Hiku said:
Alkibiádēs said:
Hiku said:
Alkibiádēs said:
And how many times has Nintendo done that? Even WW HD had a lot of improved textures.
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Winwaker HD is exactly what I'm expecting. An HD port with some improvements. Not a remake. Resident Evil 1 Remake, MGS Twin Snakes, etc, those are remakes. I don't thing there's even been a remake of a PS2 era and up game yet for a home console. (But Yakuza 1, Resident Evil 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake are on the way.)
And Nintendo has no established pattern when it comes to how they treat re released games in HD seeing as there's only 1 so far (to my knowledge). And that's Wind Waker.
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TP needs more than WW, Nintendo knows that. Otherwise they'd have done TP in 2013 (it would sell better, TP is simply more popular). Nintendo doesn't follow trends by other companies, so any comparison with them is moot. OoT and MM got full remakes. They aren't going to churn out a lazy HD port for the 30th anniversary.
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OoT and MM are portable games with a much lower budget. That's why I said home consoles.
It's not about following trends, but about money. That's why full blown remakes for HD consoles haven't even happened yet. And Nintendo are clearly prioritizing profits when it comes to the WiiU. That's why there still hasn't been a new price cut after nearly 3 years, and the only new games announced at E3 this year are a Tennis game and an Amiibo Party game. The console is well on its way to become Nintendo's worst selling console ever, so I doubt they'd grace it with a full blown remake.
Twilight Princess doesn't need much more. It just needs to look clear on an HD display and be playable. Anything beyond that is a bonus. Other games don't only recieve an HD port instead of full remake because it's a trend. It's because it costs significantly more to do a remake for a current gen system. Time and money that can often be spent better on making an entierly new game.
If there's any trend worth talking about with Nintendo when it comes to the WiiU, it's them being very economical. Mario just had his 30th anniversary this year. And Nintendo released Mario Maker to celebrate that, and Mario Galaxy 2 was re-released on the e-shop without any HD treatment or even any upscaling. It looks exactly the same, which means blurry. No matter how good the game looked on a CRT TV. So your idea about how they're not going to release a "lazy" HD port for Zelda's anniversari doesn't sounds convincing. An HD Twilight Princess with some upgrades like Wind Waker HD would be quite a step up from the straight Wii port of Mario Galaxy 2, alongside the presumed 2016 release of Zelda WiiU.
And if they were to make a big budget remake for a Zelda console game, even if WiiU had been successful, if popularity is a factor then they'd be more likely to chose OoT which is arguably their most popular Zelda game, which has even aged badly in terms of gameplay mechanics, and not just graphics.
This looks quite presentable btw:
    
The real Zelda Anniversary game is Zelda WiiU, and that's what they're spending most of their resources on.
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No, it looks terrible, even on dolphin. The game could easily be ported to NX later on, thus it would be worth the investment. I can barely make out what's going on in those pictures, such blurry textures. Nintendo needs a way to soften the blow for Wii U owners when they announce that Zelda U will launch on the NX first and only later on the Wii U. Super Mario Galaxy was just a VC re-release, TP has HD in the title. And what resources would Nintendo even spend? Just hire a third party studio to do the work for you. You know what other games are coming to the Wii U in 2016? Pokken Tournament, a third party collaboration with Bandai Namco. Genei Ibun Roku #FE, a third party collaboration with Atlus. Star Fox: Zero, a third party collaboration with Platinum. Third party studios are carrying the Wii U through 2016. Twilight Princess sold more than Ocarina of Time anyway. Super Mario Maker is quite a good game to celebrate Mario's 30th anniversary, so I don't understand why you bring that up.
