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

[Hedra42]

teigaga said:

Bobbery said:

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. 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

As far as I understand it, NX is just the development codename, like Wii U was Project Cafe and Wii was Revolution.