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| NoirSon said: If it comes out this year, I will have to pray for Nintendo not to have made a costly mistake releasing a console mid generation and that they actually learned from the lessons of the past instead of talking like they did as we saw with the launches of the 3DS and Wii U. |
Neither the Wii U or 3DS were "mid-generation" releases though and both flopped.
Technology did not stop Nintendo from making a comparable system to the PS4/XB1 either, 1 TFLOP processors tech was available then. They are the ones who banked on the Wii formula again of outdated hardware + casual mini-game centric library and thought that would carry them the next 5-6 years. It didn't.
There's nothing wrong with launching a bit early, the Sega Genesis and Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 and XBox 360 are examples of systems that launched 1-2 years before their main competetion and were better off for doing so.
People think Nintendo can't get access to powerful hardware ... they can. They made the SNES and N64 and GameCube. They purposely chose not to in the last couple of gens because of strategy of aiming for casuals ... which worked great for a while and then it didn't as it's a fairly unpredictable audience.
