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Miyamotoo on 20 November 2015
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Mummelmann said:
Miyamotoo said:

Point of OP is that Nintendo is finished with Wii U and that are focused on NX now. I dont see how could you realise that in mid 2013. when we had huge announcements in 2013. and basically no one heavy hitter was not launched yet!?


Developing hardware and software takes time, with the Wii U off to such a terrible start, it was no massive leap in logic to think that Nintendo would already start shifting resources and attention towards their next console and a chance for a better beginning.
I'm not saying that they decided in mid-2013 to do this, but this was around the time it became clear to me that they would have to jump out the gate next gen and it seemed logical that they would shift their attention elsewhere instead of hammering cold iron, especially with them losing money on the Wii U still.
Were they "finished with the 8th gen" in mid-2013? Not really, but as with the Sega Dreamcast; we've seen that things can move quickly when consoles sell slowly, and the Dreamcast actually sold faster, it was not such a far-fetched conclusion for me to make at the time as one might think.

I agree, but again, point of OP is that Nintendo is finished with Wii U and that are focused on NX now, and you wrote "I think I realized this sometime in mid-2013", nobody knew back then when Nintendo will start focus on NX or how long Wii U will last.

Nintendo probably start shifting projects, resources and attention to NX in late 2014. or erly 2015, and that was obvious when we didn't had any big Wii U announcement at E3.