Hiku said:
Aeolus451 said:
If you add up the months, it's a little over 5 years. The 5 year cycle is normal for nintendo's home consoles. I never said anything about being the norm for the other consoles. Can you give me a link to a quote from someone within nintendo that said NX is a home console?
I'm sure this is the one you mentioned earlier from reggie....
WSJ: Sony’s and Microsoft’s consoles have far outsold the Wii U. What’s your strategy to come out ahead?
Fils-Aime: The time frame that these systems are sold is quite long, and right now we’re still at the very early stages of the current generation. The other piece I would highlight is this is a global business. Don’t just look at what’s happening here in the U.S. Look at what’s happening globally.
From a Nintendo perspective, we clearly have strength here in the Americas, we have strength in Europe and we have strength in Japan. That isn’t necessarily true of some of our more direct competitors. We’ve also said publicly that we are already hard at work on our next home console and that’s another element we’ll be talking about much later.
NX wasn't even mentioned in it.
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If you add up the months of Nintendo console releases in Japan, it's 5,91 years. I went with Japan for consistency as that's when their first console released, which affected every subsequent release. Also because games released in Japan before western releases affect the western launch lineup in a positive way.
The US release cycle is about 5,4 years on average.
And I know you didn't say anything about it being the norm. I mentioned it because many people often do, and other people can read our conversation as well. So it wasn't aimed at you, or your point.
The point however, is that you said Nintendo never deviated from their 5 year cycle, even with the Wii, which is incorrect. NES and Wii had a 6 year cycle, even in USA.
As for the quotes, one of the them is the one you posted.
He said they've already made a public announcement about already woring on their next home console. I don't see any other public statements from Nintendo besides the one about NX fitting his statement here. And if you'd like to think that they are working on a console that is not NX, then go ahead, but that doesn't change the point. They're already talking about their next home console, call it NX or whatever you want, and that is a sign of it coming out sooner rather than later.
The second one from Watabe went like this:
"If we started for Wii U now, it would likely take three years or so. So it would likely now be on Nintendo's NX console,"
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-next-proper-metroid-prime-would-likely-now-be-on-nx
Besides calling it a console, moving production of a home console game to a handheld or something else would not make sense, nor would it be understod from his comment since he didn't specify anything of the sort. He's obviously talking about console to console. Whether he knows enough about the NX to comment on it is another question.
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Sounds like he saying that if he starting to work on the game at that moment, it would take until the next home console released because of the amount of dev time it would take. He assuming that the home console is called NX.
It makes sense that the console life cycle last longer in japan considering it's their turf and it just easier on them to support it there. I guess I should have worded it differently than just "they haven't devaited from the 5 year cycle" . I should of added "majority of the time" in there.
