why cant nintendo hire me then? i can draw clothing lol

Put her some pants!! Like Sheik

Nah, If you take the first sentence too, about the skirt being a problem, and consider what Miyamoto said on NSMBW, it does sound more like he's reffering to animating the skirt. Still, must be a joke. I mean, Wii's just gone up YoY while media was going crazy with the lazy doomed stuff, Japanese are allowed a sense of humour too :P

You people.

Listen.

It's not laziness. It's not the sole reason that they did it.

What happened was somebody said, "Hey, how about having a Zelda sidekick?"

"Well, John, I don't know if that'd work. The skirt would be hard to animate, and we'd have to build whole dungeons around the co-op between the two of them."

"I guess."

"Shame she isn't like one of the Phantoms."

"....Saaaaaay"

Nobody is allowed to call Nintendo lazy for this until they actually beat Spirit Tracks. BEAT IT. Do you hear me? God, I'm so close to screaming out spoilers it's making my eyes water

are you hinting that Zelda wears pants in the game? Sheik makes a comback? I should ban you for this, I haven't even had a chance to pop the cart in my DS.

I imply NOTHING

But Zelda's walking around aimatd in the game's original debut trailer

It's not a case of them not being assed to animate her, she's right there.

The skirt must have been pre-rendered then. If nintendo's top developers say they can't do it, then obviously it must be very hard to do.

You have Samus in armor. Why can't you put Zelda in armor?

This is the ONE time I will argue that developers ARE lazy.

Go play the game.

They did put her in armor. That's what a Phantom is!

Lazy Nintendo!