| SpokenTruth said: Actually, it proves my point. You don't know why it was delayed yet it was. Is it relevant? We don't know. So speculation is just sits there on a plateau of unfounded reason. Zelda Wii U was delayed for 2 reasons. New ideas and Zelda 30 anniversary. The idea that the delay was intentional from the start is asinine and holds no reason, calulation or value other than a thread with losts of posts. What value do they gain from lying about the launch year from the start? None. |
Why do you want to stamp out all attempts to speculate? What did speculation ever do to you?
Claiming Zelda Wii U was delayed for the 30th anniversary is funny since Nintendo has known the exact date of the 30th anniversary for the past 29 years. Suddenly this past spring they remembered that it's next year and decided to delay it? Why do you now claim to know why the game was delayed when three posts ago you said no one knows why it was delayed?
Nintendo actually gained a lot by lying about the release date. Just think about the situation they were in at E3 2014 and what their alternatives were. Don't show Zelda at all? Admit then and there that it's a 2016 project? Either of these would have significantly hurt their momentum. The way they played things, they came out of E3 that year with a load of positive press and the Zelda footage was a big part of that. Probably the biggest part, since without it their biggest reveal would have been Splatoon. And they went into last Holiday season able to tell new Wii U owners that Zelda was coming pretty soon (a message they repeated leading into this Holiday). When they revealed the game, it was a year and a half away from release. When they announced the delay, it was a year and a half away from release. The game hasn't been further than ~18 months away since it was first shown. Zelda is a carrot hanging from a stick, enticing Wii U owners to hold onto their systems for just another 12-18 months.
As a side note I really don't give a shit about Vgchartz points or whatever, or getting a lot of posts in my threads. My threads rarely exceed 3-4 pages, and this one will be no different. At this point though you're the only person keeping it alive, if you feel like you're rewarding me for bad behavior we can just continue this discussion in messages or wall posts.
The idea that 2016 was always the planned release date for Zelda Wii U came from a couple of very straightforward observations. Twilight Princess HD began development before Zelda Wii U was revealed. Twilight Princess HD was planned for a 2015 (but not early 2015) release within a couple of months of the Game Awards footage, well before the delay of Zelda Wii U was announced. The obvious conclusion would be that the "delay" had already been decided upon by the time TPHD was aiming for a mid-late 2015 release.
