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It's really not that much. It's the weekend and E3 appears to be coming back, which we all know. Obviously, you know, we heard the news. E3 appears to be coming back. They're at least reaching out to developers to start setting up the show. This sparked all sorts of conversations and ideals to look forward to. As Nintendo fans, of course, we have one game on our minds, quite interesting considering that all of the games that are coming out are pretty amazing this year for Switch. As it sparks a hope, heck, we haven't seen that since E3 last year. Maybe it's paying out of three. We only saw that game once. We need to see more of it. After all, we're kind of overdue for information on that game. But obviously, you know, Metroid Prime 4 is it, right? That's what we're looking forward to is Metroid Prime 4. After all, it was revealed that E3 2017, of course, we're actually just talking about Breath of the Wild 2. So yeah, I might want to just ignore that everyone else has been talking about it lately too. So actually, here's some clips of some of my favorite YouTubers today and a few choice things they said along the way. Enjoy for a second. Because of Pokemon that's coming out this year Scarlet and Violet, that somehow that pushes Breath of the Wild 2 to next year. But one thing that Nate from Direct Feed Games had to say is that he stated that he already knew that Pokemon was going to be a 2022 title. Also, Jordan Fringe, Pokemon Superfan, also felt that that was going to be a 2022 title. But the big thing here is that Nintendo already knew, the Pokemon company Nintendo already knew that Pokemon was going to be a 2022 title before they announced the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 4 2022. So if Nintendo was going to delay it because of Pokemon or anything like that, they could have just done it back then. There was no reason to still go forward with saying, hey, it's 2022. If you knew that Pokemon was already coming, right? But with E3 2022 seemingly being on the table, we go back to the question that we just had. Well, why is the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 not at the February Nintendo Direct? So with E3 2022 seemingly happening, we have to start to look towards the Nintendo Direct that's going to take place during this. Nintendo always does a Nintendo Direct and they're usually really good, but I almost feel like the lines have been a bit blurred with this rise of the digital era and the rise of the digital age because you could argue that the February Nintendo Direct that we got could have been an E3 one. Like if you would have thrown in another game or two, like that thing was stacked. That thing was stacked to the brim with game announcements, trailers, gameplay, everything you really want from one of these presentations. So we have to circle back to the main question. Well, why wasn't Breath of the Wild 2 at that February Direct? Is it going to be at this summer Direct? And when the hell is this game coming out? Because I'm still of the mindset that this is not guaranteed to be a 2022 game. And I know that's going to upset some people. I know that that's going to be, you know, a bit of a hot take or a controversial topic, but we're seeing this happen with lots of games. Think of how many games were supposed to come out in 2021 that ended up getting delayed. Think of how many games that were supposed to come out in 2022 ended up getting delayed. I mean games like For Spoken was supposed to be out like around this time and now it's not coming out until October. Gotham Knights has been delayed as well. It's happening a lot more in the video game industry because of the change in work conditions and things of that nature. Welcome everyone. This is Honest Restart. And this time, we're talking about why the sequel to Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is taking so long. Why are we waiting so long for Breath of the Wild 2? Wasn't this game supposed to be out already? This game is a sequel from Breath of the Wild. It has a foundation with that game. It's been in development for years. And at this point, the development time is looking to be even longer than Breath of the Wild. So I got to thinking. Alright, I was biking around as you do in March when you live in Arizona and it's 82 degrees. You know, I was shooting some B-roll out by the school and I was thinking about this year for Switch. Man, is it amazing. You don't need to hear that from me. You know it. The games just keep coming and the list just gets larger and larger. It's an insane year, probably the best ever. But I was thinking about it in a different way. Like if we get Breath of the Wild 2, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Splatoon 3, Legends Arceus, New Kirby, New Mario Strikers, New Fire Emblem and more, Metroid Bayonetta even, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, what next? Is Nintendo, and pardon me here, blowing their load in 2022 and will that be a problem going forward? Breath of the Wild 2 does drop this year. Switch might be in a little bit of trouble because of how massive the lineup this year is. How the heck can they follow it up? Of course, you could argue that hey, they're not really blowing their entire load. We don't have a new Mario game after Mario Odyssey. That could be something for 2023. Metroid Prime 4 probably going to be a 2023 game. Of course, they don't know what else they're going to come up with, one other sequels or maybe we get a new Paper Mario next year. I don't know. There's a lot of things that are up on the table for debate. But I actually find this topic to be quite interesting because Breath of the Wild 2 is clearly going to be the big game at E3. You know, if E3 happens, which it certainly looks like it's going to, which, oh my god, I can't wait. We have such a massive event for you guys. In fact, we already have a couple giveaway items. Maybe if you guys stick around to the end, you'll see a couple of the items we're going to be giving away during that E3 show. By the way, the show extends Summer Game Fest and E3. So six or seven days long, it's going to be insane. But here's the thing. Breath of the Wild 2 is one of the