Zelda director talks about why annualization doesn't work for the series

Though The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD only took about six months to develop, it's easy to forget there was a time when three Zelda games hit home consoles in four years. Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma told Shacknews that the series briefly flirted with annualization, but it doesn't fit with mounting expectations. Aonuma said Shigeru Miyamoto himself proposed that Majora's Mask could be released