Prediction: Nintendo launching its next home console in end of 2016

[gigantor21]

supernihilist said:

gigantor21 said:
The end of 2016 is the absolute soonest I'd expect a new Nintendo console. Anything sooner would piss off existing WiiU owners and would've give them enough time to get ready.

I'm expecting 2017 myself, though. Has Nintendo ever put out a console less than 5 years after the last one?

they showed Wii only 4 years after GC launched Showing new HW at e3 2016 is not out of sight at all

I'm talking more in terms of actual release dates.

Only the DS and GBA comes to mind; those were released 4 years apart. As far as home consoles, 5 years has been the soonest for each one I think.