It was a gamecube game that was ported before it came out. so there was a parallel period, but originally it was a gamecube game. If you wanna look stuff up for discussions, look it up better. BTW they even mirrored the entire world for the wii version so link could be right handed btw (like the worldmap is mirrored even), it's pretty neat if you wanna go read about it.

gamecube launch was delayed to help sales of wii version for fairly obvious reasons. you're telling me things i already know and then concluding, based on a quick (and careless) reading of wikipedia, that you know better. your own link even says stuff like motion to swing sword in wii TP is cuz they ran out of buttons.

Your link supports xenophanes' claim, particularly the "Wii transition" section.

I guess you didn't really read it then. The game was originally envisioned for GC but, early on, it was decided that it would be released on both platforms. Plenty of time for development.

Anyway, it doesn't matter; the game was released on both systems almost simultaneously (Wii first). These two facts hardly imply that this was a GC game ported to the Wii. Years of development were spent specifically on the Wii version.

It was a button press for most of the Wii development too, motion control was a last minute addition, as they struggled to convert the controls originally designed for the GameCube, as the game's director explains here::

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/13095