Zelda Wii U was conspicuously absent from Nintendo's E3 2015 presentation, and the gaming giant has shed light on why that was.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told IGN that he believes that showing off footage from a 2016 game would only have "frustrated" fans.
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"We just fundamentally don't believe in showing content at E3 that is going to be a long term proposition," he explained.
"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.
"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 titbit of Zelda Wii U, but in our collective opinion the belief was, in the end, that would cause more frustration than benefit."
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