Zelda Slips to 2006
Posted by inpheaux on August 16th, 2005 at 7:54 am
I am tearing up right now because I have an eyelash in my eye. I swear that's the reason.
This morning Nintendo announced that the most-anticipated last-hurrah for the Gamecube, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has been pushed to 2006. The main reason cited is that the dev team wants more time to make the game better. That's great and all, and considering the remarks made last month by Aonuma and Miyamoto, time constraints were one of the main reasons behind the few tiny failures of Wind Waker. So I really want them to take their time with this one . . . but I also want it now. I want it yesterday.
To make things worse, IGN reported that a vague release date was given:
"After much discussion, the Zelda development team has requested extra time to add new levels, more depth and even higher quality to Zelda: Twilight Princess," said Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan. "Consequently, we're announcing a new global launch in 2006, after the conclusion of this fiscal year (March 31). We'll provide a specific date at a later point in time."
If the announcement is coming after the end of the fiscal year, that means the earliest we can hope to see the game is April 2006. APRIL! Bah! Eight months from now! That's worse than the wait we'll probably be going through for Final Fantasy 12. We'll all have Xbox 360's, and possibly Playstation 3's. Halo 3 may have already come out by then. So much will be coming out in the next 8 months, and it's incredibly disappointing that Twilight Princess won't be one of them.
As a consolation prize, there's seven new screenshots. Sure, they're pretty and all, but not worth eight months of delay.
We'll live, and we'll still all be buying it upon it's release (whenever that may actually be), but I really hope this ends up being worth the wait. By pushing it back this far, Nintendo has just raised the bar of expectations. We'll see, though.
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