On Nintendo’s Miiverse and Twitter, The Legend of Zelda for Wii U producer Eiji Aonuma has confirmed that the tentatively titled “Zelda Wii U” is delayed from Fall 2015 into (Fall?) 2016 to make the game better. The Zelda team will be hard at work on the game during the E3 conference in June, so it won’t be shown off there either (but maybe they will have a trailer?).
Here’s a video of Eiji Aonuma explaining why Zelda Wii U has been delayed:
To quote Eiji Aonuma about the delay:
“Hi everyone in The Legend of Zelda community, I’m the producer Eiji Aonuma.
I have a message for you about the latest The Legend of Zelda game for Wii U.
Since I declared at the Game Awards in December 2014 that the game would launch in 2015, the directors and the many members of the development team have been working hard developing the game. In these last three months, as the team has experienced first-hand the freedom of exploration that hasn’t existed in any Zelda game to date, we have discovered several new possibilities for this game.
As we have worked to turn these possibilities into reality, new ideas have continued to spring forth, and it now feels like we have the potential to create something that exceeds my own expectations.
As I have watched our development progress, I have come to think that rather than working with meeting a specific schedule as our main objective, and releasing a game that reflects only what we can create within that scheduled time, I feel strongly that our focus should be to bring all these ideas to life in a way that will make Zelda on Wii U the best game it can possibly be.
So, I must apologise to all of you who were expecting the game by year’s end, but we are no longer making a 2015 release our number one priority. Instead, our priority is to make it the ultimate and most complete Zelda game.
I hope to use the added time to make a Zelda on Wii U that will reward you for your patience, so thank you for your continued support.”
This footage shows the recently revealed vast open world of Zelda Wii U:
Are you happy about the reason for the Zelda Wii U delay?