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curl-6 on 08 December 2015
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Wyrdness said:
curl-6 said:

It only "caused a stir" for hardcore Nintendo fans, who are a small and shrinking minority these days. The mainstream gamers paid it no heed.

Skyward Sword got a full gameplay trailer and tons of uncut gameplay at E3 2010, a year and a half before it came out. Zelda U is presumably closer than that, and we've seen less of it. And hype culture has only grown more pervasive since 2010.

According to whom exactly? Yourself? The footage was even trending on Facebook and social media which goes entirely against your whole argument.

Skyward Sword was motion based it had to be shown off to demonstrate the WMP integration as design wise it's not like other Zelda games and that was the main draw, TP itself went quiet before launch and only had 2 trailers before the 6 months leading to release, your whole argument tbh is simply untrue they don't need to show it until later and the game is as anticipated as any other top game.

Again, it was trending because Nintendo fans were sharing it, not the gaming mainstream. Look no further than Wii U's market share to see how much Nintendo's relevance to the mainstream has declined.

11 months out, we had seen more of Twilight Princess than we've seen now of Zelda U. And again, hype culture was not as important a part of the industry in 2006 or even in 2011 compared to today.