Why do Zelda Console games take 5 years to develop.... ?

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Jon-Erich said:

ihatefatkatz said:
Ambition and Aonuma self-consumed with beating the previous zelda with the new zelda

This.

Aonuma was with the Zelda team when Shigeru Miyamoto was still running it. He had a great teacher. He was part of that older generation of Japanese developers from the 80's who were very ambitious towards their games. This ambition kept them ahead of everyone else for almost two decades. Then something happened. Attitudes changed. There are still ambitious individuals, like the ones who are having success with their Kickstarters. The companies themselves lost that ambition along the way and that's where we get modern day Sega, modern day Capcom, and modern day Konami. While Nintendo has MANY problems of their own, I'm just glad that Nintendo's management lets Aonuma make his games the way a Japanese developer or any developer should make their games: with passion, ambition, and with pride in a great product.

So ambitious to copy paste A Link to the Past and base his new game in one he admitted never finished.