Can NX honestly release next year with only 4 years of Wii U?

[potato_hamster]

Soundwave said:

4 years is actually quite a long time.

People who are going to scream "Sega" are wrong, the 32X was supported for like 8 months (lol) and the Saturn in the US for maybe 2 1/2 years, so it's not equivalent at all.

The first XBox had 4 years of support and the GBA had 3 1/2 years, so that's really no the issue.

The issue really is what will be so great about the NX that will change anything in this equation for Nintendo? That's the bigger question. Is it another gimmick based platform (some of the Iwata comments seem to hint at that direction)? 

Aside from the Virtual Boy, Nintendo has never released a new home console within 5 years of the release of its predecessor.