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DélioPT on 03 January 2016
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Soundwave said:
DélioPT said:

 

Allow me to disagree on Wii being a fluke! :)

Everything around Wii (the brand itself, the marketing, the games, the machine itself) was premeditated.
There was a plan at work since the very beginning... it even started with NDS.

Did it turn out better than Nintendo anticipated? Yes. So much, that for 2 years Nintendo couldn't stop shortages.
The real problem was that Nintendo didn't read signs and thought that a tablet for a controller was a big idea. In theory, it kinda was, but in reality it really wasn't nothing new and the whole idea behind Wii U just wasn't carefully planned and relied too much on Wii's success.

If NX gets released now, they can "replace" it when PS5 and XB4 arrive on the market to make it competitive. Again, if it really is about the ecosystem and not the usual lifeycle of a console.
It can work.
The question is, are gamers ready for that? It would help, in my opinion, if they sell an ecosystem and not HW.

We will see... February or May (my guess!).

 

I don't think you "replace" anything ... do you replace STEAM? Now you'll look puzzled at that, but that's the point. Steam in no single piece of hardware. NX should be kinda like that IMO. 

There should just be new NX devices as time goes on. 

2016 - NX Portable and NX Console launch

2017 - NX Portable Pro launches

2018 - NX 4K Console launches

It's not 1989 anymore, people are willing to accept upgrading hardware as the norm (see: tablets, smartphones, etc.)

Etc. etc. I think Nintendo may have shown what the NX is already though through this patent, which shows basically an upgradable console:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/12/intriguing_nintendo_patent_points_to_supplemental_computing_device_and_cloud_resources_for_a_gaming_system

That's probably the NX IMO. And that is a pretty bold change from what they do today. 

I meant replace as in introduce a new variation. Just like with smartphones and tablets.

It's true that people are used to the idea of replacing smartphones and tablets, but it's still new to gaming and a bit different: in one year you pat 300$ plus a few hundred more for games and two years after, the same thing? It' s a move more expensive than just exchanging mobile devices. And that's what might put off some people.

Having a new model every year would probably anger gamers - and we know know they are a sensitive bunch!