User blog comment:Bowser & Jr./The Legend of Zelda for Wii U revealed + New E3 Hyrule Warriors trailer/@comment-1518158-20140611020936/@comment-2072003-20140611084122

Pointing this out as well, Miyamoto "teased/joked" that during E3 2009 with Skyward Sword ' s key art revealed, Link would have no sword because the Master Sword was missing in the artwork and look at what happened later. I think this basically goes for this "Link-ish" character as well.