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

[teigaga]

Bobbery said:

teigaga said:

I have to disagree. Unless they're going for a blue ocean strategy again (yet to be seen), a 2016 release for a home console makes no sense. Who are early adopters going to be? The people who just bought a Wii U  or the people who just bought the PS4/X1? They'll be entering a competitive market at its peak of competition, with a tarnished name and probably a disenfranchised core audience who were abandoned on the previous system. The question should really be,  whats to be earned by an imminent release? Who is their market going to be and why will third parties support a late thrid wheel?

The current situation is that they're financially stable and have an underperforming home console, thats been the situ for the last 3 years. I don't get why people are acting the Wii U only suddenly became a flop, waiting out bit longer is not going to damage them

100% this. Nintendo never should've announced the NX, people are way too worried about it. I don't think they had a choice though with the mobile announcement or else the rumors of going full mobile would've been more damaging.

I think they should have specified future dedicated gaming platform and nothing more. By giving it a name, they made it feel imminent causing all this speculation as well as fear amongst current Wii U owners and potential buyers. As someone who was certain to buy a Wii U this year, I will instead wait to see how things play out