Not really fine-  they delayed the game a year for the purpose of using it a s a lanch game for theor next console

Now they are doing the same thing - at least the Gamecube a a pretty deep diverse library of games unlie the game starved Wiii U with NO LOZ game to date-  So the only LOZ game coming to the Wii U (we hope) is being delayed at least a year in order to seel the next console that many of us current wii u owners may not even purchase-   basically delaying the ZeldaU game does nothing for Wii u owners  just for Nintendo

The more i see how sleazy Nintendo is, the more sure i am that i am that i will not get their next console or if i do it will be much later and will be used

Glad to see many people understand the story is repeating.

yeah, there is a high chance of happening again.

As a (if I recall correctly) day 1 buyer for Wii U and (for sure) for 3ds (you know, back when it was $250 for the standard model...), I would be delighted with the NX coming out next year. I wouldn't feel alienated. We've had some pretty great games on Wii U, it's not like they are pulling a Sega here and abandoning the console before it can make a name for itself, and even if it did I'm fine with that because I'm a true Nintendo gamer and that means I want Nintendo to do whatever it has to in order to survive and keep making its charming games.

I'm above myself; I'm not going to complain about Nintendo launching into the next gen hardware a year sooner than they are "supposed" to (based on modern patterns, not an actual rule). As long as they survive and keep making great games, I'm happy with whatever system it is on.

I ama day 1 Wii U buyer (for my then 7 yr old Son s  b day).  If a Wii U owner loves platformers I can see how they may be moderatly pleased w the Wi U library- but for the rest of us The libray is not very diverse or deep-  It is clear to me Nintendo s effort toward the Wii U was weak from the atart and never ramped up to help itself or its customers

Burning many of thier most loyal customers may or may not help them in the short term business wise butt it is a terrible longer term decsion-  Nintendo has lost tons of market share and qute a lot of money over the last several years and treating their customers poorply is not going to help turn that around

They are going to have a hard time launching the NX obvioulsy they will sacrifice delivery dates and games for the Wii u in order to launch the NX but IMO there will be many people like me that will not buy their next console at or close to launch if it all - Outside of their loyal base (about the number of Wii U consoles sold to date) Nintendo is just not that relevant to the consumer as they once were-   Not getting Minecraft on any of their consoles wis going to haunt them in the future - 

Anything is possible, though I'm hoping it will be a Wii U exclusive.. even if it's not, I'll be getting the Wii U version

Whether what they did was right or wrong was not my point. They might have made the most evil decisions.

My point was only that in the interview, they never claimed the game would not come to the Revolution. However, the OP states exactly that in the thread title.

This to me is trolling and/ or implying something which does not exist. That is what I pointed out, that is what I will restate.

And they were telling the truth. Nowhere in that article did they ever say it wasn't coming to the Wii, or the Revolution as it was known as back then. They said it was still coming to the GameCube and that was the truth. Also, the reasons for delaying it are true as well. If you look at the footage for the game between E3 2005 and it's launch in 2006, they actually did make major changes and large portion of the game were revamped. The decision to bring it to the Wii was more of a moment of opportunity. That system was coming soon. The hardware was practically the same as the GameCube's hardware which made the porting super easy.

Now I'm sure the launch date was ultimately decided to coincide with the Wii. I'm sure had it been a GameCube-only game, it could have been out by August or September of that year. But no, releasing it on the Wii wasn't the sole reason Twilight Princess was delayed.

You know what's harder? That we can't do something as long as there are fans that look for excuses rather than accepting the harsh truth.

Upon its conception, I was curious to see the Revolution, Nintendo’s new platform announced at E3 2005, would innovate Zelda’s gameplay. I was eager to try it, but I thought that that could happen only after we completed work on Twilight Princess. I was surprised at first to hear Miyamoto’s suggestion that we try it right away, and I didn’t know how it would impact the Zelda that at that time was still missing a key ingredient. But we had to start by testing what Miyamoto had suggested and that was getting the pointer to work as the control for the bow and arrow. Though the pointer control that we developed as a trial still needed tweaking, and as imperfect as it was, the feeling of being able to aim directly at the target on the screen was, as with the DS version, exactly what was needed to give Zelda a completely new feel. Having experienced it, I was convinced that that was the only direction we could take. “This direct control is exactly what Twilight Princess needs in order to penetrate a market experiencing gamer drift." Miyamoto knew that this would be my response, and he himself felt strongly about it.

However, if we put Twilight Princess on the Revolution, we ran the risk of those looking forward to playing it on the GameCube. For this reason, we knew that we had to release it for the GameCube as well. But doing so meant developing two versions, a GameCube version and Revolution version, and we knew that it was impossible to create both before the 2005 release as promised. Miyamoto negotiated with the higher-ups, and in the end, while it would disappoint those users who were looking forward to the 2005 release, if we really were able to create a 120% Zelda game that could be played both on the GameCube and on the Revolution, then even if we did release at the time of the launch of the Revolution in 2006, we could make even those users happy. This was Iwata’s response and the decision to create Twilight Princess for both the Revolution and the GameCube.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/13091/eiji-aonumas-gdc-2007-presentation-a-revolutionary-idea