20th February 2006, 10:12 PM
Consider this lazy. For the second idea to be valid, Nintendo would have to consider giving the "first version" of the game maximum time to get as many sales out of us as possible. So, they would NOT have delayed it but rather released the GCN version and then spent this entire time working on the Revolution version. If they spent this whole time adding in Revolution features, well that seems more plausible.
There is the third option you dismissed out of hand for marketting reasons. They really weren't done yet. Consider Zelda 2, delayed for a pretty long period of time itself as I recall, and it really was due to not being "done yet" (though at the time, they claimed "chip shortages"). The next system coming out would put a damper on the game's sales under normal conditions, but as the system is in fact backwards compatible, I really don't see how it would cut into sales of the new Zelda game to release the Revolution. It may be, sadly enough, that a Gamecube game becomes the most bought game for the Revolution.
I was not aware Nintendo stated they were NOT in fact adding Rev controller support to the game. That raises some eyebrows. Now it's "he said she said" except I am willing to give Nintendo a bit more clout.
There is the third option you dismissed out of hand for marketting reasons. They really weren't done yet. Consider Zelda 2, delayed for a pretty long period of time itself as I recall, and it really was due to not being "done yet" (though at the time, they claimed "chip shortages"). The next system coming out would put a damper on the game's sales under normal conditions, but as the system is in fact backwards compatible, I really don't see how it would cut into sales of the new Zelda game to release the Revolution. It may be, sadly enough, that a Gamecube game becomes the most bought game for the Revolution.
I was not aware Nintendo stated they were NOT in fact adding Rev controller support to the game. That raises some eyebrows. Now it's "he said she said" except I am willing to give Nintendo a bit more clout.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)