Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@erv The difference is that NX has a date; March. Zelda doesn't. Of course, everyone expects it to be a launch title, but not just call it a launch title then? Because even if it is, there's no surprise anyway. They went even out of their way to remove ''March'' from their Zelda press site. I think that means that they haven't pinned an exact date, and that a release in March is not set in stone yet.

@Octane Well if we're to take the Ubisoft comments as the reality then BotW won't be the most important NX title for Nintendo but instead some gimmicky game along the line of what Wii Sports was for the Wii. Hence BotW not needing to be a launch title.

@Grumblevolcano I just hope that Yves doesn't know what he was talking about.

Any console that is supposed to get me excited about just dance makes me sceptical.

Then again, the wii was full of shovelware but also with great games that I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on.I'm not the one to buy petz: simz editionz but was very happy about some of the great games.

Hopefully zelda is just one of the many for the nx

I truly hope for their sake it's a launch title. Since we already pretty much know that there won't be a big Mario game at launch either. Unless they have something truly attention grabbing like Metroid or another popular IP, then releasing in March would be pointless. At that point I'd say just release it for the holidays with Zelda.

And how do we know there won't be a Mario title at launch? There's no hard evidence supporting that. Heck, we don't know anything about what will be launched with the NX (aside from maybe Just Dance)

@Operative Chances of a Metroid game being ready for March are extremely slim. Definitely not a Prime game, but I don't think Sakamoto is working on something either.

@Octane I know, it was just an example. They need something more compelling than NX sports or new Super Mario brothers: generic edition

Also, I gotta find the article but the way miyamoto spoke heavily implied it wouldn't be there for launch. Which isn't unusual, Galaxy wasn't a launch game either.

Just have Zelda, Mario Kart (ideally a new one), and Smash 4 at launch with Metroid Prime, Mario, and Pikmin announced for 2017. That's all they need to do.

I'm 99% sure someone at E3 said March. Can't remember which of the hundred different videos it was in though.

No one said March for Zelda. Some may have implied it

I think if anyone said March it was either a mistake or assumption based on also being given the release month of the NX coupled with the announcement that it would launch the same day as the wii u. People connected that to the launch month. But officially, there is no release month. Would not be surprised if it's holiday 2017. I'm actually expecting it.

Ah yeah I forgot about that.

Did you watch 100% of videos at E3?

I know they didn't officially say it but I think one of their staff did in an off-hand comment.

Their staff says a lot of things, like Gamecube games on Virtual Console. It doesn't mean squat unless it's a 100% genuine official announcement

When did anyone say that?
Maybe that was intended at one point and then abandoned.

I literally dreamed that I found new Breath of the Wild footage on YouTube. This is where my dreams are at :/

I'm wondering if the U version will have 'data packs' similar to Xenoblade X to help with how the game runs. From the footage I've seen there's still a lot of pop-in.

@-SD- Well if the NX is a disc based home console, Nintendo may bring in the forced disc install approach that the XB1 and PS4 have to make the game run properly. Don't know whether cartridge based would have the same impact if we're talking very large (memory) cartridges, @WebHead or @skywake would probably know.

I firmly believe that the NX is cart based, so that would indeed remove the need for data packs, if that is the case.

The U however is going to need as much help as possible it seems to run something of this scope.