Miyamoto: We're Not Interested In High End Specs (Hardware)

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Soundwave said:

Rab said:

It wont launch until Holidays 2017, not until it has a formal unveiling probably at E3 2016 (1.5 years before release), this has been Nintendos and other developers usual practice 

 

GC

First spoken about at NPC 1999

First unveiling at a press conference in 2000

Launch - Holidays 2001

 

Wii

First spoken about at E3 2004

First unveiling at E3 2005 

Launch - Holidays 2006

 

WiiU

First spoken about at E3 2010

First unveiling at E3 2011

Launch - Holidays 2012

Fundamentally we have no idea. Nintendo could also take their time in the past as they had at least one good selling system at the time of all those previous announcements. 

People don't realize how low Nintendo's 3DS sales are sinking. At a target of only 9 million 3DS' for this fiscal year (one they are very likely to miss), Nintendo is looking at the lowest handheld shipment they've had in like 20 years. And the Wii U is selling very poorly, obviously as well. 

Also the handheld time line for reveal to launch is much tighter. 

DS was unveiled at E3 2004 and launched six months later. 3DS was announced in March 2010, and was released less than a year later (Feb 2011 in Japan). 

So these things are obviously subject to the situation. 

It could also be that Wii U/3DS sales are so weak right now they could have shown a hardware tease for NX at this past E3 but opted not to to preserve whatever holiday sales this year that they can. 

Actually the 3DS forcast is 7.6 million