so why can't we just congratulate gamemaster87 then? why the posts from Einsam_Delphin then 

"We didn't laugh at gamemaster for saying NX 2017, we laughed at him for his insane levels of denial.

"Meh, he just got lucky something went wrong during NX development."

why not just say "well gamemaster we laughed at you, but you were right in the end congratulation" shouldn't be hard to do

Aeolus451 said: There's gonna be a lot of crow avatars around here. i knew it. Nintendo is more likely to stick to tradition/their launch pattern than to stray from it. 2016 was too early.

This isn't any pre-existing pattern at all. 

Wii U is being dumped after 4 years (really not even as it seems like they have jack all for it this fall) effectively. 

NX coming 3 months later than some expected is not a huge difference in the grand scheme of things, the people who predicted this stuff like Zelda would be on the NX, Nintendo is ditching the Wii U, NX is coming fall 2016 ... were still largely correct, just off by a few months. 

The "hope" for the "2017" crowd was that a 2017 NX launch meant a full extra year of real support from Nintendo -- that clearly is not the case and no exclusive Zelda for Wii U now either, so that ship has sailed too. 

and what went wrong in the developement?

And what would that something be?  The NX never had a release date prior to today, anything before was speculation, including the assertion something went wrong with NX development.  This is Nintendo's third official statement on it and the first with an actual date.

I also think one reason could be that someone thought it be a good idea to not go against ps4 during Christmas. Perhap fear of bad press after PS4 smashed Nintendo.

Just a guess, but I suspect yield issues for AMD's 14nm chips was too low for Nintendo to get the numbers they would need for holiday launch, so they had to delay it by a few months. 

Soundwave said: Aeolus451 said: There's gonna be a lot of crow avatars around here. i knew it. Nintendo is more likely to stick to tradition/their launch pattern than to stray from it. 2016 was too early. This isn't any pre-existing pattern at all.  Wii U is being dumped after 4 years (really not even as it seems like they have jack all for it this fall) effectively.  NX coming 3 months later than some expected is not a huge difference in the grand scheme of things, the people who predicted this stuff like Zelda would be on the NX, Nintendo is ditching the Wii U, NX is coming fall 2016 ... were still largely correct, just off by a few months.  The "hope" for the "2017" crowd was that a 2017 NX launch meant a full extra year of real support from Nintendo -- that clearly is not the case and no exclusive Zelda for Wii U now either, so that ship has sailed too.

Most of this site assumed it was gonna release in 2016 based on all that evidence.  

Nintendo has been following a launch pattern with it's home consoles.

every company is confident in its new product. no matter how shitty it turns out. just look at the halcyon presentation.

He was right about about 1 thing and that was the year(and even then he was still wrong) but nothing else.

Zelda is coming to the NX, Wii U isn't going to get a ton of exclusive games from  Nintendo in 2016-17, Metroid and Aminal Crossing aren't coming to the Wii U and NX is launching not only in March but under 5 years of the Wii U this are all thing he got wrong .

Good. That will give Sony that tiny chance that at least someone will buy their most hated product this year.