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Well that's kinda the thing with Zelda for NX launch, you wouldn't neccessarily need a Mario Galaxy 3 ready for launch either. You could move that 3-4 months post-launch, give the dev team a few extra months to polish it to top grade greatness, and now the dreaded "post launch drought" suddenly is kaput too because Mario takes care of that. And that basically means all of Nintendo's other big NX releases can now also have an extra 2-4 months of dev time because Zelda/Mario so early in the launch window basically take care of the first 6-8 months so long as you have few smaller support titles in there (like a F-Zero here or a Diddy Kong Racing there).

That's why moving Zelda to the NX launch window just gives Nintendo so many more options. Now suddenly the Mario Galaxy team doesn't have a gun to their head to make the fall 2016 window. The Animal Crossing team for NX can relax a little too because they won't be needed until summer or even fall 2017.