JNK said:
on the other hand porting costs time and development ressources. The last of us from ps3 to ps4 took naughty dog one year (almost the full team). If they really ported it, they could already be 1 year in the next zelda game if zelda wii u skipped NX. Meaning Zelda Wii u und NX will at least delay zelda nx one year.
Without The last of us Remastered we would already had Uncharted 4 in the ps4. And Naughty Dog would already work on Uncharted 5 / The last of us 2 or any other title. |
Sry, but you dont know what you talking about. Porting one game from one system to another is very fast and cheap, basically cost few millions and can be done in 6 monts (I talking about port of a game not remaster). Saying that Nintendo will earn money with Zelda U port for NX only if they sell around 100-200k copies of NX version, but here we talking about several milions copies on NX alone, thats in worst case $100m of pure profit just from NX version.
The Last Of Us for PS4 wasnt simple port, it was Remaster. The Last Of Us PS4 sold more than 4m till now, so you can easily see how many money Sony made on that port. Saying that I dont think that Zelda U for NX will be Remastered version of a Wii U game, it will be simple port with some unique things, similar like TP Wii was different in comparison with GC version.
Maybe we could get new Zelda 6-12 months earlier if there is no Zelda U port for NX, but that doesn't change really anything, NX would be around 3 years without Zelda instead around 3-4 years. But with Zelda U port, NX will have new Zelda on launch and another one 3-4 years later, similar like Wii had. And after Wii U, NX really needs great launch titles, and new 3D Zelda game is very strong launch title, espacily beacuse Zelda U is first HD true open world Zelda that looks beatifule and looks like it will be one of best Zeldas ever. Not to mention sales of game itself that will be much higher than it would be on Wii U alone, especially because Zelda U launch on NX will be just beginning of NX life and game will sell whole life of NX while launch on Wii U will basically be end of Wii U life.
Also you can bet that Nintendo this delay will use to polish and include more content in that huge world, so at end we will get better game than we would if game was released in 2015.
Also from wikipedia regardless The Last Of Us PS4 development team: "The team that worked on Remastered was significantly smaller than the team for The Last of Us; in particular, the team did not include any designers, which led to various design issues remaining from the original game. Druckmann attributed this to the fact that Remastered was developed as a recreation of the original, altering only technical and graphical aspects."
So basicly one small part of team worked on The Last Of Us PS4 while reast of team worked on Uncharted 4.
At end, only argument you have is "Wii U will not have exlusive Zelda game", but if we include all facts that is very very weak argument why Nintendo dont need to port Zelda U on NX.
