Knowing the big titles coming next year, do you still think the NX will be coming out holiday 2016?

[Darwinianevolution]

Soundwave said:

Darwinianevolution said:
I would like to know the titles PS4 has prepared for 2017. The 2016 PS4 lineup sounds amazing, but if Nintendo releases the NX when its main competitor is getting an All-Star selection too, that could slow first year sales down a lot. Unless they release the portable NX first, the handheld scene needs new blood ASAP.

NX is NX. Once one launches, then as far as I'm concerned the whole thing has launched because it's likely to just be shared games, so in that case it doesn't really matter if one launches first, second, or they launch at the same time. Could be even three NX devices or four, like Iwata once mentioned. It doesn't matter. 

The game development for NX has to come from somewhere, "handheld" games don't take any less time to develop either ... Kid Icarus Uprising took 2+ years to develop, Mario 3D Land took as long as Mario 3D World, Smash 3D had the same development length as Smash U, etc. 

I hope the NX is a hybrid system too. But I still think the handheld space needs some new blood more than the home console one. Home consoles are getting a constant stream of titles, both 1st Party exclusives or 3rd party multiplats. But in the handheld space, we only really have the Nintendo games (which, since the end of 2014, haven't been enough for the system in terms of numbers) and the medium-small titles both 3DS and Vita get from japanese developers. That's it.. Even indies are focusing more on home consoles than handhelds. It seems that Sony won't make a Vita successor, the 3DS lack of power makes the system loose a lot of potential games and its hardware sales are too slow for Nintendo's liking.

I know handheld developement is almost the same as home console developement nowadays. I just think Nintendo will be more succesfull pushing the handheld version first. In the case that the NX were just a home console, it could get a decent amount of support at this moment, but it would risk itself to be abandoned by 3rd parties in a year or two. Nintendo handhelds have already a great reputation and a decent amount of system sellers already. The handheld part will most certainly push the system the most, thanks to japanese developers love for handhelds, and specially if Pokemon Go is a success and people get interested in the franchise in spades.