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RolStoppable said:

1+4.  Zelda never sold that well or Zelda easily clears the 4m hurdle with every release? Which one is your stance? You can't have it both ways.

2. People aren't going to buy two consoles at the time the next Zelda comes out and someone who doesn't already own a Wii U isn't likely to invest in a system that will be on its last legs by the time of Zelda's release. Releasing Zelda on two platforms would be the smartest choice. My argument is nothing like putting a game on the PC, because NX will be a Nintendo system.

3. I haven't said anything about making the next Zelda NX-exclusive. The Wii U would still get Zelda, so Wii U owners could buy the game they have waited for while the people who had no interest in buying a Wii U could play Zelda on NX.

1. ????? Dont know what your talking about. Zelda games were never big sellers on any nintendo system. The 3ds doesnt sold 50mio copies because of its zelda games. There are 16 games on wii that sold better as twilight princess.

 

2. Nintendo always had 2 consoles simultaneuosly and they almost never get the same games. Many people still bought both.

Also Nintendo already said, that the NX wont replace the wii u. So a Zelda wii u release on NX wont make sense, scince wii u wont be replaced by nx.

 

3. If People got a Wii U to play Zelda, they might feel cheated. They will also feel cheated if nintendo tells them, that the long anticipated Zelda Wii U games need more time to devlelopment and "the whole zelda time" is working on the title, and then they realized that the development just slowed down because they remove ressources from the Wii U version to make a NX Version. Also: Many Zelda fans want to play the superior/best version. If they got a wii u just for zelda and get a inferior product, they will feel cheated the 3rd time.

 

Sorry, but i doubt you can skip the wii u and still play the best zelda game ever made. Im sorry.



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Teeqoz said:

Lol, I have a Wii U.

"Even if it makes sense or not, I doubt etc." Why would you doubt what makes sense?

Just because TP is the only Zelda title getting a release on two consoles simultaneously doesn't mean it can't happen again. And like I said, TLOUR took 1year to port, and there's no way Wii U and NX will be more different than PS3 and PS4. And what does it matter that the Wii U hasn't got "its own Zelda"? Only a few very adamant fans will care if the game launches on another platform at the same time. Zelda U will still launch on Wii U.


The Last of us was finished on PS3, got released and was ported to ps4.

If nintendo wants to bring Zelda Wii U to NX, why dont they just release the game this holiday on wii u and release the remastered version next holiday on NX? Because there is no nx version.

 

PS: Please read more carfull. I dont doubt it makes sense. I doubt Nintendo have enough ressources to handle the port and still release the game in 2016. All ressources are needed to finish the wii u version.



JNK said:
Teeqoz said:

Lol, I have a Wii U.

"Even if it makes sense or not, I doubt etc." Why would you doubt what makes sense?

Just because TP is the only Zelda title getting a release on two consoles simultaneously doesn't mean it can't happen again. And like I said, TLOUR took 1year to port, and there's no way Wii U and NX will be more different than PS3 and PS4. And what does it matter that the Wii U hasn't got "its own Zelda"? Only a few very adamant fans will care if the game launches on another platform at the same time. Zelda U will still launch on Wii U.


The Last of us was finished on PS3, got released and was ported to ps4.

If nintendo wants to bring Zelda Wii U to NX, why dont they just release the game this holiday on wii u and release the remastered version next holiday on NX? Because there is no nx version.

 

PS: Please read more carfull. I dont doubt it makes sense. I doubt Nintendo have enough ressources to handle the port and still release the game in 2016. All ressources are needed to finish the wii u version.


Even if the NX version isn't released at the same time as the Wii U version, how can you say there "is no NX version"? 

PS. you said "even if it makes sense or not" which means that even if you had thought it made sense you would still doubt it but that evidently wasn't your intention so whatever.

PPS. What if it's delayed til 2017? You have just as little proof for saying it won't release on NX as anyone else has for saying it will.



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Because its obviously high budget and they most likely won't be making a lot of money off it.



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Teeqoz said:

Even if the NX version isn't released at the same time as the Wii U version, how can you say there "is no NX version"? 

PS. you said "even if it makes sense or not" which means that even if you had thought it made sense you would still doubt it but that evidently wasn't your intention so whatever.

PPS. What if it's delayed til 2017? You have just as little proof for saying it won't release on NX as anyone else has for saying it will.


The Thread is about a simultaneuos release on Wii U and NX (like TP). And thats very unlikely. As far we do know Zelda will be released 2016 (Reggie said this at e3).

I hope NX wont get Zelda Wii U port but its own unique Zelda game. I dont need ressources wasted to bring games in multiple plattforms. Doesnt make sense. Better invest these ressources in new games.

 

I will revive this thread after e3 2016 and we will see. Nobody can "proove" anything yet. It is possible that Zelda Wii U will also be on NX. But its also possible that Mario Kart 8/Smash Bros U and co are on NX.  IMO its very unlikely, but we will see.



RolStoppable said:

1. What I am talking about is that you keep repeating that Zelda games were never big sellers, yet when I mentioned the 3DS, you said that sales of 3m for a Zelda game are too low, therefore indicating that Zelda fans do not own a 3DS.

