Zelda U on E3 2016 Sounds Really Odd... Hear Me Out On This!

[DivinePaladin]

Ljink96 said:
No game that was confirmed to be released in 2015 ends up being delayed with no release date in sight simply because they found more things to implement into the game. It is gonna be on NX in some shape or form. I'm thinking also that the premise of NX has changed as well. There's a lot going on at Nintendo right now, it just isn't time for us to know what it is yet.

The premise of a console that will be out within the next two years cannot change. That's not how development works. We'd already be well into the prototyping stage with almost locked down hardware. 

 

That out of the way, there is a devil's advocate side to what you said. Zelda has always (since Aonuma and even prior honestly) had horrible feature creep. The 2015 release date was Nintendo's way of trying to force Aonuma's hand and avoid these prolonged cycles, and at some point they realized that forcing 2015 would lead to a subpar game. Like, literally subpar; bad framerate, ugly game, etc. The same thing has happened to games in the past, so it very well could be Nintendo trying one last time to stop feature creep from delaying Zelda and then giving up and deciding not to announce a date until it's 80% done. With how bad Zelda is at landing on time, that's not out of the realm of possibility. 

 

Now I don't necessarily believe that's the case here 100%, but I also highly doubt the NX is coming out as a console next year in time for Zelda. I think it WILL be cross platform, but the NX console likely won't hit until 2017, with the NXDS/whatever they wanna call it coming out next year after all of the final wave of 3DS games hit. I think it's a bit of both columns.