Conina said:
Kagerow said:
If they're shipping in July/August, that would mean at least 2016 Q3. That confirms NX isn't launching at 2016.
Once chip is received, they need to print the circuit board, put the chip in, complete the parts, test it, then send it to assembly to assemble with parts.
Then it needs to be packaged, while sending samples and getting licenses while planning for the distribution.
Even playing cards are completely printed at least 3 month before launch. I doubt console is going to be any faster.
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They start mass production of the CPU/APU this year, the chip design with samples gets done way earlier.
And they first design the chip and only after that they design the other parts? Maybe they worked this way in the eighties...
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No, I'm assuming all parts are already designed, and all the chips (APU and all other parts) gets shipped to the manufacture at Q3.
Once parts arrive, they will assemble those parts to complete the board with printed circuit. (It is my mistake for using wrong word.)
Once that is done, they must perform massively parallel stress test it about a week for every machine to make sure they won't break.
Once that is done, board is sent to the next assembly to be inserted into the console casing, packaged with controllers and cables, then they must be sent to the shipping centre to be sent to distributor. All those step usually takes around two month for simple devices, but I expect at least three month for Nintendo console.
Also, they need to have pretty huge first wave supply, about several millions or so. That will require even more time. So my prediction is that console version won't happen this year. I think they can rush it to make it into December 2016, but I don't think they will do that.