Could we possibly see Nintendo incorporate more frequent hardware refreshes with NX?

[zorg1000]

Nuvendil said:

zorg1000 said:

People don't freak out and think games/apps are going to stop coming to iPhone 5, iPad Air, iPad Mini 2 now that iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3 are out, so ur just making up an excuse.

Not a single person in the world gave a fuck that Wii was ever so slightly more powerful than Xbox, they bought it because of its games/features not because it was 10% more powerful than a 5 year old console.

Again, I'm not proposing that such a device is going to sell Wii numbers but something like this could be attainable.

Console, 3-5 million/year

Portable, 5-7 million/year

Tablet, 7-8 million/year

Total, 15-20 million/year

Which is similar to 3DS+Wii U annual sales

The two markets are different for goodness sake how can you not see that?  Of course no one gives a **** about game support on their phone or tablet, those are not dedicated gaming devices.  They're phones and tablets.  The games are a fringe benefit.  When someone spends over $200 on a dedicated gaming device, their expectations are different.  Games are THEcore function, without them the device is useless.  They aren't a fringe benefit, they're everything.  So the constant implication that your device may at any moment lose support erodes confidence.  The markets are different.  Consumer expectations are different.  Also, you are presuming that all the factors I listed did nothing to help the Wii;  that is an extremely bold assumption.

I understand that they are different markets, the point still stands that people are for the most part smart enough to realize that these types of upgrades, the older models don't lose support as soon as a new model releases. Maybe this example is better, did people freak out about 3DS losing support now that New 3DS is available?

I didn't mention ur factors because they are irrelevant to the discussion, the fact is that nobody bought Wii due to it being more powerful than Xbox, that was a complete non-factor in Wii's success. If Wii was slightly weaker than Xbox, it would have been just as popular.