Miyamoto Says sorry for zelda Botw delays, he expected it to be out in 2015.

[Werix357]

wombat123 said:

Werix357 said:

Just remeber one thing this Zelda is the biggest game nintendo have ever made, with biggest team they have ever had working on a single project.

In short Zelda BoTW has to sell some serious numbers to make money and they ain't taking the risk of low sales by releasing it on the Wii U only.

I'm thinking Nintendo need sales upward of 6 million.

I'm thinking one of the side-benefits of BotW is that Nintendo has a ready made engine to repurpose for a lot of open-world type games and larger scale games for the NX. I can see it being modified and used for a Monolith Soft game, a new Metroid Prime, an NX exclusive Zelda among others to shorten development windows for large, ambitious games.  I doubt Nintendo is going to let all the time and money spent on the BotW engine be wasted on just one game; plus, it gets me optimistic that we won't have to deal with another console generation that's overrepresented by low-budget, short development cycle games like 2D platformers and party games.

That is my hope too, Nintendo need a in house engine like EA's Frostbite to help shorten development times.