Nintendo Lists Zelda U Release Date as TBD in Financial Report

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This is the time of year when everybody is releasing their financial reports for the first quarter of 2015, and in them, Nintendo gave some cause for worry. Nintendo, while reporting release dates for various titles, have curiously left Zelda U's release date as TBD. This is noteworthy due to the fact that every other game except Project Giant Robot receives a release window of some kind (sans one European 3DS release), whether it be a specific season, or just 2016. As everybody was expecting a 2016 release date to be fairly set in stone, it is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out what exactly Nintendo is planning for their Zelda title for the Wii U. Or rather, maybe it is becoming increasingly clear.

There has been speculation since the NX really set the rumor mill ablaze that perhaps Zelda U wasn't going to be so much Zelda U as Zelda U + NX. With the increasing likelihood that, whether it be the NX or something else, Nintendo's home console successor is on the horizon for a 2016 announcement and maybe even late 2016 release date, many sources are speculating more and more that Zelda U may pull a Twilight Princess scenario. The lack of certainty in Zelda's release date could be a lack of certainty in the console successor release date, whether it will be 2016 or 2017 at this point. This is a very real possibility to entertain, and even if it doesn't necessarily follow any trends, it should be considered.

I'm hoping we will all be proven wrong, and that Zelda U will be the exclusive title Wii U owners have been waiting for, but Nintendo's suspicious behavior is causing people to draw some different conclusions. Whether the struggling Wii U will receive this title exclusively has already been a subject of debate on this site ever since Zelda U was delayed to 2016 back in late March.

All of that said, I'd like to ask you all: what do you think? Has your opinion changed? Do you think Zelda U is still guaranteed to be a Wii U exclusive, or is the magic eight ball starting to predict a more uncertain future?

I'll make it clear now that Nintendo reporting the release date this way does not set in stone any kind of facts about the way the game will be releasing, so please be sure to treat your speculation and others appropriately.

:arrow: Nintendo Financial Report - See Page 5
 

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All Nintendo cares about is money. Please stop acting like they even remotely care about you all.

They're a business, of course. But the difference is their guiding philosophy of "make the games fun, and they will come". I like that philosophy and the fruit that it bears, so I tend to buy nintendo. I buy a lot of sony and microsoft, but rarely their 1st party games.
 

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the same way they named the Wii the Gamecube 2, right? Think, kid...
It's funny how someone who is way younger than me calls me a kid :rofl2: You should think for yourself. The Wii had a different philosophy than the Gamecube. It introduced motion gaming and casual gaming to the audience, while the gamecube is a plain game console. That's why it's not called Gamecube 2 (not to mention the Wii doesn't look like a cube, lol). The NX, as already said in this very thread, isn't supposed to replace the Wii U and will use a different architecture than PowerPC. It simply can't be backwards compatible to the Wii U as much as the PS4 is not backwards compatible to the PS3. Deal with it, kid. :P
 

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I know am normally in favor for delayed games, so long as their's a good reason. But at this point, it's become Zelda Forever, delayed to death, then farted out when we least expect it.
 

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If it pulled a TP would the Wii U be the only Nintendo console (other than the VB iirc) that didn't have an exclusive Zelda game (ie the GC had an exclusive before TP in Wind Waker, the N64 had OoT, Wii has Skyward Sword, 3ds has LBW etc.) In other words, would the Wii U be the first console that you wouldn't need to buy if you played every Zelda game on release?
 

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I know am normally in favor for delayed games, so long as their's a good reason. But at this point, it's become Zelda Forever, delayed to death, then farted out when we least expect it.
With the Wii U audience they're catering to a small fanbase so not much of importance, however, if it was on 3DS then it'd probably be completely different.
 

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why nintendo not show more pics or video about zeldaU? if looks like Tombraider (the last) i kill nintendo
 

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Whether it is released on the wiiu or the NX it makes no difference. Either way it will be released on a system that is dead from the beginning :yayu:
It's all about how the big N advertises their next home console but has Nintendo ever been good at it? Rarely.

Microsoft's Xbox the Xbox One has a stupid ass name to it but Microsoft knew how to advertise it properly and let people be aware that it's their new home console rather than the Original Xbox (which should've been Xbox One).
 

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It's all about how the big N advertises their next home console but has Nintendo ever been good at it? Rarely.

Microsoft's Xbox the Xbox One has a stupid ass name to it but Microsoft knew how to advertise it properly and let people be aware that it's their new home console rather than the Original Xbox (which should've been Xbox One).

I know im overtly negative, but often times the past (and present) helps predict the future and nintendo have done absolutely nothing in their past or recent past/present to justify any turn around in their behaviour.

Right now we are repeating conversations that were had at the end of the gcn's life cycle. And while the wii was a boon for the company, was it really a great thing for the core gamer? Not so much.

I'd love to be proven wrong and have nintendo wearing the big boy pants. But really, if it sounds like a donkey, looks like a donkey and has been from created by people who only know things about donkeys, your not suddenly going to get a stallion.
 

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guys, its their first open world game... they're realizing that they've probably created one huge empty world. it takes time to fill it.
 

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