Nintendo Q4 Investor's Meeting - Live

[Mr Khan]

Rafux said:

trestres said:

Mr Khan said:

Rafux said:
I said some time ago new console in 2015 and people called me crazy

Still crazy. What could they possibly prepare that quickly?

Nothing really. Wii U might be their last home console, so there will be no replacement, they will simply discontinue the console and that's it.

Virtual reality crap, hybrid something console, some casual familiy friendly console with a pick and play controller (my biggest best since it worked before). They'll conjure something up.

Point is you can't just throw something together and put it on the market. That's the kind of crap that led to the Virtual Boy and the Sega Saturn. Let's say it sets in at Nintendo around the end of 2013 that they won't be able to hold onto Wii U for 5 years. Even an accelerated R&D cycle is going to take 2.5 years from that point to put something workable on the market.

Though, yes, there is the counterexample of the DS coming 3 years after the GBA, but that half proves the point. DS's anemic first year showed that it was about a year too soon to market.