Opinion: As earlier NX releases, as bigger are the chances it wont be what your waiting for.

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Soundwave said:

In the 80s (and early 90s) the market really was little boys more or less. The NES was even initially distributed by Mattel, the toy maker and video games were always in the toys section. 

That why "hardware upgrades" were such a big deal back then, I remember when the SNES launched (yes I am that old, lol), me and my brother had to beg *beg* our parents to buy us one for like 8 months straight and we only got it as a birthday gift. 

That's the reality of the market back then for most people. You had to rely on mommy/daddy to buy all new consoles and it was up to them. 

Now that I'm a grown ass man, I don't need to be babied like this anymore though. I, like most gamers, buy my own hardware and games with my own disposable income when ever I want. 

As such, the whole "5-6 year hardware cycle" to a degree has become outdated IMO, and I hope NX breaks it. We're also in the age of the internet and cloud accounts, evolving platforms like iOS, Android, and STEAM are as mainstream as it gets, NX should be more like that with more hardware models and the ability to upgrade older ones more often. 

As I said, I don't need to be treated like I'm 10 years old anymore, if I can upgrade my phone or tablet or STEAM-library PC, I think the time has come in 20-freaking 16 that we have a rethink of what a gaming platform can be. 

Ehh.. It wasn't little boys any more that it is today. Just because you were a kid in 1992 and an adult now, doesn't mean there weren't adults playing computers in 1992 and kids playing consoles today. I remember the huge difference between the first and latter half of the 80's; in the first half it was computers such as the hugely popular C64 that dads or soon to become ones were buying for themselves, and the latter half was the dads buying NES' for their kids.

Even today, the reality of market is, that lots of gamers depend on their moms and dads to buy them all new consoles. It it the kids. Just like it was in the 70's, in the 80's, in the 90's, in 2000's and the day it's going to change, is the day the industry is bankrupted.

I agree that the "5 year cycle" may be outdated. Usually it's been pretty safe bet for the next five years to buy a videogames console, but the last few generations have pretty much proven otherwise.