Zelda: Twilight Princess delayed. Again.

Ugly · 02-26-2006, 08:42 PM

Dunno if y'all missed this, but its going from April 06 to fall 06. Well, that's about a solid year past its original date. I hope this just wasn't so Nintendo would have a Q4 release and something to show off at E-3. Though they seem to be hinting at an added Revoultion capability as well. Hmph.

During an interview with veteran game journalist Geoff Keighley on the most recent episode of Spike TV's new "Game Head" video game program, Nintendo of America's Executive Vice President of Marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, let slip some rather unfortunate news concerning their upcoming flagship title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

You already know what I'm about to say, so I'll just go ahead with it: Twilight Princess has been delayed again, this time to fall of 2006. Fils-Aime was apparently very candid about this fact as well, not offering any apologies or reasons as to why Nintendo keeps delaying what is arguably the number one most anticipated game of the year for many gamers.

Fils-Aime also addressed some of the rumors concerning Twilight Princess that have been running rampant lately, such as Nintendo holding the game back on purpose to launch it on the Revolution instead.

"It's coming out in the fall, it's coming out on GameCube," said Fils-Aime. "There's been a lot of speculation. People have been saying that we're holding it back or that it's gonna be launched just on Revolution. Tell your people 'Not true,' it's gonna be out on GameCube, it's gonna be out in the fall."

Keighley also took this opportunity to address another rumor going around, asking Fils-Aime about whether or not Twilight Princess would have Revolution-only special features (such as a special control scheme) available only to those who played the game on Nintendo's upcoming console. Fils-Aime, of course, played coy. "It's a great idea," he said. "You should talk to Shigeru Miyamoto about it. But right now the focus is on GameCube."

Is Reggie telling the truth, or does he know something he's not telling us about? Who can say - but all that really matters is that none of us are going to find out until sometime this Fall now. Let's hope the game doesn't suffer any more delays...

Update - It's worth adding that Reggie made some intriguing comments regarding Twilight Princess and the Revolution controller in the latest EGM:

"The trick will be what makes it special on Revolution, and to the extent that we could create something like that, boy, wouldn't that be fantastic? Certainly one of the things that I would love is something that makes Zelda, when it's played on Revolution, do something magical. And I think that any Nintendo fan would love that."

Take from that what you will, but it sure seems like Reggie's hinting at something there.

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=6075

ammy · 02-26-2006, 08:45 PM

fuck you nintendo. i'm not buying the fucking revolution, you idn't put any good shit out on the cube.

Karl Connor · 02-26-2006, 09:20 PM

nintendo has been pulling this shit for a decade now. they really, really need to learn to release their games on time. if the revolution sees such a dearth of titles like the n64 and GC did then they can pretty much call it a day as console developers, unless they have enough funds to bite the bullet again

ammy · 02-26-2006, 09:22 PM

i've been a nintendo girl for like, ever.. but this shit is just not worth it. princess will probably be the last game i buy, since i'm not getting a revolution unless it comes out with a slew of good shit.

i just can't be faithful to someone who lets me down all the time

Karl Connor · 02-26-2006, 09:30 PM

im a nintendo fanatic myself who's pretty fed up with their home consoles

i'm going to take a chance and buy the revolution because it seems to be more of a 'pick-up-and-play' sort of deal, with simple things like tetris, where you can sit down for thirty minutes and have your fix. now that i'm going to school and i have a job i dont have time to play these epics like final fantasy XXXVII or whatever

and i dunno. i have a feeling this system is actually going to be cool and unique and people will buy it, but like i said i'm worried about then repeating past mistakes with this one

Orchestra · 02-26-2006, 09:31 PM

They put the best game ever out on it.
and serveral others that are amazing.
you are wrong.

murgle · 02-26-2006, 09:32 PM

I love Nintendo. I'll be buying a Revolution and Twilight Princess... but I'm not a huge hardcore gamer. Hell, I don't even have a GameCube- so I can't really be let down since I'm so lazy. heh.

murgle · 02-26-2006, 09:33 PM

But I do agree that Nintendo needs to stop delaying shit.

ammy · 02-26-2006, 09:34 PM

please tell me what these games were.

wind waker was alright.
monkeyball was fun...
tony hawk was ok (but isn't console specific)
res evil whichever was good

four games? four? (granted there ARE more) but there aren't enough to warrent hanving bought a whole new console.
....

saferkefka · 02-26-2006, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ammy

please tell me what these games were.

wind waker was alright.
monkeyball was fun...
tony hawk was ok (but isn't console specific)
res evil whichever was good

four games? four? (granted there ARE more) but there aren't enough to warrent hanving bought a whole new console.
....

paper mario?

