HappySqurriel on 10 July 2010
How could Nintendo have released information too early?
Videogame consoles and handhelds take years to develop, and developers need to know what hardware you’re releasing a year or more before a system launches in order to have games available for launch. Outside of very minor changes, you can’t really make a change to the core-hardware of a gaming system without delaying its release. If Sony produced a system based on Nintendo’s announcements the earliest I could see them releasing this system would be sometime in 2012. A year or two head-start for the 3DS will make a much bigger impact on that generation than an improvement in hardware will
