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

[Rustuv]

You guys are forgetting how the NX was announced. Its actually very normalfor companies to start developing a system not long after launching their current console. The NX's announcement wasn't to build hype but to assure fans and investors that they were not abandoning the console market to make mobile phone games. I firmly believe that the system wouldn't even have been announced yet if not for the mobile thing. It's announcement was purely political.