So? Sorry i dont get your point. We were talking about Nintendo hardcore fans that are interested in the new Zelda. I said many of those people already got a wii u. You said "No, just 10 mio got a Wii U, but 3ds sold 50 mio units so there are still 40mio fans that dont have a wii u". Then i prooved that even on the large 3ds Userbase the amount of zelda fans is as small as on wii u.

 

2. Buying both consoles goes for people who make those purchases years apart. It's not going to happen within a few months.

Of course Nintendo said that NX won't replace the Wii U. If they had said that, it would basically be an official death blow to the Wii U. Just look at how Sony reacted when they called the Vita a legacy system; their clarification for the statement was laughable. Nintendo did their PR work better, but that doesn't mean that they aren't already in the process of shifting their development resources towards NX and away from 3DS and Wii U. The reason why this year's E3 was focused on 2015 releases and not much beyond is that the pipeline for 2016 will be rather dry. Revealing that at this time would certainly not raise confidence in the current Nintendo systems, so Nintendo simply avoided talking about it. And by the time it becomes apparent to everyone that there isn't much left for the 3DS and Wii U, the NX will be unveiled and people will be looking forward to that instead of complaining that the 3DS and Wii U are approaching the ends of their respectivelifecycles.

You work for Nintendo or thats just your speculations? Because you made it sound like facts...

3. That's the hardcore way of thinking: People who didn't suffer through the era of Wii U ownership don't deserve to play Zelda.

Every home console always got its own Zelda. If you dont have this homeconsole, you cant play this zelda title. Thats why many people buy every nintendo console.





JNK said:

Even if it makes sense or not, i really doubt that the zelda team does have enough ressources to finish Zelda for wii u AND do the port. The game slooked far from finished in dec. 2014. The most likely reason for the delay is just, that they need more time to finish the wii u version only(as always).

The Zelda team did NEVER before works on a bigger project.

The Zelda team did NEVER before port a game to a completly different system in the same time they worked on a zelda game.

IF Zelda Wii U is already almost finished, they could just release the wii u version and could still bring the remastered version next year to nx. Thats what everybody would do (The last of us). But they didnt, because there is no NX version.

You always assume that Nintendo is stubbornly working on a "Wii U only"-version and the development of an NX-version could only start after the WiiU version is finished.

It doesn't have to be a port! There is a difference between porting something finished and a multiplatform development. Most games are multiplatform developments, both smaller games and AAA-titles, both games from big publishers/developers and from smaller publishers/developers. Different architectures are no big hurdle... most 7th gen games were developed for Xenon (360) and Cell (PS3) and x86 (PC), most 6th gen games were also developed for different achitectures at the same time.

Expanding an engine to support additional platforms or switching the destination platform within development is neither impossible nor uncommon. Nintendo could expand the engine so that it runs on Wii U + NX... perhaps they have done that already without telling you. And most of the assets (textures, 3d-models, sound, music, level design...) are platform independent anyways and could be implemented in different engines.



Conina said:

You always assume that Nintendo is stubbornly working on a "Wii U only"-version and the development of an NX-version could only start after the WiiU version is finished.

It doesn't have to be a port! There is a difference between porting something finished and a multiplatform development. Most games are multiplatform developments, both smaller games and AAA-titles, both games from big publishers/developers and from smaller publishers/developers. Different architectures are no big hurdle... most 7th gen games were developed for Xenon (360) and Cell (PS3) and x86 (PC), most 6th gen games were also developed for different achitectures at the same time.

Expanding an engine to support additional platforms or switching the destination platform within development is neither impossible nor uncommon. Nintendo could expand the engine so that it runs on Wii U + NX... perhaps they have done that already without telling you. And most of the assets (textures, 3d-models, sound, music, level design...) are platform independent anyways and could be implemented in different engines.

yeah maybe..maybe not...maybe nintendo will release zelda on Ps4..maybe nx is a tablet..or a smartphone...maybe..maybe..maybe

This thread is called "Why do people think the next Zelda will be on NX?". Assuming this without knowing

1. What NX is

2. Nintendo SAYING that the game is in development for wii u

3. All the points that each make it a bit unlikely.

Its not that I said its 100% not coming to NX. I said its very unlikely because of dozenz of points. Its still possible, maybe, yeah ur right.

Fact is Nintendo never released a game on 2 different architectures. Smash was made by Bandai Namco and was announced to be on both.

 

There are no real hints that Zelda Wii U will come to NX. 



Most people belive it'll be cross gen and reason being is that NX appears to be coming holiday 2016. If true Nintendo are not going to release Zelda exclusively on a last gen platform the same year they release their new platform. It makes very little business sense and after the failure of the Wii U they will not pass up on another opportunity to have Zelda at launch when its being presented to them so tidily, they will make it cross gen at the least. Ports are hard work but so is making games, pretty much every dev out there has ported from Power PC to X86 in the last 2 years.

The only way I see Zelda U being exclusive on Wii U is if NX is not coming til late 2017 or if the console fully BC and the game comes with classic control support built in.