@catofellow: It did. Famicom and Sega SG-1000 were released at the same date.
And also, NES was released in NA 1985 and Super NES 1991, making it six years (in Japan FC 1983, SFC 1990).
Super NES was released so late because of the success of NES, N64 got delayed because of the hardware development took a little too much time, GC was just released for the sake of releasing. But Wii was intentionally released last to prevent the controller getting copied.
Nintendo doesn't have financial incentive to release Wiis successor early, but if they intend to make something new for the new console, they have an incentive to wait until the competition is out.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
