"Legend of Zelda" fans have a lot of reasons to be sad this week. Not only did Nintendo's CEO deny rumors about a possible live-action series based on the adventure-fantasy series on Netflix, but now the next entry of the game has been delayed.
Eiji Aonuma, the producer of the popular franchise, posted a message on Facebook announcing that the next entry in the series would not be ready until some time after 2015. The announcement follows three months after Aonuma said during his appearance at the Game Awards that the next "Legend of Zelda" game would be available by 2015.
Despite the move, the team has discovered some new ideas.
"In these last three months, as the team has experienced firsthand the freedom of exploration that hasn't existed in any Zelda game to date, we have discovered several new possibilities for this game," Aonuma said.
"As we have worked to turn these possibilities into reality, new ideas have continued to spring forth, and it now feels like we have the potential to create something that exceeds even my own expectations. As I have watched our development progress, I have come to think that rather than work with meeting a specific schedule as our main objective, and releasing a game that reflects only what we can create within that scheduled time, I feel strongly that our focus should be to bring all these ideas to life in a way that will make The Legend of Zelda on Wii U the best game it can possibly be."
This desire to create a new game led Aonuma to postpone the project until 2016 or possibly later. But in postponing the project's release date, Aonuma said he "hope(s) to use the added time to make The Legend of Zelda for Wii U into a game that will reward you for your patience, so thank you for your continued support."
The currently unnamed "Legend of Zelda" entry will be released for the Wii U. It was originally announced at E3 2014 and was featured at the 2014 Game Awards, where gamers got to see actual gameplay.
