not enough to make me believe in a 2014 release, especially not with Hyrule Warriors releasing this year and them having Smash for the holidays. I guess we'll see next week.