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Nintendo’s upcoming The Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U will no longer have a 2015 release, Eiji Anouma announced today in a video message; nor will the game be showing at E3, according to Nintendo America.

You can watch Eiji Anouma’s speech above, or read our transcription below.

Hello, Zelda fans! I am Eiji Anouma, producer of The Legend of Zelda. I’d like to share with you an update on our development progress on The Legend of Zelda for Wii U.

Since I declared at The Game Awards in December that the game would launch in 2015, the directors and many members of the development team have been working hard developing the game to make it the best it can be.

In these last three months, as the team has experienced first-hand the freedom of exploration that hasn’t existed in any Zelda game to date, we have discovered several new possibilities for this game.

As we have worked to turn these possibilities into reality, new ideas have continued to spring forth, and it now feels like we have the potential to create something that exceeds my own expectations. As I have watched our development progress, I have come to think that rather than work with meeting a specific schedule as our main objective, and releasing a game that reflects only what we can create within that scheduled time, I feel strongly that our focus should be to bring all these ideas to life in a way that will make The Legend of Zelda on Wii U the best game it can possibly be.

So, I must apologize to all of you who were expecting the game by year’s end, but we are no longer making a 2015 release our number one priority.

Instead, our priority is to make it the most complete and ultimate Zelda game. I hope to use the added time to make The Legend of Zelda for Wii U a game that will reward you for your patience, so thank you for your continued support.

This open-world action-adventure game was first announced in a Nintendo Direct stream in January of 2013. We’ve only gotten glimpses at it since. You can go to our archives (linked below) to catch up on past Wii U Legend of Zelda news.

We’ll keep you updated.