What benefits does Nintendo gets releasing the NX a year and a half after announcement?

[Darwinianevolution]

superchunk said:

Darwinianevolution said:
Nintendo should take its time on the developement of the NX. Have a lot of games and release them regularly to avoid droughts. They shouldn't rush things.

Also, I'm sure Nintendo knows that, once the NX is announced and showed to the world, the WiiU sales are going to plummet like a rock. During that period of time they are barely going to sell a console, and that is going to hurt Nintendo finantially. So once announced, the system has to come out as quickly as possible, or making a WiiU pricecut so radical Nintendo gets ridd of all its stock. Announcing the system on E3 and releasing it during holydays is the least harmful way to do it.

Who's rushing? 

NX has been in development for awhile. Couple years ago they switched all internal development to NX games and put their other games out for 2nd / 3rd parties to work/complete.

I know. But their system has to be relevant for over five or six years, and it will have to compete with the PS4 and the PS5. Nintendo needs to sell around minimum 60-70m hardware units between handheld and home console if they want to be comfortably profitable. If they are going to go with the Fusion project, they'll need to do a ton of things to avoid failing spectacularly:

-Have their games work well on both HH and HC.

-Get powerful specs that can compete in price with PS4 and XBone, and at the sae time don't alienate 3rd parties. Specially careful with the handheld, because they should be able to play home consoles titles well enough to be worth get both hardwares.

-Convince people this idea won't hurt gameplay.

-Convince 3rdparties that the NX will sell well and their games could sell well.

-Convince the customers that the NX will have enough 3rd party support, or at leas, the ones that could matter to the Nintendo audience.

-Convince people outside of their userbase to give the system a go.

-Avoid droughts by developing enough games and releasing them in an intelligent way.

-Avoid another "WiiU is a peripheral".

-Combinate well enough their new areas with the NX (the mobile games and the QoL), but not alienating the hardcore userbase. Maybe Nintendo could give their mobile games for free on their systems, and having to buy them on mobiles. You'd have an incentive to have at least one of the NX parts, and hardcore fans wouldn't mind free games.

These are a lot of things, and I'm sure there are other things I didn't think about. So like I said, no rushing.