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When do you think Zelda U will release?

Second half of 2014 83 31.32%
 
First half of 2015 40 15.09%
 
Second half of 2015 105 39.62%
 
After 2015 22 8.30%
 
Results 15 5.66%
 
Total:265
DerNebel said:
Zero999 said:

blame yourself. I won't bother doing that for you. and I think it was one of iwata asks.

Blame myself for what again? For you making yourself look like a liar, by making a claim and then not providing a source when asked? I'm really feeling horrible now...

@Asriel: Thanks for the source. I agree with you, that question is far from a confirmation. Iwata might have said more or that might've been the only thing he said about that topic cause let's be honest here, people on the internet love to take comments like this and blow them out of proportion.

blame yorself for not being worth the effort.



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Zero999 said:

blame yorself for not being worth the effort.

Pff that's cute. You're mad at me. Grow up.



orniletter said:
kekrot said:


Please not that. We already has one, plus one in a three dimensional space.

But I hope that Zelda U gets released late next year, with DK in February, MK in April, and Smash in summer. They can't drag Smash until fall when they have no big first party games in May-October. It can very well for all we know be very far along in development, and be released november 2014. Skyward Sword was 2011, TP 2006, WW 2003, and MM 2000. I mentioned MM because it shows how long it took to a completely new generation, three years. Then three years to TP. Like another said, they could drag SS as long as they would due to Wii selling really really good in the meantime. And it took too long in my opinion. I remember when Wii launched, they announced at the launch of TP that the real Zelda Wii had been in the first stages of development for a year, from November 2005. That's something to think about.


Skyward Sword took so long because they literally started from Square Zero halfway though the development.

They changed artstyles and included the WiiMote+ for 1:1 sword controls.

Skyward Sword is the exception, not the rule.


SS is the exception yes, just what I'm saying. And Nintendo/Aonuma and his team had the chance to start from square zero halfway through this time, BECAUSE Wii was selling so well and they were showered in profits compared to GC. They saw no need to make SS as fast as TP or WW, since people bought the Wii anyway.

This time around it's like the GC, only a bit worse even. That means they are surely having serious discussions about it releasing next year. For all we know Nintendo may end up cutting a few things they otherwise could have implemented, like WW.

I just sincerely hope that Zelda U releases next year.



Yep.

Zero999 said:
orniletter said:
I think they could hit a 2014 release date is they really wanted to (outsource the grunt work to an outside studio).

Skyward Sword will be 3 years old by then.

No one knows how big the Zelda team (EAD.3) really is.

A 2015 release date is more likely, but it isn´t entirely impossible (considering that Aonuma said that the new Zelda WILL be revealed at E3 2014) that they may hit 2014.

He said it will be shown at E3, the reveal will probably be before that. and it looks like monolith is helping the zelda team too. anyway, I don't know why people keep insisting that nintendo won't have competence to finish this game in 3 years total.

Monolith Soft probably doesn't do much with the Zelda games, even if their company name has been mentioned in every Zelda credits since they were bought. If they had anything important to do with it their names would be listed (maybe some are, there are a lot more people mentioned in total in SS than in the credits in TP, so the Zelda team certainly has been growing a lot.

From an interview published just a few days ago:


Siliconera: I’m seeing that Monolith Soft is popping up in a lot of games. To what extent are they involved with the main company now that they’ve been assimilated into Nintendo?

Reggie: They may be there [in the end credits of those games] but I would be careful looking too much into that.   

 

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/04/nintendos-reggie-talks-wii-u-western-development-operation-rainfall/



Yep.

...called it :P