megaman79 on 25 August 2012
Nintendo's really quite fascinating with their consoles lately.
They released the 3DS in March to give the market plenty of time to buy it, they dropped the price incredibly fast, and now they're bringing a 3DS update in the middle of the year, when nobody else pretty much gives a shit about the current state of console sales as a whole.
It would not surprise me at all to see Nintendo release the WII U in October.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.