 Hey everyone, welcome back to another round of Zelda inquiries today. I am joined by Darren our managing editor Yo, say what's up, man? What's going on? Yep And also a special guest whom I didn't even know existed until today Oh in fact because I don't have the screen up. Oh, yeah, that's right a rabid luigi Out today is our youtuber. Oh, I didn't know you didn't know who I was. Oh, I feel bad now I might just leave. I'm like, I'm I'm just I'm gonna go. I'm doing it. I'm fine. Yeah. Hello everybody. How you doing? Well like Darren, uh He said do you want rabid luigi on I'm like who the heck is he then you just linked me a youtube channel? I'm like, okay. Oh this video. That's good. Next thing I know you've friended me and I'm like, what is going on? What is this? It's okay. I'm sure I mean you got a lot of subscribers. I'm sure you do good work I just yeah, that means something busy today. I haven't had a chance to even Haven't even had a chance to check out your videos, but I probably should maybe there's some zelda stuff We should there's some zelda stuff in there somewhere I'm I'm doing twilight princess hd as a let's play so you can watch that if you like, you know Just throwing that out there. I'm not plugging anything. I'm just I'm just you know Just a little self put it in my background. Yeah put it in my background as I'm doing work. Yeah And you know it you don't know this but as I'm recording I actually have twilight princess hd On my tv in the background. Good man Of the video it is my backdrop. So it's like yeah, that's good Yeah That's good. All right, so We're gonna get right into it. You guys asked a lot of very good questions this time around And this question is obviously extremely prevalent given the recent news Uh, and if you haven't heard the recent news, you're about to hear some of it anyways Um, Curtis sequoia on our facebook page They want to know what our thoughts are on the new zelda game being delayed Um, I will let rabid luigi run with this first since darin and I actually talked about this on a Another thing we do at the site Well for a start sequoia is a sensational surname. That's just you know, that's that's uh, you know We could talk about zelda in a little bit. That's a good name, but I think zelda zelda we use zelda nx being delayed until 2017 I was hearing on twitter see I saw a tweet saying it might not be much 2017 It could be some time in 2017, which is Just more bad news. It's bad news in the sense that I want to play this game I I would like to experience this zelda game which we've been hearing about for the for the past three years and not really We haven't really heard an awful lot about it. We know Uh, some mechanics. We know what it looks like. We know what link looks like. We don't know what it's called We don't we just about know what console it's for and we don't know Anything about the game. We know we know a little bit. That's the problem as a fan I want to play that so that's bad news as a as a lover of nintendo and Kind of wanting the nx to do well if they're delaying it in such a way that Helps the nx with a good launch if it's a launch title I kind of like that idea because it's it's helping that it's it's learning lessons from the wii u which didn't have a great launch and Delaying it in such a way that the nx has a better launch and maybe has you know If the console does well you can get other titles for other series and more zelda games I don't know as a fan bad news as kind of a Lover of nintendo and seeing it's like a business idea It's it's not such a bad idea and not such a you know a bit of bad news, but I don't know. It's It's kind of a you don't know at this point. That's the problem It's a walk in the dark a stab in the dark and what they're doing could be a good idea. We have no idea That's that's the problem I can go along with that. Yeah Yeah, I mean it really is um It's weird the the whole situation surrounding it is weird because the nx was announced to be in march And we don't know anything about the nx like at all. We don't even know officially that it's a home console So it's really it's one of those weird things where like the news comes out about our release date before we know anything else about the information and obviously for For zelda u in particular. This is the third time. We've heard a launch year for the game Um, and we all know what happened the last two times they've done that it hasn't gone well But i'm not saying that's going to delay it out of 2017. I highly doubt we're seeing a third delay of the game Now it's weird because uh, there was originally on the press site Um, it did say that zelda u is coming in march 2017 and as of today, they have removed the march part Yep on the press site. So now it just says 27 Which kind of scares me because it's like if it was going to come out at the launch of the nx um, that's great but Now it's like okay someone jumped the gun and nintendo took it off the site. So Is it really not coming till? holiday 2017 that's a long ways away. It'll come in march Like i'm telling the thing is okay. So this e3 this e3, right? The only thing nintendo the only positive thing i'd say for zelda fans um coming out of the recent investors meeting or whatever it was there their end of year That quarterly report there end of fiscal year report The only positive they come out as they said basically that zelda u is going to be completely blown out at e3 Like e3 is pretty much dedicated to zelda u Uh, that's fantastic. But like how can you do that to a game if it's not going to come out for like 18 months? It's it feels like you're blowing out a game way too soon If it's still a year and a half away And i'm not saying i don't want to see anything for zelda u of course i do But i mean a huge blowout i don't even remember last time we even had a huge blowout for a zelda game Because it's always they've always trickled information out Uh, and for zelda u they've done the exact opposite. They announced it They trickled a little bit in december at the game awards and then they're like, yeah, we're done talking about this game And here we are like, you know a year and a half later And they still haven't talked about this game outside of saying hey, we're gonna talk about a lot of it at e3 um so the delay itself is scary In that uh, nintendo seemed to indicate it would it would launch with the nx and now We don't know if that really indicates it's launching with the nx Uh, we do know it will be on the nx And it would make sense if this delay was just so it could launch with the nx because We have to look at it honestly the wii u had sold like i think the updated numbers now are 12.8 million So almost 13 million consoles. They're only projecting to sell 800 000 consoles in this upcoming fiscal year Or this current fiscal year that runs through next year april or may or whatever and it's That's not good um The wii u as much as i love it and as much as i love the games it has It has not done