While disappointing, this news doesn't affect me personally that much. I own a Wii U, PS4, PS3, Vita, and 3DS. Between all those platforms, I have plenty of games to keep me entertained.
For Nintendo's sake, I hope they have some pretty compelling software lined-up to fill the gap. Zelda is a tentpole franchise for Nintendo, and I don't care what else is lined up for this year, the delay makes a crater-sized hole in their release schedule on a system that already has a relatively low count of games being released throughout the year.
I can't imagine this Zelda game being moved-out to an NX launch title. I can't think of a single Nintendo console that didn't have its own Zelda game. [size=78%]I'm curious to see what they do, if anything. Do they finally announce a price cut this year to try and entice buyers this fall? I assume we'll see some surprise announcements for the fall release as well.[/size]
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[/size]I don't necessarily see Zelda as a "system seller" in this case. Most Nintendo Devotees I assume already bought it, the mass appeal games (Mario, Smash Bros, Mariokart) have released. Anyone who doesn't see a good stable of Nintendo games worthy of buying the Wii U at this point either doesn't like most Nintendo Franchises or probably has more an issue with the console itself/3rd party support issues than the Nintendo games themselves.[size=78%]