See this is why Nintendo needs a Direct.  Until there's some other news, hopefully with release dates for games, there will be no end to these speculations.  They need to stabilize the situation.

Highlighting a specific point doesn't mean there aren't other points besides what you're focusing on, it just means that Nintendo wants to draw attention to the games they have coming in 2015 at E3.

Nintendo could announce a bunch of new games releasing in 2016 at E3, but they could use a bunch of short gameplay trailers or teasers for those games and give the 2015 games they're announcing and showing new details on the most time in their presentation.

The fact that Zelda may end up becoming a 2016 game should actually show people that the Wii U will continue to be supported beyond this year and the fact that Nintendo has never released a new home console less than 5 years after their preceding platform should make people understand that it's very unlikely that the next Nintendo home console will release before Mid November 2017.
They have said they hope to share details on NX next year, but that doesn't mean they'll be ready to release it in 2016, so all signs actually point to Wii U getting games support from Nintendo until at least early Fall 2017.

If NX is in fact the Fusion system then Nintendo will have bigger game output at the launch of that system, because they can release all of their console software across both the handheld and home platforms simultaneously.

NX would make it possible for Nintendo to literally treat their new handheld and home console as one, as far as marketing goes, so at E3 2016 they could still have time in their presentations to announce games for Wii U, even if they mainly focus on the new system(s).

A couple of hundred fanboys on the internet making a big stink isn't a situation. 

Let me ruin the ending of this generation for some people who are still happy mappy delusional land -- Wii U is what it is, it will be failure in sales terms and its going to be Nintendo's worst selling console, and Nintendo knows all of this already and has known it for some time. Zelda coming in 2015 or 2016 wasn't going to change that one way or another. 

I think you misunderstood. I told the OP that nintendo didn't say they would only show 2016 titles.

I know. I'm saying that someone could argue that "highlight 2015 games" implies "won't talk about 2016 games" stictly because that is the alleged reason for Zelda U's absence.

If Zelda was releasing before E3 2016, it would be at E3 2015. You can take that to the bank. So it's a 2nd-half 2016 game; in fact, I'm confident it has been pushed all the way back to Holiday 2016.

Think about how much of the game they showed at E3 2014. That is how much of the game they wanted to have shown a year and a half before release. The amount of the game we've currently seen is how much they wanted to have shown under a year before release. Now, suddenly it's almost two years away from release. I don't expect to see much more of it until it is once again under a year away. It seems like they are trying to avoid the mistake they made with Skyward Sword of showing too much too soon. They planned for Zelda's big blow-out to be at E3, 5 months before its release, and that is when its big blow-out will be.

However, they will surely have some games coming out in the first half of 2016. If they want those games to be shown at any E3 conference at all, they'll have to talk about them this year.

Right. I agree with literally every word of that. That's not what I'm saying.

Nintendo is on record saying that the specific reason they aren't showing Zelda at E3 this year is because they want to instead focus on games specifically coming out this year. I'm saying that, by playing the devil's advocate, someone could argue that because Nintendo said that, Nintendo is alsosaying that there will only be 2015 game at E3. If they're going to show any 2016 games, their reason for not showing Zelda doesn't make any sense.

And it really doesn't make any sense, because it's PR nonsense.

Do you really think that Nintendo would really create more ill will with consumers by abandoning the Wii U? Even if that were a plan its not physically possible. The Wii U was conceived in 2008 at a time people wanted a Wii HD, but took 4 years of planning to actually release. The same people who bashed SEGA Saturn unexpected early release and Xbox 360's RROD are clamouring for a quick early release for Nintendo's next console so it could repeat the same errors, which goes beyond any form of rational thinking

They better have some unannounced games to show or their E3 will end up being a borefest. I'll worry about 2016 later, all I ask for is some decent games to replace Zelda in 2015.

It's not nonsense just because someone can deliberately misinterpret it. You just agreed with me that one of the real reasons is because Zelda will be a late-2016 release. The only way to detail that would be to establish a more specific release window, which they don't want to do. The PR is not false, it's just leaving out information -- obvious information to anyone with a basic grasp of the situation.