Do you have some valid indications that it will not be a holiday 2010 release?

Agree. Is VentureBeat just stupid, or are they trying to inject some flamebait? Though i've noticed they've made some odd proclamations about games before...

Still, it's good to see them comitting to this more firmly.

Well, the only thing saying it may be in 2010 has been teasing. There hasn't been a direct answer or date set.

For counter-evidence:

1. Nothing has been shown from the game. Not one thing. Even the picture from last year's E3 was called inaccurate by Miyamoto himself. That means that by last E3, they didn't even have the characters fully developed. Just ideas.

2. Last year at E3, 2dmario was shown and then released several months later. That was another game that was not shown in any shape or form previously. Granted, they are both high-quality games, I think Zelda is a much more production-intensive game. Additionally, it may be using several different peripherals and would be more technical, imo. If 2d Mario made it just before Xmas, I don't think Zelda will make it.

3. Zelda does not really belong to the new market or model. Therefore, Nintendo is less inclined to give it everything they've got. 2dMario fits in with the market perfectly, but Zelda...not so much. Unless something within Zelda has drastically changed...like multiplayer (god, no) then it's not a priority.

Just my own opinions and conjecture, but I don't think they are going to push it out so fast. Look at Metroid for a more accurate example of a similar game.

You do know development began several years ago? The character art presented at the E3 invite briefing shouldn't be used as a measure to gauge what stage of development they were in. It was nothing more than a teaser. I highly doubt they spent the previous 2 years just coming up with that painting.

that's what they've told you.

1 & 2) nintendo is very tight lipped. They just announced The Last Story which is also a 2010 title and will surely take a good bit of production. Not every company is horrible at keeping secrets like Sony is.

3) you have fallen under the influence of the fanboys and trolls that say Nintendo doesn't care about the "core". This has been proven wrong repeatedly. How a team dedicated to soley to Zelda is influenced by another dev team that is focusing on Wii game x is beyond me.

edit: also, please explain to me why they are misleading (or lieing) to the investors?

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Just... Just leave the thread. I seriously recommend you do. I'm not saying you have to or anything, just saying that it might be within your best interest.

but zelda hasn't even been officially announced, right?

And I'm not easily influenced. IMO I saw the Zelda teaser art as a response to the "core" saying, "hang in there".

Lol.  Ok, so they were at the concept art stage when the painting was unveiled at last years E3, you say?  Then by your reasoning, we should see this new Zelda launch in late fall of 2012 at the earliest but more likely 2013.

@theprof

you missed my edit when you quoted me. I need answers to my previous post that everyone seems to have skipped over where I quoted Nintendo of Japan.

As for being officially announced, yes it has been officially announced by Nintendo that they are working on it. You can't get much more official than that. They haven't announced it at a press conference in front of the general public, but that doesn't mean we don't know anything about it.

If you want to talk about the "core" hanging in there, we didn't need to. At E3 09, they dropped 3 huge games on us that will all be out within 1 year. One of which we got 4 months ago.