Experimental42 said:
Because it's turning a profit and if you release a new console too early the spectre of the PS5 is going to kill it just like the PS2's existance killed the Dreamcast's sales? If they announce a new console, the Wii U profits die and sales drop, and then the new console's early release is marred by the announcement of Sony's PS5 complete with bullshots of live-action actors pretending to be what the console is capable of doing. If the next Nintendo console launches before next gen, it'll compete against the large install base of the PS4 and the announcement of the technically superior PS5. Do you people really think Sony and MS would sit there while Nintendo releases a new console butter than PS4? They'd organize a new show to announce the PS5, with specs higher than the new Nintendo console, minutes after the Nintendo launch. The next Nintendo console would be dead on arrival for an easily preventable reason. |
The only thing you're talking about is higher specs, which to me sounds like you expect Nintendo to do a WiiU2, which obviously would be a bad decision and hardly Nintendo's strength.
WiiU profits only fall when Nintendo is abandoning the console, which they usually do quickly. If they learned something from the transition from last to this gen, they would develop cross gen games (pretty much like they already did with Twilight Princess).
Also why would MS and Sony already show new hardware, when their own barely launched. Just to piss off Nintendo? They would harm only their own console sales with that.
Trying to create a second Wii-like success should be their priority and not giving a console life support that will probably never turn profitable at all.
A lot seem to forget that the thing needed R&D to even exist, which was only possible due to the huge profits they got from Wii and DS sales.
