| spemanig said: Not that I agree with this, because I don't, but someone could easily argue that if they were planning to talk about/announce any 2016 games, they wouldn't omit talking about what has undoubtably become Nintendo's most important 2016 title period, for the explicit reason that they specifically want to focus on 2015 games instead. Like, that doesn't make any sense. I think that you're definitely right, but it completely contradicts their messaging. "We aren't showing this huge 2016 Wii U exclusive we've already shown twice because we want to focus on games that are coming out this year instead. You know, aside from all those 2016 games we're still going to announce." |
If Zelda was releasing before E3 2016, it would be at E3 2015. You can take that to the bank. So it's a 2nd-half 2016 game; in fact, I'm confident it has been pushed all the way back to Holiday 2016.
Think about how much of the game they showed at E3 2014. That is how much of the game they wanted to have shown a year and a half before release. The amount of the game we've currently seen is how much they wanted to have shown under a year before release. Now, suddenly it's almost two years away from release. I don't expect to see much more of it until it is once again under a year away. It seems like they are trying to avoid the mistake they made with Skyward Sword of showing too much too soon. They planned for Zelda's big blow-out to be at E3, 5 months before its release, and that is when its big blow-out will be.
However, they will surely have some games coming out in the first half of 2016. If they want those games to be shown at any E3 conference at all, they'll have to talk about them this year.
