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It's pretty simple. We're told that Drake is launching sometime between now and early 2023. This year is looking very unlikely due to no announcement/rumblings so we assume it'll be next year. But probably not too early next year or else they'd need to announce it this year.I've lost the thread a little bit.
I don't see any reason for new hardware to have much of a relationship to Zelda re: release date. I know others have felt otherwise - I've seen some folks say that this hardware and Zelda have been linked for a while, but that's been purely in terms of fan speculation, there is no insider indication that they are connected.
Did the release date announcement for Zelda change the calculus for anyone in any way?
They like launching hardware with big games, especially Zelda. If we're still believing it will launch early 2023 then Nintendo would be foolish NOT to launch it with Zelda. Doing so would divide attention between those two events.
Now, I agree there was no reason to think it had to be tied to Zelda, but now that the window for Drake is narrowing it seems exceedingly likely that this window will overlap with Zelda's, and at that point it's obvious they'd launch together.