Is NX off to a bad start? Destined to flop? or just a slow starter?

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Soundwave said:

spemanig said:
Nah. Plenty of tech release in Spring to good sales. What's cool about this is Nintendo is basically sticking it to E3 and will likely have their own venue instead. I guess they could also have a direct since it's supposed to be changing format this year, and this may be what that is for. Maybe the change in format is that it's live. Who knows.

Spring hasn't been kind to video games launches. Sega Saturn was the last console to try launching in spring. 

3DS was the last portable. 

Both launches went sour very quickly. 

It's not the opitmal time, but if Nintendo can't make holiday 2016, then it is what it is. No sense in burning an entire half fiscal year by waiting until holiday 2017 for the next bus to come, you may as well start walking. 

Knowing Nintendo they probably badly want Dragon Quest XI on day 1 too ... so that might have factored into the unusual release date, waiting too long maybe would've given Sony an unintended exclusivity window on the game for no reason if we assume that the game is say a spring 2016 release. 

Also vita was launched in Spring