To those who say NX isn't coming this year

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bigtakilla said:

Pavolink said:

elektranine said:

More powerful and potentially more developer support. The Wii U was basically a more powerful Wii which was a more powerful GameCube. If NX comes out this year get ready for a more powerful Wii U.

 

By that logic it will better to wait until 2018 or 2019 or 2020 or 2021. Any of those years will be better than 2017.

 

 

Easy answer. We have to take into account the approximate timeline of when affordable hardware seems to get strong enough to push out the equivalent on the competition. Next year would be around $250 based on what the PS4 Will likely be selling at. This is the benchmark that Nintendo has set for themselves for their console to cost.

 

Then let's get into software. Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong, Splatoon (which released Feb of the year after), and Smash (released early summer 2014) would all have launch window titles of their next games if the console launched in 2017 based on a 3 year development cycle that the Wii U set for games (Not to mention a year in development for the next Zelda).

A 2016 launch would have a 3D Worlds successor and the Retro game.... Maybe. Back to crossing our fingers with third party games and hoping that brings in customers (which worked amazing for Wii U).

 

NX home console in 2016 would be a bad idea. Wouldn't be the first that Nintendo has made. Here's hoping they play it smart and launch the handheld first.