To those who say NX isn't coming this year

[Aeolus451]

AlfredoTurkey said:

Aeolus451 said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

 

Assuming a standard five year cycle, Nintendo's is 80% over this november, not half. The company has released two consoles (SNES and Wii-U) on a six year cycle and three on a five year cycle (N64, Gamecube and Wii). So really, releasing this November isn't that big a deal.

 

To most gamers, we're only 2 years into this gen because to them, this gen started in 2013 and not when wii u launched. It is roughly the halfway point of the gen either way. 

But the generation started in 2012 regardless of what "those" people think or say. The ninth generation will start the moment NX launches.

 

That may be true except the "what those people think or say" part but to consumers, NX would be releasing in the middle of this gen. Perception matters. Why would consumers invest in a new console that's launching out of no where when there's two consoles with 3rd party support and lots of games to play? The xbox one and PS4 haven't hit their peaks yet sales wise and that could easily be this year.

The main difference between launching this november and next year's november will be in the amount of games NX will have  to launch with. Whatever games nintendo has avaible to launch NX with this november versus all of the games in that period added to all of the games up to next years november. Which is greater? So yes, releasing this november compared to 2017's november is a big deal.