Maybe NX is going to be a full gaming tablet by itself.

'You will hear more about NX next year' they literally said that when they announced it. Damn, people don't listen if they needed to reiterate that it would not be at E3 this year.

Although I'm not sure they should've announced it so soon.

Nintendo revealed it during their partnership with DeNA to make mobile games because they feared, and with a good reason, that many would see that move as a sign of Nintendo leaving the console business and going mobile, and they wanted to avoid that.

I understand why they did it, just kind of sucks in general to be like "Hey guys we're making a new thing! You'll have to wait a year to hear about it, so lets focus on something we know will be replaced soon by this mystery product" We all knew Nintendo was making new hardware it's just an unfortunate position.

Yeah, but they had no choice.

Even with the reveal of the NX, I read a couple of articles (that were later removed) stating that Nintendo was leaving the console market. Imagine what would have happened if they didn't announce that they were working on the NX!

Yeah, I'm aware of that hence why I said it's just an unfortunate position. They had to reassure, it just sucks because it actually does damage to other things.

Yep. It was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" (I think that's how the saying goes) situation.

My point was that it will release in holiday 2016. 

Nintendo announced the Wii U in the same fashion as MSony did their respective systems. Only difference was it was during consequtive E3s vs a few months apart. 

Also, Nintendo doesn't really attend the other game conferences with large fan-fare. They never reveal big information at the other game conferences. Their focus is usually on repeat information from E3 or possibly a new video/demo of a known game.

Nintendo would never mention a system and then fail to show it off for more than a year. That is just stupid. No company would do that.

Nintendo only mentioned NX because WiiU is not selling so hot and they wanted to generate some buzz for their investors. Everything they are doing  is setting up a new product launch in the near future.

- mobile company cooperation
- new rewards program
- delaying large title like Zelda
- announcing NX
- secret game projects mentioned on linkedin
and older stuff from a couple years ago....
- merging hardware departments
- merging eShop
- enhancing overall network systems

Nintendo is setting up a new platform and has been focused on this for quite some time now. WiiU is stale and like GC it will be replaced sooner than later. 2012 to 2016 is 4 years and long enough for a low-volume system that cannot be reduced much in costs to manufacture.

Nintendo must kick off its next platform sooner than later to meet its obligations with DeNA. There is no way that company is going to announce partnerships with Nintendo and not have a path to bi-directional product launch in less than a year.

NX is going to be revealed early 2016 with a final blow-out at E3 and launch in holiday 2016. All the evidence is there.

Ok, I have a lot of things to say, so let's break it into sections.

Launhing the same year they reveal the device would be a first for Nintendo.

Not that I disagree, just pointing it out that it is not their usual way of doing things (even if I think they are wrong).

Nintendo did with WiiU the same they did with the Wii and GC (and possibly N64 too, althought I don't remember). One E3 to reveal its existance and the next one to fully reveal the machine, its games and the price and launch dates.

They didn't do it like MSoft and Sony with their XboxOne and PS4.

False.

They mentioned NX only because they were announcing a partnership with a mobile games company and feared that the media would read that as Nintendo leaving the console business, nothing else.

The rest of the things you list are normal business on Nintendo (Zelda delay? When has that happened before?), any videogame company (unnanouced games, reward programs like their own Club Nintendo rewards, Games with Gold/PSN+) or any business in general (mergin divisions and unify products). Those are movements to ensure that the company is efficient, wastes less money and resources, is agile enough to adapts to the new situations of the market rather fast and keeps their current customers happy and loyal.

Superchunk, please. Nintendo's obligations with DeNA are to develop and launch games for their mobile platform including known Nintendo characters, while DeNA helps them develop a unified account that works on a range of devices. And Nintendo has already announced that they will launch 5 mobile games by 2017, so they are going along with their deal.

There's zero evidence of that, only "hopes" from a few and wishful thinking from others.

We knew this was happening, it already makes E3 2016 really hype.