They're showing enough to keep dedicated Nintendo Wii U owners happy but holding a lot back for E3 2016 to re-brand it as a NX title that will still appear on Wii U as promised.

Do you really want them to show footage? Doesn't creating trailers take time? Time they could have been using to develop the game.

According to Reggie they have "great footage" they can show.

Edit: and by that logic they should not show anything until the game is on the shelves.

Do you want to see more of the game? Are you wondering what it looks like and how it will play? Has the year of only 13 seconds footage made you forget about the game or do you desperately wish to see more of it?
There you go.

Nintendo knows how to keep our interest with this one. They've shown us juuust enough to assure us that it's developement is going fine and is steadily on the way, while keeping the audience craving more. That's how you keep interest high, that's how you create hype for a game.

As a counter example, take Ubisofts: Tom Clancy's The Division (on a side note, that was just the stupidest title to have to write just now -___-). They've showed off this game so much already that I was literally bored of seeing it at E3. Especially since they didn't show anything particularily new about it.

Too much exposure to a game before release fatigues the audience and kills the excitement. There is a curve you have to get right, and it's usually a gorgeous early trailer, followed by information tidbits and a loong slow burn of showing just enough to assure people that developement is going well, until about half a year before release, when you come out with more infos, show gameplay, tell people what the meat of the game will be and start up marketing for real.

If you ask me, the next time you're going to see ZeldaU in a big way is probably E3 2016 with gameplay footage, followed up by a holyday 2016 release.

If they already have a lot a footage ready then yeah they should show it over time but we don't know how much they have.

And you're taking the logic too far and not thinking on the margin. You have to reach a balance. It's not all or nothing.

And we don't have a gorgeous early trailer?

Edit: And at this point we knew a lot more from TP, OoT, MM, TWW and SS and as far as I know nobody complained about it, in fact it help to build hype.

Yeah, Nintendo basically lied to us at E3. Reggie said they had "amazing" footage and that they had plenty of opportunities throughout the year to show it off. Well, unless the "amazing" footage was 13 seconds of Link riding Epona through a field, then he pretty much lied about showing it this year. That's the kind of stuff that pisses me off the most.

I'd consider the E3 2014 footage a gorgeous early trailer, but to each their own. :P

I don't remember the buildup to any of those well enough to respond to that adequately, and I'm too lazy to research all of them now to see if that statement is accurate, so why don't you just tell me what you think is really up instead? Clearly you seem to think that you have cought wind of some kind of conspicuous thing going on, so I'm interested to hear what you think it is?

At least we know that sure that is going to be at E3................. right?

My hope is NX version, but even that doesn't makes sense. That's why I'm talking about my concern of Nintendo not showing the game, and even more so after showing and then going silent for an entire year. My fear is that they have problems with development.