Could this be the reason NX hits in March 2017?

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Soundwave said:
Eh whatever.

Glad the Wii U is dead.

It was a dumb idea from the get go and the entire Wii brand needs to be buried sooner than later, and in less than 10 months I'll be playing Nintendo games with at least PS4-fidelity (or at the least better than Wii U unless Nintendo has gone full retard). Good enough for me.

I have to admit part of me just wants to see Nintendo cancel the Wii U version of Zelda outright, lol. Make it for the NX and take full advantage of the hardware.

The problem is if the NX is going to be powerful it will also be expensive. Historically expensive Nintendo systems don't sell. People just don't see Nintendo products as premium merchandise. An inexpensive game streaming box would be cheap and would probably sell a lot more units.

All the hardcore Nintendo fans that would hate a streaming box and not purchase it would easily be replaced with casuals buying it. There are a lot more than 10 million people in the US with really good internet connections, and they could stream Nintendo games just fine.