Zelda Breath Of The Wild Delays Finally Explained The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild

This past April, Nintendo announced that the new Zelda game had been pushed back until 2017 and would be releasing on the Wii U and the Nintendo NX. At the Nintendo Treehouse E3 event, a year after the new Zelda game was supposed to be released, we finally got our first look at Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

We were never given much information as to why this new entry in the Zelda franchise was delayed so many times, until now. Zelda’s series producer Eiji Aonuma, when asked about the delays, said this:

But Aonuma followed this up by saying:

Nintendo chief game designer Shigeru Miyamoto elaborated on Aonuma’s words, saying that there are different types of delays.

Nintendo has yet to announce the day that Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be released. We do know that it will be available in 2017 for the Wii U and the upcoming Nintendo NX.