Jumpin on 17 December 2017
It's more than likely they began entertaining concepts for the next Legend of Zelda at the beginning of the polish phase of Breath of the Wild, which probably happened in 2015. They would have begun moving on production over a year ago.
This isn't the film industry; developers don't just wait around between titles, they are always working on the next project when they have finished with the previous.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
