Soundwave on 27 June 2015
| Cloudman said: If that is true, sounds concerning. They barely just started talking to them, when the NX is going to be revealed next year..? Shouldn't that have been done a long time ago? If the NX released 2016 or 2017, doesn't sound like a lot of time to prepare games for their launch line up. |
It's actually fairly in line with the Wii U. Developers were briefed on the system around April 2011. It launched in November 2012.
So now we have developers being briefed in June 2015 or so (maybe even earlier?), which points to a November 2016 launch.
More or less the same time line.
Nintendo has said they don't want to show the system because they don't want the gimmick/"novel idea" of the machine stolen. That and Wii U/3DS sales are too fragile right now, no point in showing NX just to upstage the Wii U/3DS and lessen whatever holiday sales they were going to get.