Karl Connor · 02-26-2006, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orchestra

They put the best game ever out on it.
and serveral others that are amazing.
you are wrong.

gamecube had some of the greatest games ever made, and it got quite a few exclusive third-party titles but overall the system support is just too weak. i mean, other than zelda what do players have to whet their appetites, mario baseball? compare it to the ps2, which is in its twilight years and still has a slew of amazing titles on the way

ammy · 02-26-2006, 09:44 PM

ok, as i continue to think about it, i am coming up with more games (mario sunshine, animal crossing.. etc)..

but when i compare that list and the list of what i still want (princess..)
to the list for ps2 and what i still want, and the damn variety and mnumbers that ps2 has over Nintendo right now.. it's just...
i'm a traitor. bloody traitor. but they forced me into this.

Spumpkins88 · 02-26-2006, 09:45 PM

What about animal crossing? that game was great. theres tons of great games for gamecube. theres just not a lot of popular shoot em up games.

FearFactory · 02-26-2006, 09:47 PM

who cares? they ruined the zelda franchise with that paper zelda game on gamecube.

ammy · 02-26-2006, 09:47 PM

uhh.. brad?

FearFactory · 02-26-2006, 09:48 PM

that's what I call that travesty of a game. it sucks. so does nintendo.

ammy · 02-26-2006, 09:49 PM

do you mean mario?

FearFactory · 02-26-2006, 10:02 PM

no, I'm talking about that piece of shit zelda game that was cell-shaded. this is a zelda thread, isn't it?

ammy · 02-26-2006, 10:03 PM

wind waker..

FearFactory · 02-26-2006, 10:06 PM

it should be titled "The Legend of How to Fuck Up the Zelda Franchise By Turning It Into a Stupid Little Kid's Game: Wind Wanker"

murgle · 02-26-2006, 10:12 PM

I never played WindWaker

PkPhuoko · 02-26-2006, 10:14 PM

windwaker was pretty neat once you got into it

Karl Connor · 02-26-2006, 10:27 PM

the zelda franchise was never considered a dark mature franchise anyhow. check out the nes and super nes ones ... they all have cartoony character design

and the wind waker was truely an amazing game. its one of the only few games i'm satisfied with the hours of my life i wasted on it

Zerospaced · 02-26-2006, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PkPhuoko

windwaker was pretty neat once you got into it

I think WindWaker is in my top 3 for Zelda games....

1. Ocarina of Time
2. Link to the Past
3. Wind Waker

The game cube is great, they've released a lot of great games for it

Metroid Prime, Starfox Adventures (was hella fun), Resident Evil 4, Animal Crossing, Eternal Darkness, Super Smash Bros Melee.... but yeah I'm a die hard nintendo fan, have been for 20 years, however I do own more games for the PS2 than the Cube

Ugly · 02-27-2006, 03:22 AM

if anyone here is hankering for some puzzle / action stuff in lieu of Zelda's delay, I highly, HIGHLY recomend that you go out and pick up any of the "Prince of Perisa" games. Its like 3 games full of castle levels. Kind of. So very awesome, and worthy of tiding you over. (and, if you're not hardcore about it, they take a lonnggg time to go through ... Warrior Within being the hardest)

FearFactory · 02-27-2006, 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Randall Sandell

the zelda franchise was never considered a dark mature franchise anyhow. check out the nes and super nes ones ... they all have cartoony character design

and the wind waker was truely an amazing game. its one of the only few games i'm satisfied with the hours of my life i wasted on it

no, but I was willing to forgive it back then. now I demand a more realistic Legend of Zelda game like I and so many others were teased with.

