the_dengle on 29 April 2016
Exhibit A, Zelda Wii U explicitly stated to be a 2016 release by Nintendo as recently as 6 months ago. Exhibit B, Zelda Wii U delayed to March 2017. Xzibit C, NX launching in March 2017 "to make sure there are games to go along with the NX."
It stands to reason if Zelda was originally planned to release in 2016, then the system it is serving as a launch title for was also planned to release in 2016.
You can call it whatever you want, I don't need to use the "d" word. Nintendo planned to launch NX this year, but decided against it because they didn't have enough games ready. This was all but confirmed in the Q&A. The rest is just semantics.
