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In an interview with IGN, we asked Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime about the company's decision to not show Zelda

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We first learned about new footage of The Legend of Zelda from famed Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and that Nintendo chose not to show the game this year. He told IGN that Zelda is still coming Wii U . Of course, Nintendo made it clear that it wouldn't show Zelda at E3 when the game was delayed back in April Below is our Q&A exchange with Fils-Aime on the matter.“It goes back to the statement i made earlier about how we view E3. We just fundamentally don’t believe in showing content at E3 that is going to be a long term proposition. We like to show content that typically will launch in the upcoming Holiday and maybe extending into the first half of the following year. And at this point, the new Zelda for Wii U is not a 2015 project."“No, but when we showed it last year, we believed it was a 2015 game."“No. I don't believe that it sends that messages. In fact, in separate interviews [Shigeru] Miyamoto has reinforced that it’s a 2016 game, and I also believe he’s reinforced that it’s a Wii U game because I know that there is that thinking floating around."“Our mentality is more near-term when we think about E3. And, yes, we take it on a case-by-case basis. There’s also a recognition that we didn't want to frustrate the consumer. We could have scored a lot of points and showed some little tidbit of Zelda Wii U, but in our collective opinion the belief was, in the end, that would cause more frustration than benefit."“It’s based on a collective belief -- and when I talk collective, I’m talking about [Satoru] Iwata, Mr. Miyamoto, myself, Tatsuya Eguchi, [Shinya] Takahashi. The collective braintrust within Nintendo. It was our collective belief that it would have a negative effect of showing a game that we knew wasn’t going to be a next-six-to-eight-month-type of game." but it announced several games at it's E3 2015 Digital Event . We also learned that Nintendo is considering several modes and controllers for Star Fox Zero

Jose Otero is an Editor at IGN and host of Nintendo Voice Chat . You can follow him on Twitter