| teigaga said: For people suggesting that Nintendo won't release a new system in the same year its announced, I really don't think they or sony/ms have a strict policy regarding this. Recent trend definitely favours short announcement/launch turnover which seems to carry more hype then showing off a system 16months in advance with only tech demos at your disposal. |
It mainly comes down to market saturation.
The reason Nintendo released the New 3DS in Japan first wasn't just because of them being cheap and not going for a world wide release (althoug that did play into it) but because the 3DS line was starting to falter sales wise over there with everyone already owning one of the devices and the Wii U being the Wii U that left Nintendo vunerable to losing potential sales.
While it is indeed possible the same may happen in 2016, especially given how "light" the 3DS' schedule is in the second half of the year in terms of potential blockbusters outside of maybe Fire Emblem if, their is a strong possibility that if Nintendo NX is a home console it won't drop until after Nintendo releases its next Zelda. Also if it is a handheld, it won't drop until Nintendo has gotten development kits into the hands of enough developers that are on board with supporting it.
Timelines like that may take more then just a few months especially if Nintendo has learned anything from the failures of its last two hardware launches.