well And i i understand a delay for it to be on nx I don't understand a delay for it to be on nx like six months after launch Or eight months after launch But again, we don't know. I mean, we're probably going to find out at e3 They're going to be if they're really blowing out the game. They're going to have some pretty concrete information um And i'm going to be at e3, you know playing i'm assuming they're going to have a demo It'd be really weird if they didn't if they didn't if there is no demo at e3 Even though they said it would be playable. They didn't say how it would be playable um So if like there's no free play demo and it's just like a little tech Demonstration of like the new control scheme or whatever they're doing um That will really scare me that it's not coming out until the end of 2017 But i might mean if i if i'm a betty man and i love betting so i am a betty man um Any money i have left in my bank after my e3 trip i would put towards the fact that You would be coming out the day the nx launches as a launch title And when i think about it like that, i mean it's a four month delay in that case Um four month delay is not that bad i can handle that That's that's okay. Yeah into all the people who are freaking out because 2017 uh, well i mean march 2017 was removed On just 2017 stays next to zelda wii u at the press site That means nothing That just means someone got a little trigger happy and put march next to it If they wanted everyone to know it came out in march They would have said that in the investors meeting which they didn't someone got a little too trigger happy and put march on there People are thinking oh, it's another delay. It was going to come out in march, but now it's going to come out later It's not it's going to come out in march. You know that someone just got a little too trigger happy Well, I don't want to say what you know, I know believe me The only thing that I could say That we've probably known before we found out about it was that this was going to be An nx and wii u title at least I was pretty confident of that fact Uh, the moment I wasn't so sure of it last year But the moment that rumors started swirling from the sdk's that got out that uh nx might launch this year I was like All right, it's probably getting moved to nx. It's they're not going to launch it for wii u exclusive within a year Of launching new hardware. Like they spent way too much money on this game Um, yeah, they're going to want it to sell as many copies as it can and I know it seems counterintuitive Like why release is all the game outside of the holidays if holidays are the best sales season? Well There's examples of plenty of games that come out before the holidays and sell just fine So I don't think holidays are indicative of success for a game I think the game being really well received and getting lots of positive word of mouth Is a bigger sign of a game selling better And if since nintendo is probably not going to be able to convince anyone out there Besides diehard nintendo fans to consider buying a wii u to play it Uh, they have to hope that the nx is extremely appealing And that people will be like, all right, cool. The nx is appealing and oh, I can have zelda day one. All right, I'm there now I think that's what nintendo is banking on. So I You know, there's some people that are upset. I am not one of those upset people Um, I'm sorry if that disappoints you guys Yeah, like I'm not upset either. I'm expected another delay. Put it this way You know what if e3 comes and they're like, yeah, this is coming out november 2017 All right, I'll join them. I'll I'll be in h.m.k. There'll be a boss man episode and I'll be busting out the swear words. All right You'll finally see the boss man legit get PO'd after this after that zelda. You can go after it Yeah, I I will I will start dropping some out because now I've been arguing this whole time about business logic and making sense And that zelda u being on the nx, you know, if the nx is delayed that means zelda u is going to be delayed Um, I I fully am a proponent of the business side of it But if the business side of it says, yeah, we're not doing it at launch, we're gonna wait until november Yeah, okay. I'm I'm I'm gonna let nintendo have it. All right. If you guys have been waiting for me to do that Just it might be coming. I hope it's not coming, but it might be Um, got anything else to add darin not really you I mean you pretty much summed everything up I would say, okay I had a little bit I had a little but I was just gonna say that um From the perspective of a fan and you know, everyone here is a fan It's kind of this It's the it's more than the fact that's been delayed and the fact that's delayed onto the nx That's not a problem. He's gonna help the nx. That is fine The the issue the the thing I have issue with is the lack of information about it I mean We it's a big series and Zelda will shift copies whatever console it's okay Maybe not this it would do something with the Wii U. It would do it wouldn't help the Wii U be a good console But it would shift a decent amount Regardless you could put it on a toaster and it will probably shift toasters, but the problem is We haven't learned anything about it really since you know in the in the two years three years If I have one thing that I will be I was critical of uh Of a lot of things, but I was critical of nintendo Uh Not doing this before and they kind of did it again where they announced a delay But then they don't give us anything to wet our appetite. You've got to give a hook And I'm not talking about like another game to they're not going to give us like we so We they revealed it at e3 2014 and we still have not actually gotten a true trailer for the game We haven't got a title. It's crazy. No one is cold. What's it called? Like they could have tea like even especially like yeah, please look forward to the legend is all blah blah blah whatever the name is And it's released in 2017 and it's gonna be on the index like boy. Okay. You just gave us something Something um right now they've given us nothing Um, it's really upsetting but uh Yeah Yeah, I I'm I'm with you on You know if you're gonna announce these delays you need to give us something No, I understand e3. We're getting a whole bunch But we kind of expect that it's it's odd that we get so much It's it's it's kind of having Yeah, why it's like why are you putting it all in the e3? I don't have like three years information Three years of nothing don't give us e3. Don't give us like one big chunk. Yeah. Yeah, don't give us one big chunk Just give us bits of information. Maybe every month or every couple months Yeah, totally with you on that It was all right, so uh, there you go Curtis that next question. Yeah, then that's okay We can we can be ranting on and on about god, then I don't give us more. We'll be here all day. We can all turn into So thank you. Yeah, right. Thanks Curtis for your question. Um or your inquiry