Don’t forget the third way Nintendo didn’t expect: (3) because Nintendo is notoriously terrible at approximating demand and overly conservative about sales.

I like how you put “shortages” in quotes, like they aren’t real shortages.

Idk, maybe stop being so damn conservative about literally every product they ever produce, creating an environment in which scampers are assured a profit, knowing that Nintendo has not possibly even come close to meeting the initial demand, instead opting to either play catch-up in a year or just ending the supply…

Every scalped item represents demand that was not met.

For a while, I would only really remember the powers while inside shrines. Took my a bit to realize their uses outside.

Idk. I think it’s somewhat in keeping with Skyward Sword’s Lanayru region.

It’s easier to hand-waive in a mythology that has a Goddess of Time and many other time shenanigans that make no sense (why did Twilight Princess Ganondorf suddenly gain the Triforce?).

It’s definitely way far in the future based on the simple statement that Ganon was sealed 10,000 years before and most of the leaps between previous games are a century or two at most.

Why would they make this?

That’s how it goes with literally everything.

By that logic, no company should do anything ever given that:

Source or shut up.

Everything you’ve just written is disconnected and dumb.

I think you’re entirely missing the point:

The primary difference is that no where in this five minute video did they make it clear that this was a whole new console.

Thats why those are poor parallels.

Couldn’t even take a couple seconds to Google, huh?

So missed.

Sounds less like they leaked the event and more like they mined Nintendo’s or a retailer’s website for published but unlinked pages.

Censorship definitely does not only apply the the government.