Nomura Securities, a financial services group and global investment bank, appears to have leaked info on the announcement and release date of Nintendo's next platform:

- According to analyst Junko Yamamura, Nintendo will make NX available by 2016 year-end’s shopping season. Nomura expects Nintendo to announce the “concept” sometime between March and May, unveil the actual console in June, and launch it between October and November. “We think the NX will start to boost operating profits in 18/3, when it will have been on the market for a full year and will have a line-up of software titles, which carry high operating margins.”

- on the next platform effect on the sales of the WiiU and 3DS he said:

We had previously thought that the NX launch would have only a limited impact on 3DS and Wii U sales as it is not being positioned as a successor to either console, but we have now altered our view because 3DS sales have been weakening a little recently, particularly in terms of software, as the machine enters its sixth year, and to factor in a harsher competitive climate and what happened to other existing consoles when new machines were launched in the past.

We still expect the NX to launch in 17/3. We have lowered our estimates for current consoles to reflect the present situation, fiercer competition, and what has happened in the past when new hardware is announced… We have reduced our operating profit forecasts for 16/3 by 5.7% and for 17/3–21/3 by 30.0–32.7%.

http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/2016/01/05/nintendo-slips-nx-to-eat-into-3ds-wii-u-nomura-cuts-target/

I'm pretty sure this is just speculation on their part, not really leaked info. Not sure how they would know anyway.

Never heard of them. But are the trustable?
But i can see Nintendo showing the console at June = e3

It's what we are all thinking

http://www.nomuraholdings.com/company/group/nsc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura_Securities

I would gladly eat crow if this is so. But I'm still betting on a 2017 release unless NX is something REALLY special.

Will wait for actual reveal, my guess is still 2017..

I think that's about right. It's also aligned with Nintendo planning to release their first mobile app/game and the Nintendo account system around March of this year. Will be interesting to see how NX will integrate with all these new elements within Nintendo's revamped ecosystem.

We will see handheld console 1st.

Dunno if there is much more to say on this. A lot of rumors and speculation have been hinting on this for a good awhile now. I wonder how many times are we going to hear roughly the same thing?