most anticipated games, I think that's ever existed. And that's quite interesting because obviously, Breath of the Wild became a massively anticipated game after E3 2016. But seeing that the game has sold 27 and a half million units, if you count Wii U sales, which are only about 1.69 million. So it's not like it's a huge amount, but you include that into the total sales number. And yeah, Breath of the Wild is probably going to cross 30 million by the end of this year. That's insane. And that's without a price drop. That's without being bundled in with Switch at any point during its life. That's even without some sort of major sale. Like, yeah, you can regularly find it on Amazon for like $45. But that's Amazon discounting the game. That's not Nintendo. Nintendo did not discount that copy when they sold it to Amazon to resell and upcharge. So yeah, Amazon's just taking out their profit cut and selling it to you for cheaper. But Nintendo hasn't lowered the MSRP. It hasn't had any major sale, hasn't had any major new bundles. I think the last major bundle happened in 2017 or 2018, where they put like a little strategy guide in with it. And it really wasn't a bundle. They just sold it for the same price. And for a time period, you got like a little guide thing with it, which was it was kind of neat. But you know, kind of unnecessary to my opinion. But yeah, Breath of the Wild obviously, recently at IGN actually ranked as the best open world Zelda game of all time. Wait, did I say Zelda game? Sorry, I meant best open world game of all time ranking ahead of Red Ember Demption 2 and Elden Ring, and many, many others, the Witcher 3, etc. It is at the top of the mountain, according to IGN. And we can all talk about how we don't care about these outlets. But the fact remains that 5 years in, Breath of the Wild doesn't seem like it's any less impressive in 2022 than it was back then. So naturally the sequel to one of the greatest games, one of the highest rated, one of the best selling games to ever release, especially best selling on just an individual platform, 25 million units plus, almost 26 million on just the Nintendo Switch alone. That is massively impressive. Horizon Zero Dawn, 20 million units across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC, and they had to discount that game a year later to $10, and they gave it away for free on PS Plus last year for a time for like a month or whatever. So yeah, all that considered to get close to what Breath of the Wild was doing sales-wise on a single platform. Just let that sink in. Breath of the Wild is popular, right? We all know it's amazing, it's stunning. Something about this game from a gameplay perspective just clicks. Not everyone enjoys the way the story is told. I happen to really enjoy it, but it's not everyone's cup of tea. So Breath of the Wild 2 obviously is one of the most anticipated Zelda games of all time, and history will tell you of course that whenever Nintendo gives you a date for a home console Zelda game a year anyways, it's delayed. Twilight Princess 2005, except it didn't come out until 2006 and launched with the Wii. Skyward Sword, going to be 2010, except it didn't come out until 2011. Oh by the way, Breath of the Wild supposed to come out in 2015, then launched until 2017. So there is a pattern of recent history where Zelda games could delay, the link to the past was delayed back in the day, Ocarina of Time was delayed back in the day, so this happens a lot. There was an announced date and Nintendo didn't even see Firm on it. They said we are planning, we are targeting to get this game out in 2022. They didn't even see that Firm on it last year. But things I don't think have changed because at this point we're getting to almost three full months into the year, a quarter of the year gone by, and by now if the game was going to be significantly delayed it probably would have been announced. I don't think that there is any idea that it wouldn't have been announced at this point because people are obviously highly anticipating this game. And I don't think there's any doubt that at E3 2022 whenever Nintendo drops their Nintendo Direct during that event, that there's going to be a big feature on Zelda. I don't know if this feature is going to be five minutes, 15 minutes, two minutes. I don't know, but there are things I expect out of this feature. I expect the title. If it is coming this year, I expect an exact release date. If it is delayed to early 2023, which is why I said a major delay. Delaying it to January, February, March to me would not be a major delay. Delaying it to holiday 2023 or all the way to the next generation platform, that's a major delay. And those are the delays I don't think are going to happen, but they could obviously make it early 2023 if they needed to. I don't think that's going to happen though. I actually think it's going to be dropping this November and Pokemon surprisingly is going to drop in December. I actually think that's the plan and that's why they said late 2022 with the Pokemon game instead of holiday 2022 because late 2022 really infers December, whereas holiday 2022 heavily hints towards November. So I think that this was always the plan. Nintendo knew it. They organized it with the Pokemon company Zelda for November, Pokemon for December. What a massive way to end this year. And this game holds a lot of hopes and dreams for a lot of people from Zelda fans to Nintendo fans to people worried about things like Val Steam Deck taking over and you know, oh my gosh, what's the point of Switch anymore? Val Steam Deck can play Switch games better than Switch, which it can't. Not really. The more intense exclusive Switch games like Super Mario Odyssey don't really run at what you would consider playable frame rates on Val Steam Deck. Now that might change, updates, optimization, all that. So eventually it might be true. The potentials there that it could outperform Switch with Switch games, but it's not there yet. So a lot of people are looking towards Nintendo to go, hey, we need these big games to come out to remind people that you know what? Switch ain't going anywhere. It don't matter what Val's doing. It don't matter what Sony's doing. It don't matter what Xbox