AndySlash · 02-27-2006, 11:38 AM

Animal Crossing, bitches.

killer_tomato · 02-27-2006, 11:44 AM

wind waker was ok but double dash was great

BeautifulLoser · 02-27-2006, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ammy

fuck you nintendo. i'm not buying the fucking revolution, you idn't put any good shit out on the cube.

My feelings exactly.

Esty · 02-27-2006, 12:01 PM

I'll wait until E3 before deciding what to do with the next systems, but if delaying Zelda makes it better, then delay it. Wind Waker was awesome, but it could have used less sailing and 2-3 more dungeons instead.

02-26-2006, 08:42 PM	#1
Ugly Immortal Location: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed Posts: 21,272	Zelda: Twilight Princess delayed. Again. Dunno if y'all missed this, but its going from April 06 to fall 06. Well, that's about a solid year past its original date. I hope this just wasn't so Nintendo would have a Q4 release and something to show off at E-3. Though they seem to be hinting at an added Revoultion capability as well. Hmph. During an interview with veteran game journalist Geoff Keighley on the most recent episode of Spike TV's new "Game Head" video game program, Nintendo of America's Executive Vice President of Marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, let slip some rather unfortunate news concerning their upcoming flagship title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. You already know what I'm about to say, so I'll just go ahead with it: Twilight Princess has been delayed again, this time to fall of 2006. Fils-Aime was apparently very candid about this fact as well, not offering any apologies or reasons as to why Nintendo keeps delaying what is arguably the number one most anticipated game of the year for many gamers. Fils-Aime also addressed some of the rumors concerning Twilight Princess that have been running rampant lately, such as Nintendo holding the game back on purpose to launch it on the Revolution instead. "It's coming out in the fall, it's coming out on GameCube," said Fils-Aime. "There's been a lot of speculation. People have been saying that we're holding it back or that it's gonna be launched just on Revolution. Tell your people 'Not true,' it's gonna be out on GameCube, it's gonna be out in the fall." Keighley also took this opportunity to address another rumor going around, asking Fils-Aime about whether or not Twilight Princess would have Revolution-only special features (such as a special control scheme) available only to those who played the game on Nintendo's upcoming console. Fils-Aime, of course, played coy. "It's a great idea," he said. "You should talk to Shigeru Miyamoto about it. But right now the focus is on GameCube." Is Reggie telling the truth, or does he know something he's not telling us about? Who can say - but all that really matters is that none of us are going to find out until sometime this Fall now. Let's hope the game doesn't suffer any more delays... Update - It's worth adding that Reggie made some intriguing comments regarding Twilight Princess and the Revolution controller in the latest EGM: "The trick will be what makes it special on Revolution, and to the extent that we could create something like that, boy, wouldn't that be fantastic? Certainly one of the things that I would love is something that makes Zelda, when it's played on Revolution, do something magical. And I think that any Nintendo fan would love that." Take from that what you will, but it sure seems like Reggie's hinting at something there. http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=6075

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02-26-2006, 08:45 PM	#2
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	fuck you nintendo. i'm not buying the fucking revolution, you idn't put any good shit out on the cube.

02-26-2006, 09:20 PM	#3
Karl Connor ADMlNISTRATOR Posts: 18,978	nintendo has been pulling this shit for a decade now. they really, really need to learn to release their games on time. if the revolution sees such a dearth of titles like the n64 and GC did then they can pretty much call it a day as console developers, unless they have enough funds to bite the bullet again

02-26-2006, 09:22 PM	#4
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	i've been a nintendo girl for like, ever.. but this shit is just not worth it. princess will probably be the last game i buy, since i'm not getting a revolution unless it comes out with a slew of good shit. i just can't be faithful to someone who lets me down all the time

02-26-2006, 09:30 PM	#5
Karl Connor ADMlNISTRATOR Posts: 18,978	im a nintendo fanatic myself who's pretty fed up with their home consoles i'm going to take a chance and buy the revolution because it seems to be more of a 'pick-up-and-play' sort of deal, with simple things like tetris, where you can sit down for thirty minutes and have your fix. now that i'm going to school and i have a job i dont have time to play these epics like final fantasy XXXVII or whatever and i dunno. i have a feeling this system is actually going to be cool and unique and people will buy it, but like i said i'm worried about then repeating past mistakes with this one

02-26-2006, 09:31 PM	#6
Orchestra Minion of Satan Posts: 7,765	They put the best game ever out on it. and serveral others that are amazing. you are wrong.

