Soundwave said:
Furukawa just said though the only reason they even announced the NX was to assure investors/consumers that they were not getting out of the hardware business when announcing their smartphone games. The Switch only had a real marketing campaign of 4 months from product reveal to launch. 3DS/Wii/DS/GameCube are ancient history now, it's clear Nintendo doesn't operate that way anymore. Even with software launches, they barely did any hype building for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom until very late before release. GameCube was announced in May 1999 by the way, released in September 2001, so roughly 2 1/2 years. Nintendo used to announce hardware *3 YEARS* ahead of time in the past, Super NES was announced in 1987 by Mr. Yamauchi, N64 in 1993 (the SNES was barely 2 years old in the US market, lol). Times change. With the advent of social media and Youtube, you just don't need one year to launch a product. PS5 and Switch were both basically unveiled and launched in 6 months with plenty of hype for both. |
While Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 were revealed the same year they were released. They were announced a year before that.
Microsoft announced Series X as Project Scarlett at E3 2019.
Sony announced PS5 as "Next-generation Hardware" around April 2019. Reaffirmed it in a financial report. So announced =/= revealed.
The switch was announced in 2015 but revealed in October 2016.
I expect a new switch announced in 2024. However, I don't see it being revealed until very late 2024 or Early 2025.
