@XCWarrior Oh, they're going to announce Zelda U alright can't wait for that (they said it themselves, but I don't have the source at the moment).

Well, Mario games are much more distinguishable from one another. People know about Mario Kart, from casuals to hardcore. They know about 3D, as well as 2D Mario and any other games in between, such as the sports and party games and what not. LoZ, on the other hand, is not as popular and mainstream among the whole video gaming world when it comes to recognition.

@rjejr Yeah, but like you mentioned, "anybody who knows what Hyrule is should be smart enough to know that this isn't the next game in the Zelda series".

I expect people unaware of the series (well, to some extent at least) to watch e3 as well. They'd see an elf boy in green and think it's coming from the same game. I dunno, I don't really see this happening tbh, since Nintendo are going to professionally present us their content, but I guess my argument comes from the fact that people got confused about Wii and Wii U so easily. And as for Link's Crossbow Training, it has the word "training" in it, and most of it wasn't even typical LoZ combat that many people know, for it to be mixed with a standard Zelda game, whereas 'Hyrule Warriors' does have you freely controlling a character fighting off monsters and such.

So in the end, we gamers, especially us that play Nintendo games and are familiar with the main franchises, obviously won't have any trouble with things like these, but we need to look at things from a broader perspective and take other kinds of audiences into account. But I'm sure Nintendo will be clear about it all