02-26-2006, 09:32 PM	#7
murgle Shaz doesn't fuck around. Location: dallas Posts: 9,263	I love Nintendo. I'll be buying a Revolution and Twilight Princess... but I'm not a huge hardcore gamer. Hell, I don't even have a GameCube- so I can't really be let down since I'm so lazy. heh.

02-26-2006, 09:33 PM	#8
murgle Shaz doesn't fuck around. Location: dallas Posts: 9,263	But I do agree that Nintendo needs to stop delaying shit.

02-26-2006, 09:34 PM	#9
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	please tell me what these games were. wind waker was alright. monkeyball was fun... tony hawk was ok (but isn't console specific) res evil whichever was good four games? four? (granted there ARE more) but there aren't enough to warrent hanving bought a whole new console. ....

02-26-2006, 09:44 PM	#12
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	ok, as i continue to think about it, i am coming up with more games (mario sunshine, animal crossing.. etc).. but when i compare that list and the list of what i still want (princess..) to the list for ps2 and what i still want, and the damn variety and mnumbers that ps2 has over Nintendo right now.. it's just... i'm a traitor. bloody traitor. but they forced me into this.

02-26-2006, 09:45 PM	#13
Spumpkins88 Amish Rake Fighter Posts: 1	What about animal crossing? that game was great. theres tons of great games for gamecube. theres just not a lot of popular shoot em up games.

02-26-2006, 09:47 PM	#14
FearFactory Socialphobic Location: the stars Posts: 10,502	who cares? they ruined the zelda franchise with that paper zelda game on gamecube.

02-26-2006, 09:48 PM	#16
FearFactory Socialphobic Location: the stars Posts: 10,502	that's what I call that travesty of a game. it sucks. so does nintendo.

02-26-2006, 09:49 PM	#17
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	do you mean mario?

02-26-2006, 10:02 PM	#18
FearFactory Socialphobic Location: the stars Posts: 10,502	no, I'm talking about that piece of shit zelda game that was cell-shaded. this is a zelda thread, isn't it?

02-26-2006, 10:03 PM	#19
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	wind waker..

02-26-2006, 10:06 PM	#20
FearFactory Socialphobic Location: the stars Posts: 10,502	it should be titled "The Legend of How to Fuck Up the Zelda Franchise By Turning It Into a Stupid Little Kid's Game: Wind Wanker"

02-26-2006, 10:12 PM	#21
murgle Shaz doesn't fuck around. Location: dallas Posts: 9,263	I never played WindWaker

02-26-2006, 10:14 PM	#22
PkPhuoko Minion of Satan Posts: 6,303	windwaker was pretty neat once you got into it

02-26-2006, 10:27 PM	#23
Karl Connor ADMlNISTRATOR Posts: 18,978	the zelda franchise was never considered a dark mature franchise anyhow. check out the nes and super nes ones ... they all have cartoony character design and the wind waker was truely an amazing game. its one of the only few games i'm satisfied with the hours of my life i wasted on it

02-27-2006, 03:22 AM	#25
Ugly Immortal Location: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed Posts: 21,272	if anyone here is hankering for some puzzle / action stuff in lieu of Zelda's delay, I highly, HIGHLY recomend that you go out and pick up any of the "Prince of Perisa" games. Its like 3 games full of castle levels. Kind of. So very awesome, and worthy of tiding you over. (and, if you're not hardcore about it, they take a lonnggg time to go through ... Warrior Within being the hardest)

02-27-2006, 11:38 AM	#27
AndySlash Posts: 19,599	Animal Crossing, bitches.

02-27-2006, 11:44 AM	#28
killer_tomato Apocalyptic Poster Location: london Posts: 4,951	wind waker was ok but double dash was great

02-27-2006, 12:01 PM	#30
Esty Netphorian of the Decade Location: Waiting in line for his geranium kiss Posts: 15,301	I'll wait until E3 before deciding what to do with the next systems, but if delaying Zelda makes it better, then delay it. Wind Waker was awesome, but it could have used less sailing and 2-3 more dungeons instead.