| Jon-Erich said: People have to understand. Nintendo had no choice but to announce the codename for their console. I specifically say that because they had already announced their intentions of making a new console the previous year. But yeah, they had to make that announcement. When they announced their mobile plans, If they would have ended on just that, that would have made everyone assume that they were going to abandon the hardware business altogether since Wii U sales are kind of poor. That's the reason NX was announced that same day. By announcing a codename for their supposed next platform, that reassured the public whatever they were working on was far enough in the development stages to be given an actual codename and since Nintendo had intended on staying in the hardware business, that meant that they HAD to continue supporting Wii U for the next several years. |
I was going to hit the reply button to say pretty much the same thing.
They had no choice but to announce the NX the day they announced their partnership with DeNA. It was the only way they could reassure people that developing dedicated game systems is still a part of their strategy. A premature announcement of the NX followed by a long silence is probably a compromise between showing the Wii U isn't being cut short and showing they're still going to be in the dedicated game system business.
