NX launches March 2017 Globally

[Raze]

MikeRox said:

Raze said:

I just came here to say "I told you so!" to all the people that said I had no idea what I was talking about when I said the NX wouldn't come out until 2017. =P 

March does seem like an odd time of year for a launch, though.

It's the end of the financial year. I said March 2017 in the crow thread. It does mean they can offset the hardware manufacturing into the previous year so bigger losses or lower profit in the current year that started on the first of April.

 

I'd count march as 2016 really (at least from a business perspective), as people saying 2017 vs 2016 meant next holidays. So are actually further out. (Never less than a year between unveiling and release was the main argument.) If have been amazed if it was any later than March as everything pointed to this fiscal year.

At bolded part: Yeah, as my birthday is in March and the next one will be the end of my 30s, I insist that March is not part of the prior year ;) I get what you're saying, however. Of course, Nintendo has been the king of delays, so I'd say March is a tentative thought. All the same, it still holds up to that 6-7 year console release cycle.