Nintendo Confirms New Console, Evidently Powered by AMD

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mZuzek said:

zumnupy10 said:

A new system from Nintendo in late 2016 would actually make sense.

It wouldn't be the first time one of the 3 giants released a new console before the old one turned 5 years old. MS didn't wait this time to put the X360 in the market, they knew it was their chance to beat Sony and they did it.

Nintendo can't afford to waste more time.

And even then they still failed to beat Sony.

Nintendo can afford to waste more time. They don't care about the competition, their goal is not to "defeat Sony" like Microsoft's is. They'll be doing their own thing and trying to sell as much as they can by themselves, regardless of what the other ones might be doing.

MS may not have beaten Sony in the end. But they went from a 25m console to a  80m+ one.   The strategy worked well really.

Nintendo always does "their thing".   Sometimes it works for them like the Wii/DS and to a lesser extent the 3DS.    Other times like the N64,GC and WiiU it doesn't.  For some reason this strategy seems to work much better on the handheld space than in the home console market.

In the end I believe, the decision of launching new hardware before 2017 will depend on how profitable the WiiU is by late 2015.   If profits are too small or inexistant, Nintendo might consider a new console in 2016, investors will want that.