NX launches March 2017 Globally

[Wyrdness]

Hiku said:

I think he is talking about how poorly WiiU did when they took this secluded approach of only relying on themselves. 360 and Megadrive competed with PS3 and SNES and had many of the same games.
So when you look at WiiU as an 8th gen console, it was a collosal failure in that regard. And I don't think Nintendo can do anything about the 9th generation on their own either, outside of what they did for the WiiU themselves. No one else will make 9th gen games until the industry as a whole is ready to move forward.
So if we look at NX as a 9th gen console, it will likely be a failed one as well in that regard. I expect most of NX's games to be 8th gen titles + Nintendo's own games. Therefore I'll probably refer to it as Nintendo's 7th generation console, or one that joins the collective 8th generation a few years late.

I don't really see your angle here tbh it can't fail as a 9th gen until other 9th gen platforms arrive and have been established, third parties won't make 9th gen games but Nintendo and their second parties will, a gen isn't decided by you and your personal view it's decided by platform release. That's the whole point of Megadrive and 360 they used the approach to establish a foothold, 8th gen titles plus Nintendo's offerings is already vast improvement over the Wii U.

Wii U also didn't have a secluded approach in fact it's approach was pretty much the same as other platforms before it, NX 's approach is more closer to the Wii actually which was kept in secrecy.