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bigtakilla on 16 September 2015
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Soundwave said:

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. 

If they have a strong showing of software, and are willing to talk about projects that are still years out like the other companies are doing, I think they could easily find their space (just as the Wii U could have if there weren't so many freaking game droughts). They just need to get the right exclusives, and have the right first party titles at launch. And if they got something that is new and catches the consumers eye, all the more reason to get one when we're in the middle of a gen.

Getting Dragon Quest XI doesn't seem like (to consumers) that big of a deal. The series doesn't sell. Besides, how is releasing a game along side a system people have any different than waiting a year? If people have a PS4, they aren't going to rush out to get a NX because of Dragon Quest XI, lol. Complete non issue. 

Waiting an extra year could mean all the difference when companies have been known to exchange parts for better ones before mass production even within a year of release (the XBone did). Waiting another year for parts to become cheaper and have better hardware in the system (especially when bigger titles are still being released for the Wii U) is certainly not a terrible idea.