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

[Soundwave]

potato_hamster said:

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.

Unless you were like one of 5% of people in North America and Europe who bought an NES in 1986, Nintendo did replace the NES with the SNES in under 5 years for most people in the West.

Most people got their NES in 87 or 88, so Nintendo releasing the Super NES in 1991 was a very quick turn around. 

Also the N64 was originally announced and supposed to come out in 1995, it was just because of delays that it didn't. 

So really even that isn't some sacred cow that can't be slaughtered. 

Lets be honest too, the last year of "GameCube support" was a total and complete joke. They stopped supporting the GameCube in any serious way after 2004 and bailed on Twilight Princess releasing that on Wii first and then just giving the GameCube a late, limited release.