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It's not that Nintendo consoles have launched late, it's that others have launched early to try to get an edge starting with Genesis when Sega realised that Master System was a flop. In order for Nintendo to launch first it would have had to cut the life of a system short, as MS did with XBox 1. This finally changed when MS and Sony decided to stretch out the costly PS360.