I'm tired of "the Miyamoto quote"

[Samus Aran]

Carl2291 said:

Samus Aran said:

Majora's Mask: one year development time - one of the best Zelda games

Skyward Sword: 5 year development cycle and delayed many times - the worst Zelda game ever.

ALBW: probably a short development cycle considering the overworld is a copy and paste job - the best Zelda game ever.

Development for Link Between Worlds started in 2011, the game released late 2013.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/24/the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-the-past-2-has-been-in-the-works-since-2011/

Considering that Ocarina 3D released in the Summer of 2011, we can assume that a bunch of people moved straight onto the development of ALBW and the full team moved onto it shortly after Skyward Sword released in November 2011. A Link Between Worlds was probably in development for over 2 Years time, which fits in with other recent handheld LoZ outings. Phantom Hourglass released mid 2007, Spirit Tracks released late 2009.

OoT 3D was made by Grezzo and supervised by an unrelated Nintendo EAD studio (the ones behind the first Galaxy).

The Zelda team had no hand in these remakes (besides Aunoma).