Nintendo explains why it didn’t show off the new Zelda game at E3

Nintendo’s E3 press conference this year was definitely not one of the company’s best, and the lack of information on its new Zelda game definitely didn’t help. According to Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime, the reason the company decided not to show any information on the new Zelda game for the Wii U was that Nintendo didn’t want to raise people’s hopes that the game would be released earlier than expected. 

Nintendo decided not to show Zelda at E3 this week as they wanted to avoid raising hopes that it might be released earlier then they plan. The Japanese games publisher has had to go on record in the past and say that title is stilll in the works and hasn’t been pinched for their next console, the NX project. There was plenty of Zelda-linked news during Nintendo’s digital event, with the announcement that The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes and Hyrule Warriors Legends were heading for 3DS. “We just fundamentally don’t believe in showing content at E3 that is going to be a long term proposition,” Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime explained to IGN. “Our mentality is more near-term when we think about E3. And, yes, we take it on a case-by-case basis. “There’s also a recognition that we didn’t want to frustrate the consumer. “We could have scored a lot of points and showed some little tidbit of Zelda Wii U, but in our collective opinion the belief was, in the end, that would cause more frustration than benefit. “We like to show content that typically will launch in the upcoming holiday and maybe extending into the first half of the following year. And at this point, the new Zelda for Wii U is not a 2015 project.”