Tears of the Kingdom received a year long delay just to focus on polish

It seems that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been performed for a couple of yr, with the remainder of that point being spent on simply polish alone.

Again in March of 2022, Nintendo made the choice to delay Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom out of its 2022 launch window into spring 2023, the place it is clearly now out within the wild (pun not supposed). It had at all times been made clear that 2022 was the goal launch yr for the sport, however wasn’t a assure, so the delay wasn’t stunning. Now, in accordance with The Washington Put up’s Gene Park, the explanation for that delay wasn’t as a result of the sport wasn’t technically prepared; it was to shine it up.

Park lately spoke with Zelda sequence producer Eiji Aonuma as a part of an interview with The Washington Put up, however shared an anecdote that did not make it into the ultimate piece. “Eiji Aonuma mentioned when he introduced in March 2022 a delay for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, the sport was just about full,” Park shared in a tweet. “The final yr was spent on polish, ensuring the wild physics of the sport simply work.”

Fairly often sport delays happen just because they only aren’t able to exit, with launch dates extra being set to please executives than anybody else. They’re additionally changing into increasingly widespread as video games get larger and greater, however clearly it was price it for Nintendo to delay the sport by such an extended time frame; it’s the highest rated sport of all time on OpenCritic in any case.

Tears of the Kingdom has additionally offered extremely effectively, amassing greater than 10 million copies in simply three days, beating out final yr’s large hit Elden Ring, and placing it on par with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, a sequence which at all times sells exceptionally effectively.