| Mr.GameCrazy said: Unless Nintendo decides to announce more details about NX this year instead of next year, I doubt that NX will be coming next year launching with the upcoming Zelda game. |
They can't really show NX this year unless they want N3DS and Wii U sales (already fragile as is) to go completely down the crapper.
And that's why they can't show Zelda at this E3 ... they can't very well show an NX-focused game before showing the NX itself.
My guess is too that Aonuma saw the work other Nintendo teams are already doing on the NX and said "we need to get in on this", and the sales side at Nintendo was probably already pushing for this all along. It will sell more copies this way and give Nintendo a sure fire killer app for the NX launch, which means they can really now focus efforts on making sure the post-launch period is good (which is where both the 3DS and Wii U fell apart).
There likely was very little resistance to the idea from Nintendo's POV ... it's win-win for them.
Yeah sure a few fans on message boards will throw a anger fit, but they'll get over it ... come November 2006 no one was complaining about Twilight Princess getting moved really. People get over these things.
