Captain Obvious: NX Will Launch in 2016 With Zelda

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Gammalad said:

When it comes to releasing new consoles when your old one isn't doing too well SEGA isn't the shining example of that.
Nintendo is known for supporting their home consoles for at least 5 years. Nintendo is not in a position to hurt consumer trust. As a Wii U owner I would not buy the NX if it dropped next year at all. Because how do I know Nintendo isn't going to abandon ship on that one if things start going south? Not many people would be too keen that after buying a PS4 or XBO that they would have to run out and buy the PS5 and the XB2(?) 3-4 years later. And like I have said many times if anything the NX is more than likely Nintendo's next handheld system and not home console as it fits more of the criteria for handhelds than it does for the home console. Also for the fact we won't be seeing it till mid next year also tells me we won't see a solid release for it till the following year.

You may think that, but nothing on the examples he mentioned corroborates to think that what you say goes on the mind of the average consumer. Sega consoles didn't sell because they sucked. Plain and simple. The NX will sell if it's good, and it won't, if it sucks, the same way it happened with pratically all platforms in the past. There is little to do with the year they are released. The launch of a new product seems detrimental only to the old hardware, not the new.

 

Besides, I think this is right specially because a lot of Nintendo fans are against the idea, and a lot of those Nintendo fans are almost always wrong about their favorite company and the console market these days. Just a few of their consensus predictions below:

- PS4/XBO will run on relatively weaker hardware.

- Wii-U will sell a lot.

- There will be no 2DS.

- There will be no Nintendo games on smartphones.

- Nintendo won't announce a new product soon.

And the list goes on...