DélioPT said:
Soundwave said:
DélioPT said:
They don`t have another system seller like Zelda, for next year.
A delay would leave the last quarter without a title to really sell the Wii U - against Halo 5 or Uncharted 4, for exemple.
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The Wii U is not really competing against those platforms in a real sense (go ahead and try to convince a PS4/XB1 buyer at any store to buy a Wii U instead).
Wii U is going to sell 17-20 million no matter what, the only thing that would change that is a miracle like Splatoon becoming a Pokemon/Minecraft sized break out hit or something, not like the next installment of a 30-year-old IP.
Especially by the time late 2015 rolls around, Mario Kart 8, Smash, Mario 3D World, Hyrule Warriors, Bayo 2, Xenoblade, DKC, will all have come and gone ... really if you're not impressed enough by then to purchase a Wii U odds are you never were buying one anyway. Between Wind Waker HD, Hyrule Warriors, and Link/Zelda/etc. in Smash and Mario Kart plus Zelda themed amiibos ... most Zelda fans will already have the system (and most Zelda fans tend to like othr Nintendo IP too ... go figure).
I think it's more important that EAD ensure this Zelda is really like GOTY type material and the best Zelda they can possibly make. If it's not ready for 2015, I'd just as well delay it to 2016. Even Wii U owners in the end will only remember how good the game was.
TP and Skyward Sword weren't bad games, but they weren't "legendary" games either IMO, the next Zelda needs to be better, the next Zelda game should be to the Zelda series what Super Mario Galaxy was to the Mario series.
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Wii U will always be competing with the other consoles. Maybe not at the same level, but Nintendo will always try to convince as much people as they can to buy their games, be it Zelda, Smash, MK 8, etc. Those games can have an effect on HW sales.
And even if Wii U doesn`t surpass GC, games like Zelda are needed to make an impact.
GC "started" very well, but ended it`s life like so many Nintendo consoles: without support. Wii U seems to be doing the exact opposite: no real (consistant) support in it`s firt 2 years and now seems to be getting real support.
Of course, without 3rd parties, it will be hard to pull ahead of the GC.
System sellers will always have an effect for latecomers who only only later decide/want to buy a Wii U or can only buy a cheaper Wii U or really are expecting one of the big names to say: "ok, now it`s time to get one. I got all that i wanted".
WW is not a new game and HW is not a true Zelda game.
I`m not saying that the game shouldn`t be delayed even if there`s a good reason to do so.
But if you can`t get another holiday title of the same caliber, delaying Zelda will really hurt sales of the game and of Wii U aswell, in a time where Nintendo consoles usually do very well.
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