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Aostia · Mar 28, 2015

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/27/the-legend-of-zelda-for-wii-u-has-been-delayed

" Because wed like to focus on developing the game, we arent planning on showing it at this years E3, where we will be highlighting games launching in 2015."

remember the infamous launch window? they were focused only on that at 2012 E3. and we know how that turned out. in January 13 and at last year E3 they gave a good wide look at a longer time period. now they are shrinking back the PR to a limited timeframe once again.
I see this as the last nail on Wii U coffin.

RIP Wii u.

NeOak · Mar 28, 2015

This will end well

Not.

JimJamJones · Mar 28, 2015

Oh boy, you've done it now.

Vaughngief · Mar 28, 2015

I think we should just wait until E3 to say anything.

jholmes · Mar 28, 2015

I don't see this as a nail in a Wii U coffin. Maybe I should make a thread too?

Broken Joystick · Mar 28, 2015

RIP Wii U.
Only XCX, Mario Maker, Star Fox, Zelda, Kirby, Devil's Third, Splatoon and more to come.
But yeah, RIP Wii U.

Jigolo · Mar 28, 2015

I've been saying Zelda U is likely the last major WiiU title. NX in 2017

Sendou · Mar 28, 2015

"where we will be highlighting games launching in 2015"

What are those? Games releasing in Q3-Q4 that is. Going to be one hell of a dry E3.

Seik · Mar 28, 2015

I hope they have some new games in their pockets or else it'll be a damn short E3 for them.

I assume they have, though. Nintendo usually is good at keeping secrets.

Well...more than others.

Mpl90 · Mar 28, 2015

Quoting myself from the other thread

Mpl90 said:
How many times do I have to repeat this before people get it? It's a spokeperson who (99.9%) doesn't know ANYTHING about Nintendo's E3 plans, thus he/she can only reiterates what's known: Nintendo will surely highlight 2015 games at E3. But this is it: it doesn't mean at all we won't get 2016 games, this is just what we know/can imply so far about Nintendo at E3. Why is people giving so much importance to those words is mindblowing to me...never seen PR answers in your lives?

This thread shouldn't even exist: it's based on an almost pre-made PR response, they won't tell you what's in store for E3 before Nintendo itself officially announces it. Please, try to think.

Shiggy · Mar 28, 2015

Wasn't this pretty much expected based alone on today's sales and the remaining lineup? 2015 looked like a farewell year from the beginning with a few Nintendo first party titles that make the overall drought on the platform well bearable.

pinkurocket · Mar 28, 2015

Welp. I'm not going to jump from conclusions from that... :I

Chemical Rampancy · Mar 28, 2015

Can't get this picture working

ElectricBlanketFire · Mar 28, 2015

Isn't this their policy with every E3 recently?

DragonSworne · Mar 28, 2015

So no new game announcements at E3, unless there is some surprise 2015 game. Hopefully Star fox is a big enough deal.

Inuhanyou · Mar 28, 2015

I won't say Wii U had a good run as there's hardly a handful of games i ever was interested in the system for. But it was an interesting experiment.

Hopefully their next console is BC with the Wii U(not Wii) and actually has a normal control scheme for all games with a normal ass controller as standard. Then i'll pick one up

That being said, we won't know what they'll be showing till they actually provide an official list

CaviarMeths · Mar 28, 2015

They had a heavy focus on 2014 games at E3 last year too. Not exactly a eulogy.

cyba89 · Mar 28, 2015

No we've entered crazy-town.

PattonFiend · Mar 28, 2015

How is this thread not closed yet?

dampflokfreund · Mar 28, 2015

Yep, it's sad to see but I guess E3 really will show how dead the Wii U really is

MatrixMan.EXE · Mar 28, 2015

jholmes said:
I don't see this as a nail in a Wii U coffin

Well of course, the Wii U has been dead for some time now. Tis no secret.

For 2015 we have, what? Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Yoshi's Wooly World, Kirby (still not out here in the UK) and Star Fox. Hopefully a couple of surprises at E3, but that's better than previous year to me. I only bought 3 Wii U games in 2013. 4 in 2014 and theres 5 I want this year. Not bad.

maxcriden · Mar 28, 2015

Aostia take your finger off the panic button bro

Read mpl's post above. There is no real reason to worry.

jholmes · Mar 28, 2015

Sendou said:
"where we will be highlighting games launching in 2015"

What are those? Games releasing in Q3-Q4 that is. Going to be one hell of a dry E3.

You don't know what games they could announce at E3, so you assume they have no games to announce at E3? Seems fair.

