Soundwave said:
Mummelmann said:
It's good business to miss the craziest shopping season of the year? There's a reason manufacturers and game developers flood the last quarter with games and devices; this is the season when a lot more consumers buy a lot more stuff they wouldn't buy otherwise.
Look at the figures for revenue in all sectors of shopping for the holiday season and tell us again how it's good business to miss this opportunity. Heck; look at vgchartz own numbers and the fact that roughly half of a calendar year's worth of sales comes in the last quarter of the year, with the last six weeks of the year often trippling or more the weekly numbers of previous quarters weekly numbers.
I'm sorry, but this is some really strange reasoning. New products do not get discounts if they launch during the holidays; they may well sell great numbers due to news value though. Look at how (relatively) well the Wii U did in its launch window over the holidays, and then look at how fast it sank into the 1st quarter, imagine if they postponed the launch until March the following year, the numbers would have been disastrous and the whole product could have lost absolutely all credibility as a commodity from the very start.
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I think they honestly tried pretty hard to make the holiday season. They probably could have launched it in November, but they would have had supply issues possibly from having to fab a 14nm chip (which is too power efficient for them to pass up). I think actually they could have launched with just Zelda and Paper Mario + a bunch of third party ports if they absolutely had for November, but they probably would've been screwed for the next 2-4 months after that and would have had to suffer through a similar drought as the 3DS/Wii U and taking all that into account, they opted to move back into March.
If they can't have Christmas, I think they settled on having NX at least by the end of the fiscal year end.
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Oh, I'm 100% sure they were aiming for a holiday release, the March date is likely a result of complications and not a smart decision. However, I still hold that, if given the option, missing the holiday season on purpose is not "good business"... 
