Miyamoto: Nintendo Waiting to Reveal NX Because of "Idea"

[DonFerrari]

MrCkurab said:

DonFerrari said:

If in a 5 years you take 2 to 3 years at a very slow pace just throwing ideas and concept you can't really say the development takes 5 year... as I said, it start basically as soon as they release one console up to the release of the next one. Will you say then that Xbox One took 10 years to be developed? Nope... it took they 2-3 years and the others were just concepts and technology assessment.

concepting, technology assessment and working that into a prototype is what one usually refers to as "developing a console"

The 2-3 years you are talking about are the home-stretch, finalizing the tech, making sure everythings ready at launch, prepping pr, etc...
Its the last part of the development as a whole. Again, I know how easy it is to underestimate the time stuff like this takes, but seriously, this is, just like developing a game, a whole lot more work than one might believe and it often takes much longer than one would expect.

Man, I also deal with high technology and I'm certain that if my company really had to take 5 years to just implement an evolution in a system they would be out of bussinees... of course the project as a whole could even take some decades but a P&D can't be full going 5 years per product and expect a good profitability.