New Nintendo Platform Teased at Conference, "NX"

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I think Nintendo will be very, very successful in mobile just because a lot of that fanbase is going to snap up Nintendo IP at $1/F2P.

Still with regards to NX ... I'm not expecting something mind blowing. There's still nothing that suggests to me that Iwata and company really know what they're doing as it relates to consles, they haven't managed their console division well for about 7 years now. The second half of the Wii cycle and the Wii U have been bumbled by their management, the only reason it's been decent is because of the brilliance of Nintendo's software teams, but that's a constant. Remove Mario Galaxy 2 from the back half of the Wii life cycle and the system becomes a very depressing trudge after 2008. 

I do suspect the NX will be a fusion platform with the home version having some extra controller gimmicks like the 3D head tracking glasses/visor they patented last year ... but it's probably not anything super compelling. And I think they know it too.  

If they had something waiting in the wings that they were reasonably sure would be a big hit or had true break out potential like the Wiimote was, they wouldn't have made the call to go mobile and invest almost $200 million in DeNA. But they don't internally feel confident they have anything like that, so they had to cave and give in to mobile because they can't have another generation like the last one (perhaps even worse).