Why is there so much hope for NX?

[StarOcean]

Miguel_Zorro said:

StarOcean said:
There's nothing that exists that suggests the NX will be successful. Truth be told, it has many many disadvantages that lead me to believe the NX will be a failure (if it's a console). However the console market is completely unpredictable. No one would have predicted the PS4 would win Gen 8 -people expected the Wii U to be #1 due to price and name brand or the X1 to be #1 because of popularity of the brand in NA and 3rd party deals. This time the strongest and most expensive console is winning (never happened). When it comes to gaming, anyone's guess is valid due to the complete unpredictability of it all

I wouldn't go that far.  Lots of people predicted that the PS4 would win Gen-8, especially after they announced the specs.  Both the PS3 and 360 has some momentum in gen 7, with Wii sales drying up.  The debate was between the XBox One and the PS4.  When the specs were announced, most people predicted a PS4 win.  When Microsoft had those DRM misteps to start the gen, it was pretty much decided.

I'm talking pre-Gen 8 kinda shit, like when Wii U was still Project Cafe and X1 was 720 and PS4 was like.. Orbus? ("They won't call it the PS4 because 4 is an unlucky number in Asian countries"). By the time the Wii U was hitting droughts and the PS4 and X1 were revealed we knew, but I was mainly referring to speculation before we knew much about the systems.