OrbitalMatrix said:
Well of course, the Wii U has been dead for some time now. Tis no secret.

Mine still plays games fine so it's a secret to me.

Mysterious · Mar 28, 2015

Broken Joystick said:
RIP Wii U.
Only XCX, Mario Maker, Star Fox, Zelda, Kirby, Devil's Third, Splatoon and more to come.
But yeah, RIP Wii U.

Splatoon and Kirby will be out by the time E3 comes around. Nobody really cares about Devil's Third. XCX would be out in Japan by this point. Mario Maker isn't a full fledged game. Zelda isn't going to be at E3.

abstract alien · Mar 28, 2015

Vaughngief said:
I think we should just wait until E3 to say anything.

Stop being logical.

Red Hood · Mar 28, 2015

Jigolo said:
I've been saying Zelda U is likely the last major WiiU title. NX in 2017

Why are people so sure this NX is the successor to the Wii U? Unless you know something I haven't read yet, I was fairly sure NX was a platform for Nintendo's mobile endeavours...

Zalman · Mar 28, 2015

People sure like jumping to conclusions.

DragonSworne · Mar 28, 2015

PattonFiend said:
How is this thread not closed yet?

Why should it be closed?

I agree with the OP. I see the delay of Zelda as a sign of Wii U finally being done with. I can't imagine new projects starting on Wii U. I think everything will go forward as NX titles starting with Zelda and FExSMT.

Pandy · Mar 28, 2015

PattonFiend said:
How is this thread not closed yet?

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Son Of D · Mar 28, 2015

Sendou said:
"where we will be highlighting games launching in 2015"

What are those? Games releasing in Q3-Q4 that is. Going to be one hell of a dry E3.

You do know that games can be announced at E3 right?

Sandfox · Mar 28, 2015

Nintendo always says this kind of thing for their directs and we still get games outside of the focused time frame so I wouldn't read too much into it.

CaviarMeths · Mar 28, 2015

I just noticed that you literally just took a link from the other thread and used it to start a new OP.

I'm new here. Is this shit... normal?

DragonSworne · Mar 28, 2015

Red Hood said:
Why are people so sure this NX is the successor to the Wii U? Unless you know something I haven't read yet, I was fairly sure NX was a platform for Nintendo's mobile endeavours...

Because Wii U is a spectacular failure and Nintendo is scrambling to get a new console out? Better late than never I say. I feel they should have released NX in 2014.

Shiggy · Mar 28, 2015

Red Hood said:
Why are people so sure this NX is the successor to the Wii U? Unless you know something I haven't read yet, I was fairly sure NX was a platform for Nintendo's mobile endeavours...

Do you think Nintendo can support three platforms at once? They don't have third party support. At this point, the 3DS lineup for this year doesn't look too promising. Not sure why they focus on a dead console such as Wii U instead of producing games that sell.

cacildo · Mar 28, 2015

So...

they will use the whole E3 to talk about 2015 games which means they wont talk about any new system = RIP WIIU

ok

Striek · Mar 28, 2015

Broken Joystick said:
RIP Wii U.
Only XCX, Mario Maker, Star Fox, Zelda, Kirby, Devil's Third, Splatoon and more to come.
But yeah, RIP Wii U.

Almost literally only those games to come. Its a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry sad list. Even IF they all make it.

Mpl90 · Mar 28, 2015

DragonSworne said:
Why should it be closed?

I agree with the OP. I see the delay of Zelda as a sign of Wii U finally being done with. I can't imagine new projects starting on Wii U. I think everything will go forward as NX titles starting with Zelda and FExSMT.

DragonSworne going fully with every possible negative scenario. How I am not surprised by this.

The jumping to conclusion in this thread based on a PR-like response is irritating me: haven't we learned everything in all these years, gentlemen? Don't take that seriously anything that isn't coming directly from Iwata, Reggie (much less Reggie though) and their likes in each and every videogaming company in the earth. I still remember how MK7's bug wouldn't have been fixed at all.

Son Of D · Mar 28, 2015

Sandfox said:
Nintendo always says this kind of thing for their directs and we still get games outside of the focused time frame so I wouldn't read too much into it.

Yeah there's this as well. A direct last year focusing on early 2015 games had Kirby in the EU direct despite it being a May game here.

CaviarMeths said:
I just noticed that you literally just took a link from the other thread and used it to start a new OP.

I'm new here. Is this shit... normal?

New thread for new news. Although people do jump the gun with thread making.

