With little information to go on, the NWR staff decided to guess when they think the next Zelda game is coming out.
We’ve been waiting more than three years since The Legend of Zelda on Wii U was first mentioned. It has been almost two years since the first footage, and we’ve already seen one huge delay. Overall, we have seen very little of the next mainline Zelda game, especially considering it’s set to release in 2016.
So as we wait for more information and an eventual release date, our staff entered a light-hearted, good-natured Zelda Release Date Pool. Everyone sent in their pick for the release date, as well as some tiebreaker questions. Whoever gets the closest to the date will win a copy of the game. Any further tiebreakers will be settled in Smash.
- Andrew Brown - June 30, 2016
- Jonathan Metts - October 23, 2016
- Neal Ronaghan* - November 11, 2016
- Matt West* - November 11, 2016
- Donald Theriault* - November 11, 2016
- James Jones - November 14, 2016
- Adam Abou-Nasr** - November 18, 2016
- John Rairdin** - November 18, 2016
- JP Corbran** - November 18, 2016
- Becky Hollada** - November 18, 2016
- James Charlton** - November 18, 2016
- Kim Keller** - November 18, 2016
- Justin Berube** - November 18, 2016
- Nicholas Bray - December 1, 2016
- Addison Webb - December 2, 2016
- Bryan Rose - January 27, 2017
- Zach Miller - February 19, 2017
- Michael “TYP” Cole - March 10, 2017
All of these picks are locked in. Now we wait for June to roll around so Andrew can be proven wrong and then we can see who will be right. What do you think Zelda's release date will be?
*Tiebreaker for November 11 - Neal says 3 words in the title other than “The Legend of Zelda”; Matt says 2 words; Donald says 5
**Tiebreaker #1 for November 18 - Adam and Justin say 2 words in the title other than “The Legend of Zelda”; John, JP, Becky, James, and Kim say 3 words
Tiebreaker #2 for November 18 - Adam says it will be after Link’s Awakening on the timeline; Justin says after Skyward Sword; John says after Phantom Hourglass; JP says prequel to The Legend of Zelda; Becky and Kim say after Skyward Sword; James says “LOL”