What chance realistically would a "NX console" have launching in 2017 anyway?
That's FOUR YEARS after the PS4/XB1, they will have combined user bases approaching 90 million by then and no one is going to want to a 4-years too late console in that regard.
In that case, Nintendo may just be better off making the home version more like a "dock/companion" to the portable, sort of like an accessorie than anything major, because no one but Nintendo fans who must play games on their TV (which is only about 20% of the people who buy Nintendo hardware) are going to buy it.
At least fall 2016 is still kinda in the mid-cycle of the current gen, but 2017 is getting way too late, talk will turn to the XBox/PS4 successors not long after that, so no one is going to see the NX as being "new", and PS4/XB1 will have a library of hundreds of titles compared to the NX which will start at maybe like 12-15 games at best.
NX should also launch when ever Dragon Quest XI launches, letting Sony have an exclusivity period over DQXI just because you didn't want to release your hardware a little earlier is monumentally stupid, it would give Sony good momentum and brandshare in Japan, while you'll just be getting a late port of the game. So if that game is coming in 2016, the NX should be ready for 2016.
But hey, you'll get your extra year of Wii U "support" (most likely 90% of which are outsourced games to external studios). Yippie.
