https://mobile.twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/847618687590727680

He says he's not sure what it does yet though.

Maybe the dev team has performed optimizations for frame rates.

Weapons now evaporate as soon as you pick them up to further increase realism and immersion.

Correction: Weapons have been removed. You must now fight with your bare hands and whatever you find in nature.

But your hands break after a few hits and you have to wait 2 months for them to heal.

Haha, tell ya the truth, weapons breaking aren't a big deal to me, I'm literally stocked full of great ones trying to break them to make room for more good ones lol.

this.

and weapons on hyrule castle respawn with every red moon.

You must also sleep for another 100 years after any death

I'm a little afraid they might not update the Wii U version. Not now, not ever. On the other hand, they wouldn't fix the glitches/exploits, so speedruns would be safe!

Edit: I opened the gaf thread, and the Wii U version was patched as well! Why do people always ignore the Wii U? Oh wait

Performance? Not sure what else it could be, unless it's to add or fix items which would be a bit odd