Nintendo Switch Press conference: January 12 2017 in Tokyo

[Lawlight]

Einsam_Delphin said:

Lawlight said:
That's a long wait before any significant info is released and very little time before launch. My guess is that it's to minimize negativity once the bad news start rolling in.

You would choose to think negatively of any situation involving Nintendo, but I guess there is nothing really wrong with that. Though as others have already said, I think it's far more likely that they're avoiding having to compete with the holiday buzz and advertising when they have all the time and attention to themselves. Surely you can agree that this makes a lot of sense.

Sure that makes but there's no reason not to release information now in October. It's less than 6 months (closer to 5 months) until the NX's release. Why no games lineup reveal? Then they'll have to do PR and marketing for the hardware and the dozen or so games to be released in less than 2 months. The PS4 had 9 months from reveal to release.