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curl-6 on 28 November 2016
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Pavolink said:
Just to remember all the lies regardling BotW:

1. Game is going to be released in 2015. For sure guys, go buy the console.

2. Lol. We delay it. No new date. We found something great, aka NX, but you believe those are great new mechanics! (months later) Guys, this time for sure in 2016. Meanwhile go buy this remaster.

3. Lol. Aren't we funny? 2017 it is. And an NX version to release simultaneously. That's great (for us...). A delayed game is eventually blah blah blah... You know the rest.

4. RUMOR: lol. Simultaneos release? Go buy Switch first! Aren't we the best consumer friendly company? We care about you, friends.

Pretty much. It's been one ongoing barrage of bullshit for over two years now.

 

NightDragon83 said:
I still think it'll get a simultaneous release, but the Wii U version will be obviously gimped as compared to say the GC / Wii versions of Twilight Princess, where both games were basically identical save for mirrored Link and motion controls in the Wii U version.

And the Wii version supporting widescreen while Gamecube inexplicably didn't.

 

Kai_Mao said:
curl-6 said:

Nintendo's internal teams share tools and technology though, so the Zelda team would benefit from all the progress made by other internal teams in HD development over the last 5 years. This can be seen in the graphical improvement in first party titles over Wii U's life, across numerous different teams. For example, even though they were made by different teams, Mario Kart 8 looks better than 3D World, which looks better than Pikmin 3.

Also, Monolith are co-developing Breath of the Wild, and they've already made a HD open world Wii U title.

4 years to make Breath of the Wild, the same timeframe as Witcher 3, would have been acceptable. Even 5 would have been excusable given the ambition of the project. But it they can't get it out in March 2017 in time for Switch's launch, that's some seriously bad management.

They never said it would launch in March which is something I think some are misunderstanding. They've placed the year 2017 as their release year but didn't specify a month.

I never said they promised a March release, I said that if they can't get it out by then (nearly a year and a half after it was originally supposed to release) that speaks of gross mismanagement. Competently run studios simply don't miss their deadlines by such an enormous margin.