Nintendo Switch Press conference: January 12 2017 in Tokyo

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bunchanumbers said:

Einsam_Delphin said:

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.

You gotta admit that it would minimize negative press. The only way it could do any better would be if they found a way to launch it that same day. And its not like console makers didn't do reveals to lower the impact of a rival. Sony did it to MS when they did their reveal. MS even sent workers to Best Buy to counter Wii U when they were doing their E3 at Best Buy event. Nintendo could have just as easily did this with Switch this holiday season. Instead they decided to wait. I'm thinking because they are not confident in their product.

How would it minimize negative press in any way? It's only the opposite since there's less time for people to forget or come to terms with the bad news.