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Nintendo Dismisses October Zelda Launch

Posted by Zonk on from the we-can-dream,-can't-we? dept.

Nintendo is dismissing rumours of an October launch for the newest Legend of Zelda title as nothing more than hearsay. From the GamesIndustry.biz story: "We haven't announced any potential release dates for the new Legend of Zelda title. Everything published to date is entirely speculation and we hope to announce more about the game at E3 in May."

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  1. SND? by grub · · Score: 3, Interesting


    When a company's denials of a rumour make it to /. I know it's a slow news day.

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  2. Why wait? Buy now! by aztektum · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why not just stop by your local EB Games? They apparently already have it in store

    Is pre-ordering a game really that necessary anymore? There was >1 million pre-orders for Halo 2 and I still saw plenty on the shelves when it shipped. I can even find copies of WoW in my area and have been able to since it was released as well.

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    1. Re:Why wait? Buy now! by Ra5pu7in · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Try finding Devil May Cry 3 in the first week. It's a balance of the initial expected sales and the actual demand. Sometimes way less sell than were expected (>1 million pre-orders doesn't tell you how many were duplicates by people covering all the bases) and sometimes early demand is even better than planned.

      It's also dependant on where you look and where in the country you are. When you live in a metropolitan area with populations over a million, games seem to sell out more often. Shop at EB Games and Gamestop and you'll find they routinely sell out - and never know how or when they'll get their next batch. Drive over to Toys 'R' Us and they might have a few copies sitting around. Ditto for Circuit City or Media Play or Fry's Electronics, which are not primarily game stores ... so they sometimes have a few copies sitting around.

      Pre-ordering a game is only necessary if 1) it has reached a certain level of hype, 2) you know the store you go to is likely to sell out, and 3) you absolutely must have it the first day.

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  3. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    4 years?

    The Zelda shown at SpaceWorld years ago was a tech demo that showcased progress on a previous, unrelated Zelda game. Look at the character model; it's very different from that of Zelda 2K5. It is the project that was put on the back burner to make way for Wind Waker.

    Work on this new Zelda was started after Wind Waker. Aonuma-sensei has stated that this is a new project.

    So this title has been announced once (@ E32K4) and delayed never. That is the deal here, fellow Zelda fan.

  4. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by satoshi1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead we get some POS cell-shaded kiddie game.

    Have you even played it? It is anything but a POS. Honestly, I'm kind of disapointed they went with the new look. The cel-shaded look was unique, it added style to the game and it looked damn good.

  5. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by TheGuano · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you even played it? It is anything but a POS. Honestly, I'm kind of disapointed they went with the new look. The cel-shaded look was unique, it added style to the game and it looked damn good. Ditto, WW was the first console game I picked up after YEARS of hardcore PC gaming, and it was such a breath of fresh air. The evel of detail, production values, gameplay...just wow. The new Zelda does look very good, and I think the "standard anime" style works in that it places the game in a darker, more serious place. But I also wish we could see more of the WW-style cell-shading. Guess there's always Revolution to look forward to.

  6. Plenty of other games to fill the void by PoderOmega · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty of other epic and exciting Gamecube games to fill the void between RE4 and when this new Zelda gets released. Please respond to this post with the names, like I said, I'm SURE they are out there. I'm just not sure what they are called.

    1. Re:Plenty of other games to fill the void by focitrixilous+P · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Killer 7 looks decent, recieved some pretty get preview style reviews, has about every ESRB violence modifier, crazy cool art style.

      Donkey Konga: Jungle Beat comes out today, with arcade style play.

      Nothing really on the scale of a Zelda game, but when in the past few years has Nintendo been about Quantity rather than Quality? I'd rather have one epic every 6 months than a conveyer belt of mediocrity.

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  7. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by SetupWeasel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish they'd made a sequel to WW with the same style and engine.

    I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

  8. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by miyako · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really liked the look of WW, but IMO it was barely passable as a Zelda game.
    My biggest problem was the last half of the game, sailing around that damned ocean forever searching for triforce fragments and trying to get rupees to buy tingle maps. The warps helped a little, but it seemed to me that the game really failed where OOT shined, in making the world feel vast, but still dense.
    The quality of the zelda games seems to be going down lately, OOT was really great, but Majora's Mask seemed a little rushed to me, it lacked the refinement of OOT. Four Swords seemed like an attempt to sell a crappy game just on the zelda branding (though to be honest, I never explored the game that much in depth).

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