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ToxicJosh said:
jigokutamago said:
Looking at recent years

Wii
Reveal: E3 2005
Release: Nov 2006

3DS
Reveal: E3 2010
Release: Feb 2011

Wii U
Reveal: E3 2011
Release: Nov 2012

Has Nintendo ever fully revealed and then released a console in the same year? At least they haven't recently.

Historically this is how they've announced consoles.

But I wonder if a more effective way to release and garner interest may be:

Reveal: Spring 2016 (special direct)

Info Dump: E3 2016

Release: Nov 2016

 

Similar to how the PS4 and Xbox One were announced and released over the course of one year, I think between Wii U being announced and released the length of time was so great that people lost interest (alongside the other issues). If Nintendo bring the 18 month announce-release gap down to 8 or 9 months they can generate greater consumer interest.

that is fine, as long as 3rd party came along and have big AAA titles together with the launch.  if there isn't any 3rd party support at all, same case of the Wii U.  why would Nintendo gamers jump into NX on day 1?

it could really be 2016-2018 date range.  but Nintendo really need something big in order to gain trust of the Nintendo faithful and other gamers who haven't jump into the next gen consoles yet.  if NX is backwards compatible to the Wii U, then all Wii U games are playable but really needs the normal 3rd party games so that ps360 players can have both worlds.