JoeM86 · Mar 28, 2015

Bit of a jump. We've had big games revealed at E3 and out the same year numerous times.

Relax

ffdgh · Mar 28, 2015

CaviarMeths said:
I just noticed that you literally just took a link from the other thread and used it to start a new OP.

I'm new here. Is this shit... normal?

New thread for new news rule tho I'm not quite sure it works in this case.

Wait until E3 before casting doom...ok more doom lol.

maxcriden · Mar 28, 2015

You guys will feel better when we get a Nintendo Durrctvon Tuesday or Wednesday. There's a lot of evidence one is coming, and BoxBoy will likely be the post-Direct immediate release.

In fact, the Zelda news was likely filmed for the Direct but then excised to be its own thing so the Direct wouldn't be tainted by disappointing news.

#Nintendoptimism

jholmes · Mar 28, 2015

DragonSworne said:
Because Wii U is a spectacular failure and Nintendo is scrambling to get a new console out? Better late than never I say. I feel they should have released NX in 2014.

Maybe you should fax your resume over to Nintendo. You're wasting your brilliant ideas on the likes of us here.

I almost wish Iwata didn't mention the NX so idiots like you could infect every thread with bullshit about Nintendo going third-party. At least it'd beat this obsessive hatred of the Wii U.

JoeM86 · Mar 28, 2015

maxcriden said:
You guys will feel better when we get a Nintendo Durrctvon Tuesday or Wednesday. There's a lot of evidence one is coming, and BoxBoy will likely be the post-Direct immediate release.

In fact, the Zelda news was likely filmed for the Direct but then excised to be its own thing so the Direct wouldn't be tainted by disappointing news.

#Nintendoptimism

I would be very, very surprised if we don't get one this week

Taker666 · Mar 28, 2015

Why not RIP 3DS?

...we know even less in regards to content on that for the western market this year/next year.

Neff · Mar 28, 2015

And they're off!

The Boat · Mar 28, 2015

I'm sad I won't be playing Zelda U this year, but threads like this make me laugh so it isn't all bad.
Seriously, they delayed a game for quality reasons and were upfront about it, they could use it this holiday season and they won't sacrifice quality for sales. The response? People go batshit crazy.

They'll announce new games at E3, the fact that ONE game got delayed and won't show up at E3 doesn't spell out anything for Wii U.
Wii U is dead sales wise, nothing will change that. They'll keep releasing games for it, Zelda will come out, Wii U will have 4-5 years lifespan and life will go on.

Sendou · Mar 28, 2015

jholmes said:
You don't know what games they could announce at E3, so you assume they have no games to announce at E3? Seems fair.

Son Of D said:
You do know that games can be announced at E3 right?

Sure. I'm just trying to remain some level of realism looking back. It's not unheard of them to announce games at E3 to be released later that year. It's also not unheard of them to then later delay those games (Captain Toad and Donkey Kong). Other than that I can't think of many examples in the last five years or so that would raise my expectations very high. It's probably best to accept that Wii U will peak with Splatoon and after that phasing out begins.

Red Hood · Mar 28, 2015

DragonSworne said:
Because Wii U is a spectacular failure and Nintendo is scrambling to get a new console out? Better late than never I say. I feel they should have released NX in 2014.

Shiggy said:
Do you think Nintendo can support three platforms at once? They don't have third party support. At this point, the 3DS lineup for this year doesn't look too promising. Not sure why they focus on a dead console such as Wii U instead of producing games that sell.

I know the Wii U is doing shit, but the NX (as far as they've told us) is strictly for their mobile business and has nothing to very little to do whatsoever with their home console. So according to you that means Nintendo won't have a home console at all in the time period between Wii U's death and the new home console?

I find that hard to believe.

maxcriden · Mar 28, 2015

JoeM86 said:
I would be very, very surprised if we don't get one this week

How psyched are you for BoxBoy though? At this point I'm trying to finish MM in tune to play it when it drops. Qbby is the cleverest character name in ages.

CaviarMeths · Mar 28, 2015

Son Of D said:
New thread for new news. Although people do jump the gun with thread making.

I could see that if OP didn't know it was already posted in the other thread.

From other thread:

bud23 said:
RIP Wii U.

Aostia said:
is the 2015 quote real? if so, RIP wii u indeed.

bud23 said:
yes

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/27/the-legend-of-zelda-for-wii-u-has-been-delayed

And so Aostia took that link and made a new thread. Seems less "jumping the gun," more "not enough people cared in the other thread, so I made a redundant one."

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