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curl-6 on 19 January 2016
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Thunderbird77 said:
curl-6 said:
Thunderbird77 said:

Two exception with obvious reasons why it took longer. No arguing about it.

Those "exceptions" are the only console Zelda entries made in the last 9 years. For the modern era of video gaming, they are the norm. To get to any others, you have to go back to when game development was nothing like it is today. The production times of 5th/6th gen games have no bearing on the production time of modern games.

Still 2 and exceptions. SS was made from the ground for the wii, an overclocked gamecube. WW and TP too 3 years or less to develop and SS was no different, but an EXCEPTION happened, causing dev time to increase to 5 years. Now Zelda U is the first HD Zelda and has a huge open world. Next Zelda will take at least 1 and a half year less than Zelda U to develop.

Again, 5 years in the norm for the last 9 years and 2 gens.

The dev times for TP/WW are irrelevant when discussing future projects because game development back then was totally different to now.