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

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outlawauron said:

Mummelmann said:

I agree somewhat with this, the time of 7-10 year lives for consoles has passed. The consumer electronics industry is becoming really fast-paced and consoles become static products in a turbocharged overall environment.

Times are indeed changing, I believe I've said as much in the UNITY thread as well.

What makes you say that? PS3 games still get made and it's unlikely we'll see a PS5 for another 3-5 years. Console lifecycles are getting longer, not shorter.

That's the point. PS360 games were only being made as the PS4/XB1 did not share the same OS and you could not have games easily cross-over. But that is wasted $$. 

Building a platform where new hardware does not deprecate all of the software is where we're headed.