Are you guys even excited for this game? Thoughts on what to expect?

Nah, but I think that being forced to milk the same franchises for decades has finally started to take its toll. The team can't do any better because they can only remake OoT so many fucking times before they hit a brick wall.

That's pretty much my point, nigger. If the Wii U had the best games then people would overlook the retardation of its specs and tablet controller, but the quality isn't there anymore so all people see is the retardation.

If you look back at it Nintendo made some incredibly fucking stupid decisions in its heyday, like the North American NES redesign or the hideous original Gameboy screen. But nobody cared because Nintendo systems had the top-tier games. Imagine how well that shit would've gone over if the games were mediocre.

They were always stupid but now they don't have the quality to cover their asses.

I will never be "excited" for a Zelda game. There's no telling what you're getting when you buy it. I'm definitely *interested,* but in the long run I couldn't care much less if it blows or not.

It's almost like Iwata was the only thing holding them to any kind of standard. He got sick and they made Amiibo when he wasn't looking. As soon as he died everything just collapsed into pure shit.

Someone doesn't understand marketing or advertising or even logical fallacies.

They had the biggest marketing budget actually. and the best marketing team. Marketing the NES as a toy to toy dealers was genius that revived the entire industry.

What killed the N64 was losing everything they could market, what killed the GC was their inability to market it after fucking everyone over, what revived them with the Wii was their fckhuge marketing campaign, and what killed the WiiU is their retarded conflicting marketing scheme where NoJ tries to make it more of an all ages console while NoA fucks everyone and tries to make it a Wii 2.0, severely fucking it's sales in america because they're retarded.

It's not really a meme.

Koizumi didn't "just make the story for Ocarina and Majora." He designed the Z targeting system. And set up the three day cycle from an other project he was doing in Majora's Mask, and the mask transformations.
The guy also understands the importance of plot without letting it overshadow the game itself. Link's Awakening had very simple plot, yet is way more memorable than Skyward Sword. He's also handled the Mario games he's worked on very well. Compare that to Aonuma's shaky record.

People want him on Zelda because on paper, he seems like a perfect fit. Again, I don't have anything against Aonuma, I think he's perfectly capable of making a great Zelda. (Making A Link Between Worlds not suck is a miracle in itself.) I just feel the series needs some fresh air again. And so do a lot of other people.