Wow. I know it's your opinion, and I respect it, but you know all of that... how?

We now almost anything about the NX! As I see it, it could be the best Nintendo console ever, or the worst, or even an average console. Until we get some official information from Nintendo all we can do is speculate.

If they release the NX so "early" we're getting another wii? Well, that sucks, I bet Nintendo don't want that. Who would want to sell 100m of consoles? Crazy, right?

Also, how can you be so sure about all of those games missing at launch or missing at all? Have you seen Nintendo's output these past year? There have been some great games, but lots were cheap and quick games to fill the catalog. Are you seriously expecting Nintendo have been doing nothing for the NX all this time? Retro and ead 1 I think, have been working for two years on something, and some small games being filler indicate that they are indeed working on the NX. 

If I had to choose, I'll be the happiest man if they release NX platform in november 2016. If it's good and has good games and price people will buy it. Think about this, maybe people do the same as with the ps4, and 50m buy it "because my friend has bought it, so me too" xD

The only thing I agree with you is that maybe, just maybe, if they release it "too soon" it won't be what I'm expecting. I'd love it to have most of the leaked patents, specially that awesome free form controller, and it might be too soon for that (expensive, actually). But games? I'm sure they'll have plenty of games for the NX first year on the market.

At least that's what we should expect from them, to have learnt something from the wii u's failure.

But I'm optimistic. Merging handheld and console developing looks promising. I read somewhere that they release 18-24 games on average every year for both, now, if NX is really capable to play the same games in both, that would mean almost zero droughts. Everybody wins :P

Dear lord. Are those numbers right? Why is people not saying microsoft should go third party? Instead of the same old shit with Nintendo.

I know very little from xbox. Are they even profitable? I thought they were a beast as well, though not as big as sony.

I actually agree with you. But I think that's a good thing.

There is already a PS4 on the market. We don't need another one. If Nintendo is just going to have a PS4 like system with Nintendo games, I'd rather they just go third party.

I would. I'll buy NX in 2016.

NX is a platform anyway, likely not just a "system". This is an important distinction to make, it means NX is not any singular device.

As such an earlier release is better IMO.

For all head starts are *not* bad. Having a headstart helped the Genesis eventually hang tough with the Super NES because Sega had several years to build up a library.

The headstart definitely helped the Playstation establish itself before the N64 came to market too and make brand inroads big time.

The headstart for the PS2 basically won them the generation.

XBox 360 was helped by its year headstart too.

It's just a matter of not being completely outdated with your tech, which is the problem with the Wii U, but lets be honest, that is hardly the best chip Nintendo could have had for 2012, they very easily could've had a 1 TFLOP GPU (in line with the XB1 at least).

It's Nintendo's own insistence on the stupid "underpowered" hardware that hasn't helped them of late (it's not even that cheap to boot).

They need to go back to the SNES-GameCube design philosophy of good, relatively modern hardware which can still be sold at a reasonable price.

And then in 2017/2018 IMO they could release a 4K home NX which matches up evenly with the PS5. Most of the PS5's visual "jump" over the PS4 will be eaten up by that need to run 4K games anyway.

So just have multiple hardware models. The key is to get people locked into the NX ecosystem, once you do that it's much easier for the consumer to stay within the NX ecosystem rather than buy a seperate PS5/XB2 ... if I can just keep my game library and upgrade the hardware when I feel the need to, that's fine.

because it wont be a direct competitor in 2018. it would be a new gen, a competition to ps5/xbox two. 

Depends on what it is, if NX is a platform that can be upgraded, I'd probably rather just pay $200 for a "supplemental computing device" (Nintendo patented this) that beefs up my existing system rather than pay another $400 for a PS5. Plus I already have my existing library of games on my NX. 

I can see the appeal of such an approach. 

Most of the "next-gen" leap is honestly going to be eaten up by the need to support 4K resolution, which is 4x the pixels of 1080P, meaning graphically it may not even be that big of a leap as people think. For a next-gen "4K system" to match say a 3 TFLOP current gen system @1080p, it would have to be in the 12TFLOP+ range.

For Nintendo for the dedicated home console it could be quite smart just to make a really strong 1080P console, PS5/XB2 could have a lot of headaches significantly outperforming while having to render at 4K. 

2018 would be perfect. It can (and needs to be) significant strogner then ps4 but still affordable (not possible in 2016).

Then people who already got an ps4 will consider nx as an alternative to ps5 (similar to what xbox360 did).

Just be able to play third party games at little higher settings, resolution or framerate as ps4 wont make much people to get an expensive nx. The would just stay to their ps4. And they wont buy the system for the exclusives, because atm they dont even buy the cheaper wii u for its exclusives.

Most normal console owners just want 1 console/gen, NX cant deliver that in 2016.

They should be able to make something considerably more powerful than a PS4 this year or next year though. You don't need to wait until 2018.

AMD has 14nm/16nm Arctic Islands GPUs coming this year that will blow the PS4's GPU out of the water.

I'd say release a 3TFLOP-range high end console this fall and start building that userbase quick (having Zelda, Splatoon 2, and Mario 3D in the first 6-8 months will be critical).

Then in 2018 release a 4K NX model. 

NX is a platform, it's no single console or portable. Nintendo games just scale up and down, third parties have the choice (games can work on specific models depending on hardware need or all them if they want). 

Why adhere to "rules" if they only benefit Sony/MS. Change the rules, it's 2016, you don't have to keep making hardware like it's 1989 forever. 

nope, never said it should launch 2017. So its logical.

Nonetheless, in 2017 it could already be strong enough to compete against an probl ps5 and be a real 9th gen console.