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Lonely_Dolphin on 27 October 2016
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Nuvendil said:
Einsam_Delphin said:

Um they did release information now in October. Are you trying to pretend they didn't, is that why you're still calling it the NX?

2 months seems like plenty of time to me and Nintendo must think so aswell. Sony doing something else doesn't mean that's the only way to do it.

Well it wasn't much info, let's be fair.  Even though it did accomplish getting quite a good reception and has reserved Nintendo a bit of mindshare ahead of the main event. 

And even though I don't agree with the idea they are doing this to minimize negativity (as I just said, this is a bad plan for that), I won't defend the short span completely.  Yes it has advantages - namely that they can keep the hype at a fever pitch from announcement to launch if they play it right - but there are plenty of past precedents to show properly handled early announcements are very succesful, just look at the PS4 and Nintendo's own Wii.

My guess is this is more down to the games lineup situation, namely third and second parties.  With the Wii U, Nintendo went out on a limb in 2011 and early 2012, boasting of partnerships they actually didn't have locked down at all based on what we now know (evidence now suggests early 2011 was when they *started* negotiating those partnerships, which is mental).  And then that all backfired, perhaps the EA and Nintendo "unprecedented partnership" being the most famous implosion.  So I think it is entirely possible Nintendo wanted to make dead certain that they had these 3rd and 2nd parties as locked in as possible, not to mention having actual games from them to show running on the actual end product with actual release dates.  Wouldn't be the first time Nintendo over-compensated :P

I'd be good with that reasoning, but I honestly hope Nintendo isn't bending backwards for the unreliable third partys. Even despite seeing third party games running on NX and that big list of developers, I won't believe Nintendo truely has their support until a year later and they're still there.