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curl-6 on 01 December 2015
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Jon-Erich said:
curl-6 said:

While I loathe GTA, even I'll admit it is one of the most ambitious and elaborate games on the market. I hardly think Zelda needs as much development time as a modern GTA. 

Plenty of devs have managed to put out quality blockbuster games with 3 year development cycles. There are very, very few games that need 5 years, and Zelda is not one of them.

Zelda may not have the extensive voice acting and scripted story that GTA has but the games are still quite large and ambitious compared to most games. Again, how often do you see a game on the market that is anything like Zelda? A lot of publishers today deliberately avoid games like that. Then there's the issue of quality. Large games like that means that cleaning up bugs and glitches will take longer as the hardware becomes more sophisticated. Even after all of that, the occassional bug still gets past testing. Unlike your average publisher, Nintendo doesn't release unfinished games. They aren't a big fan of patching. So to put things in perspective, take something like Assassins Creed Unity and Battlefield 4 and estimate how long the initial development took. Then add in how many months it took to fix those games after their release. Then you'll get a true perspective on how long some of those games should take to develop.

Also keep in mind that the same Zelda team that makes the console games also makes the handheld games which are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. With something like Call of Duty or Assassins Creed, there's the console game. That's it. There is no portable games in between the console games and if their is, it's usually left in the hands of another developer. So the reality is that the Zelda team has been hard at work on several Zelda games over the last few years, one of them being the most sophisticated console Zelda game ever.

I wasn't so much thinking of GTA's voice acting and story, so much as its huge and detailed world, and the amount of stuff going on within it. Even with an open world, I doubt Zelda will be as packed with NPCs and in-game systems at GTA.