Official Thread The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild (Wii U/Switch)

Just got this lovely email from Amazon:
We have received new release date information related to your pre-ordered video game in the order you placed on January 12, 2016. The release date for the video game listed below has been changed by the publisher, and we want to provide you with a new delivery estimate based on the new release date:
"The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

Estimated arrival date: March 31, 2017

Mind you, this is for the Wii U version.
 
Game can take its time coming out. *takes cover* I need to do a run of Zelda games starting with the original on the NES classic. Don't think I ever beat that game. At least at this point I don't remember anything. Aside from that I've never beat one. *takes cover again*
 
Rumor: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild canceled on Wii U

http://gametransfers.com/rumor-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-canceled-on-wii-u/

When it seemed that the obstacles were beginning to dissipate in the way of Eiji Aonuma with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a Japanese blog has reported on the massive cancellation of the reservation of the title in its version for Wii U, which added to the technical problems the title would be suffering in the current Nintendo home console, which would have meant that the game has finally been canceled.



Stores like Amazon, GameStop, Yamada Denki and smaller Japanese retailers have canceled the reservations of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Wii U; however, the information pointing to the cancellation of the game are not yet confirmed by Nintendo, so that right now we should label this news as a rumor.

If it is true, we are talking about one of the worst news you could now receive for both the console and buyers of Wii U. Today there are 13 million users who have purchased the system of asymmetric game around the world, a few of them mainly to play the exclusive title of “Zelda” on this console. We will update the news after the official information comes around whether it is confirmed or denied.
 
That's one way to get some Switch sales. I know many who were going to buy a WiiU for Zelda, if they haven't already done so.

Nintendo is really becoming an Atari, EA type dick of a company between this, no price drops for WiiU, and their allowing the scalpathon for the Classic NES with its stupid 2 foot controller cords. Add in their store which won't transfer purchases, crappy online, and I am about ready to completely wipe them out of getting into my wallet again.
 
That's one way to get some Switch sales. I know many who were going to buy a WiiU for Zelda, if they haven't already done so.

Nintendo is really becoming an Atari, EA type dick of a company between this, no price drops for WiiU, and their allowing the scalpathon for the Classic NES with its stupid 2 foot controller cords. Add in their store which won't transfer purchases, crappy online, and I am about ready to completely wipe them out of getting into my wallet again.

Nintendo could stand for some new, read:modern , lifeblood in their decision making process. All the executives or people in a position to say anything in the company are pushing 60+.
 
Well I'll be playing Prey on PC anyways so meh. Like the Wii U (lol) the Switch will be for exclusives only. Everything multi is PC.
 
Nintendo could stand for some new, read:modern , lifeblood in their decision making process. All the executives or people in a position to say anything in the company are pushing 60+.
At the end of the day, MS, Sony and Nintendo are console makers whose biggest differentiator is first party games. Each company can make a game machine as weak or powerful as they want. And nothing makes every third party dev happier than having another platform to sell products.

And talk about corporate coffers, Nintendo has something like a $10 billion warchest. MS might be richer, but they are also a company of many divisions and have a high standard of profitability. MS' CEO isn't going to greenlight spending $20 billion just for the heck of it even if they can afford it. Sony is in the worst financial situation.

Yet, Nintendo acts like the weakest and poorest competitor. Once the market dominating game company to now third string. Like any company I've worked at, if you are the big fish, act it. What's the point of being a huge company with a history of success if you are purposely playing for last place (out of 3). The industry makes profits. The money is out there.

All Nintendo has to do to get the user base up and get more third party devs is actually simple. Make a more powerful system which attracts many devs, and have their first party studios make some more games aside from the handful of Mario and Zelda games. Keep making those, but make some cooler and more realistic games that will attract a more diverse gamer set. And then all the Skyrim's, R* games, EA Sports and such will come.

The reason Ninty gets crap ports, kiddie ports (remember all those gimped EA Sports games like Madden with cartoony 5-on-5 gameplay) and doesn't get those long lasting gamers (onliners or microtrans spenders) is because their games have been relegated to more kiddie and niche. If this was the NES and SNES days, they had it all.... but with good fortune from huge third party dev support. As soon as that dries up, their first party games aren't as special or sell consoles like people think.

If Mario and Zelda are such system sellers, N64, GC and Wii U would dominate. They didn't. Each of them actually got crushed, since their third party support was lousy. Wii struck gold with a $250 system that caught fire with motion controls.... a fad that died fast.
 
That trailer at the end of the presentation brought a tear to my eye. Absolutely gorgeous game. You can feel the magic that this game is going to be. Miyamoto did it again.
 
Nah... the nets been saying for years 900p is a failure so they might as well just not release this now. :really:
 
Only a failure if your games are 900p and they suck. Nintendo's got 99 problems but good games ain't one. :wink:
 
It downgrades to 700p when non docked!

Probably has a better frame rate.
That makes sense, given the screen resolution. Unless they were supersampling, but I imagine the res won't be much issue on the small screen.
 

Switch definitely looks better :) I also notice shadows cast from clouds on the Switch side. Not sure about the color difference, as that's a setting thing but does have the effect of washing out the WiiU version. I suspect that was done to elevate the Switch version a bit.
 


Will take up 40% of the consoles available storage of you dl the game
 
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