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teigaga on 16 November 2016
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Pavolink said:
teigaga said:

Majora's Mask launched first in Japan in April, Windwaker launched in Spring for NA/EU. There is no strict timetable Nintendo adhere to, they just do what they think makes sense for that year. BOTW has been the primary game marketed with Switch, its already had 2 major delays and Nintendo  have spoken numerous times about not repeating the Wii U's software issues. I don't see them intentionally pushing the game to the holiday and if they do, it means they've got plenty of games to fill up the summer/fall months.

Those 2 games are from 2000 and 2003. And TWW released first in Japan in holiday 2002. Past 13 years are holiday releases.

I never said otherwise, the point is there isn't this strict regime of launching during the holiday.

The past "13 years" equates to 2 mainline Zelda games. 

Twilight Princess, originally intended for October 2005 but delayed to launch with the Wii in Novemeber 2006.

Skyward Sword, Nintendo's sole holiday release for 2011. Of course they weren't going to release it in some random point in the year.

Context is key and far more important than release history which is all over the place for the franchise. Holiday was of course the original target but since it got delayed a release date of ASAP is more realistic as we saw with Uncharted 4 which had a series history of holiday release. If Nintendo have no big 2017 holiday title for the masses I could see them pushing BOTW to be that title, if they do, then I think they will release it when its ready and ensure Switch keeps up post launch sales momentum.