is doing. Game Pass, incredible. Horizon Forbidden West, incredible. Elden Ring, hey, From Software, absolutely incredible. Game of the Year contender, little leading Game of the Year contender for general outlets at this time. Probably right now if the Game Awards was today would be Game of the Year. Breath of the Wild doesn't want to be forgotten. Breath of the Wild 2 doesn't want to be forgotten. And it will be interesting to see if it does still come out this year, because I think if they delayed it to next year, Nintendo would be sort of ensuring that Breath of the Wild 2 has a shot at Game of the Year. Whereas this year, that's stiff competition and it's just a shoe-in that it's going to beat out Elden Ring. And we got to get to the review scores even matching at first, let alone the sales. So we'll see what happens. But Breath of the Wild 2 is in a very interesting place, because Elden Ring, I think, rails the bar just a little. It took a lot of what people loved about Breath of the Wild with the exploration and expanded it in different ways, obviously using that Dark Souls formula. Zelda's not going to go with that Dark Souls formula, of course, but they are going to go in their own direction and expand upon what Breath of the Wild set up. And we don't know what that expansion is. We know about some of the new abilities, because they leaked in some patent documents last year. But we don't know how this is all going to come together. How is the gameplay of Breath of the Wild going to actually evolve? Oh, we're in the sky. Oh, we're falling down. Okay, we don't know Sheikah Slate abilities. Do these other abilities live up to the Sheikah Slate abilities? And do they add new fascinating brand new gameplay elements? Does the physics engine evolve? As Andres Restart pointed out, this game has had more development time than the original Breath of the Wild. Where I need to remind you, they had to build a brand new video game engine from the ground up to specifically make Breath of the Wild the way they wanted to. They did not need to do that for the sequel. So the expectations must be sky high. The pandemic can explain some of the time that it's taken, but not all of it. The polish put into this game must be absolutely insane. The size of the world, no matter what is there from the sky to the ground to the underground probably dwarfs Breath of the Wild. I won't be surprised if there's twice as large as Breath of the Wild when everything's put together in terms of just the world and the changes in the world and the craziness of the story. And what happens if Zelda is also playable in a different way? What happens if there's time travel? What happens if there's all this craziness and Skyward Sword and then what if Demise comes back and then, you know, Phi Phi Phophon pops out of your sword at one point because there was a reference to Phi in the original Breath of the Wild besides the Goddess statues? We obviously got Skyward Sword HD last year which could have been a heavy hint that there's a reason that people should be playing that game right now and why we haven't gotten Twilight Princess and Wind Waker yet because they don't want to take away from Skyward Sword that's going to help lead into Breath of the Wild. So Breath of the Wild 2 that is. So there's a lot riding on this game for Nintendo because this is the game that when this comes out we're not getting another one for probably five years. Even if this becomes a trilogy of games which it very well might be. If this is another Zelda game that moves 15, 20 plus million units, Nintendo is making the third. It's going to happen and when they do it's going to be on their next generation system. We're not going to see it. If it drops right now, we're not seeing a new Zelda till 2027 at the earliest. I mean it's possible they get one out sooner. I would suspect 2027 which will probably be right smack dab in the middle of Nintendo's next systems life. Now I do obviously think with the Mario Kart 8 DLC they're going to be launching the next system with Mario Kart 9 or 10 or whatever they end up calling it Crossroads. All the rumors out there. Maybe even the reason we haven't got a new Mario game is they plan to launch that next system with a new Mario game because they know Zelda is not going to be there. They're going to heavily push Mario which hasn't always worked out for them by the way. Super Mario 64 is amazing but the N64 didn't sell that well. So that didn't really work for them. New Super Mario Brothers U is a really nice game but didn't really help the Wii U push units. So Mario Kart though that early in the life cycle would probably be a nice big system seller and who knows what the hell Nintendo has worked on because all these franchises that we're getting this year were Kirby games every year. We're not Kirby games like this. A Kirby game like this probably going to be another two, three years before we see one. You know we got a new Xenoblade game dropping this year. Again probably going to be four or five years before we see a brand new Xenoblade game. Zelda again four or five years etc etc etc for all the amazingness we're getting this year it's going to be a while. It's going to be five years before Splatoon 3. You know we got Animal Crossing back in 2019 but there was an eight year gap or sorry 2020. Eight year gap so we're not seeing that till 2028. Obviously Nintendo will port over a lot of games and do what they need to do even if it's backwards compatible. We'll pack all the DLC with these ultimate editions and deluxe editions and up res and whatever they got to do to sell those games again but bottom line is Breath of the Wild 2 has a lot riding on it because it has to compete with games that have learned from what Breath of the Wild set up yet it also has to compete with itself. Itself is its own competition. Breath of the Wild is so great can a true sequel be even better? You know what? I think we're going to find out later this year. You guys let me know about your hopes and dreams and your thoughts on all of this down in the comments below. I am Nathaniel Alplejans from Nintendo Prime and gosh any excuse to talk about Breath of the Wild 2 is always a great one. Catch you guys in the next video.