Aren't those 2 things Nintendo is a little inept at currently?

And 2nd point, that's fair enough. I just think they're waiting to blow people away again.

Yes, but I wish they weren't.

Yeah, hopefully they will get the hang of it and work faster from here on out...

Don't forget, this is HD we're talking about. Nintendo admitted they struggled during the first year of the Wii U's life to develop HD games due to significant differences between developing SD and HD games. HD cost more and takes more time, especially if you haven't develop within that particular setup before. Plus, they had to develop 3DS games, which is a leap over DS games despite being 240p. I've said this before, developing for both consoles might've caught up to Nintendo as they've developed more smaller projects than usual, like Rainbow Curse, Treasure Tracker, Splatoon, and Ultra Smash. At this point, with technology being more advanced, but more expensive, it won't be easy to support two consoles.

I do wonder how much Zelda U will eventually cost as this is probably their most expensive and biggest project yet. This is Nintendo's first open world...in HD, with a franchise that carries enormous expectations within the gaming community along the likes of Final Fantasy, Fallout, Grand Theft Auto, 3D Mario, etc.

If it had launched in 2015 as initially promised, that would have been 4 years after Skyward Sword. That's reasonable, I can accept that.

5 is just too long in my opinion. Never before has a Nintendo console had to wait until it's on its deathbed to recieve it's first mainline Zelda entry. Link to the Past, Ocarina, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess all arrived in the first 2 years of the SNES/N64/GCN/Wii. Wii U, on the other hand, will pushing or even passed it's 4th birthday if Zelda U comes out this holiday season.

And radio silence doesn't help; when one of your fanbase's most wanted games has been pushed back a year, giving them practically no new material to tide them over is just cruel.

Yeah, hopefully they will get the hang of it and work faster from here on out...

Don't forget, this is HD we're talking about. Nintendo admitted they struggled during the first year of the Wii U's life to develop HD games due to significant differences between developing SD and HD games. HD cost more and takes more time, especially if you haven't develop within that particular setup before. Plus, they had to develop 3DS games, which is a leap over DS games despite being 240p. I've said this before, developing for both consoles might've caught up to Nintendo as they've developed more smaller projects than usual, like Rainbow Curse, Treasure Tracker, Splatoon, and Ultra Smash. At this point, with technology being more advanced, but more expensive, it won't be easy to support two consoles.

I do wonder how much Zelda U will eventually cost as this is probably their most expensive and biggest project yet. This is Nintendo's first open world...in HD, with a franchise that carries enormous expectations within the gaming community along the likes of Final Fantasy, Fallout, Grand Theft Auto, 3D Mario, etc.

Yeah, I did list before those 2 things as the potential reasons why this Zelda is taking so long. Though if true, that does seem a bit of a downer. Usually Ninten is the one leading by example, and now they are kinda falling behind...

I wonder myself how big Zelda is going to be... I can't imagine it being huge like GTA or FFXV...

Well, considering the quality and doing open world, I think it's understandable if they need more time. I'm not sure if Ninten themselves have tackled anything like that before since the 1st Zelda, and to do this well, it may be a lot of work for them to make it as good as possible. So at this point in time, I'm willing to wait one more year for them to finish up on it.

And also, they did show that short bit of it at the last direct, which I thought was pretty good.

Yeah, I did list before those 2 things as the potential reasons why this Zelda is taking so long. Though if true, that does seem a bit of a downer. Usually Ninten is the one leading by example, and now they are kinda falling behind...

I wonder myself how big Zelda is going to be... I can't imagine it being huge like GTA or FFXV...

Oh ok. I missed what you said about that. Well HD is not considerably easy in the first place. I mean, didn't Sony and Microsoft have their own intial struggles when the PS3 and 360 initially released? Nintendo was obviously going to have growing pains with HD. Hopefully, with NX or whatever it'll eventually be, they'll be more prepared.

Not only first true open world, but also first HD Zelda game, and Nintendo already said they had huge problems in HD development at beginning. Also Zelda team done or was involved in so many other Zelda projects this gen, so IMO 5 years developing time for Zelda U is understandable.

From what we saw Zelda U is huge, but definitely will not be big like Xenoblade X (world of Xenoblade X is bigger than Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3's maps combined), also I am pretty sure Nintendo will use this whole year of delay to more populate that huge Zelda U world with content, because one of complains after that TGA video was that world looks little barren.