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bigtakilla on 17 September 2016
Viktor said:
No point in showing your cards too early, competition can and will copy a promising idea. Also we know how fast news spread nowadays, so there really is no significant problem in having the reveal a little bit closer to the actual launch. Keep in mind that while March 2017 is the first target, the launch date isn´t set in stone yet

Information spread rather easily in 2005 too, if you want to be honest. I mean, the internet isn't new.



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chakkra on 17 September 2016

I think is all about not killing 3DS sales this early.  I mean the machine is selling roughly 400,000 units per month and it will sell a lot more than that in December.   And as much as Nintendo says (and maybe actually believes) that the NX is not coming to replace it...  well, if it is a handheld, there is no way around that.



Mbolibombo on 17 September 2016

Well how could we possibly know? Surely they have people working with stuff like this. They have their reasons and wont change because an angry teenage internet mob gets angrier by the day.



bigtakilla on 17 September 2016
Mbolibombo said:
Well how could we possibly know? Surely they have people working with stuff like this. They have their reasons and wont change because an angry teenage internet mob gets angrier by the day.

Hopefully that's the case, but if it's the same "people" that decided the past 2 E3 events were fine, they may need new "people". Besides a group on a website who the majority love Nintendo, I wander how many people even care about Nintendo. Maybe they should take the anger of teenage internet mobs to mind.



Darwinianevolution on 17 September 2016
bigtakilla said:
Mbolibombo said:
Well how could we possibly know? Surely they have people working with stuff like this. They have their reasons and wont change because an angry teenage internet mob gets angrier by the day.

Hopefully that's the case, but if it's the same "people" that decided the past 2 E3 events were fine, they may need new "people". Besides a group on a website who the majority love Nintendo, I wander how many people even care about Nintendo. Maybe they should take the anger of teenage internet mobs to mind.

At the very least they should listen to the internet more. Sure, there is a controversy everytime a leaf falls from a tree, but sometimes they can point you out to a problem your userbase has with you.



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bigtakilla on 17 September 2016
Darwinianevolution said:
bigtakilla said:

Hopefully that's the case, but if it's the same "people" that decided the past 2 E3 events were fine, they may need new "people". Besides a group on a website who the majority love Nintendo, I wander how many people even care about Nintendo. Maybe they should take the anger of teenage internet mobs to mind.

At the very least they should listen to the internet more. Sure, there is a controversy everytime a leaf falls from a tree, but sometimes they can point you out to a problem your userbase has with you.

Truth, sometines, just sometimes the internet mobs have a point.



Mbolibombo on 17 September 2016
bigtakilla said:
Mbolibombo said:
Well how could we possibly know? Surely they have people working with stuff like this. They have their reasons and wont change because an angry teenage internet mob gets angrier by the day.

Hopefully that's the case, but if it's the same "people" that decided the past 2 E3 events were fine, they may need new "people". Besides a group on a website who the majority love Nintendo, I wander how many people even care about Nintendo. Maybe they should take the anger of teenage internet mobs to mind.

2016 years E3 was fine they delivered what they promised and Zelda turned heads so no complaints there, 2015 was a disaster though that much is certain, we expected so much and got so little.

An angry mob on the internet obviously doesnt know how to make business decisions - especially when it comes to a huge company like Nintendo. They obviously are doing what they think is best for the NX, for Nintendo. 



bigtakilla on 17 September 2016
Miyamotoo said:
Dunban67 said:

very possible-  it just feels like they are not ready yet, that there are 1 or more aspects of the NX and or its lineup that thet are not comfortable with yet

Point is that today you relly dont need more than around 6 monts to revile your console before launch , XB1 was revealed 6 monts before launch, PS4 Pro only 2 monts before launch, today companies want shorter time before revile and launch of product, it has much better effect, you can easily mantine hype and interest from revile to launch.

Wii U was revield one year before launch, and had teribile revile, first impresion and marketing, with NX they dont need to revile it too soon and they already said they have new "concept" and "new way of playing", so from that side they also want to predict NX, very strong NX NDA (sources saying NDA is stronger than ever before) proves that. Curently is all about right timint of revile, I am sure NX will be revile sometime in next 4-5 weeks.

How can a NDA be stronger than another. That kind of makes no sense.



VitroBahllee on 17 September 2016
thismeintiel said:
Nautilus said:
The first paragraph is so wrong that I wont comment on that.

To the rest, it has happened many times before.The analog stick, motion controls, controller general scheme.All came from Nintendo.Just because Sony is winning now wont mean they wont notice what their competitors are doing.

Sony is the one who reintroduced (they were used on the Atari 5200 and Vectrex) analog sticks as we know them today, as well as the dual stick EVERYONE uses now.  No one copied the tech used in the N64 controller, not even Nintendo.  Sony was also the one who reintroduced motion controls (again something that dates back to the Atari) back on the PS2, including developing, though never releasing, a controller the Eyetoy could track. Now, I will concede that the success of the Wii is what prompted them to actually continue developing and release the Move. Oh, and here's the Vectrex controller, a system that launched 8 months before the NES.

Look familiar? No? Replace the 1 with Select and the 2 with Start, then add a Dpad where the analog stick is. Uh oh? Nintendo copies confirmed. See, anyone can play that game.

You know the Famicom came out a year before the NES, right?



Alby_da_Wolf on 17 September 2016
Qwark said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

They'll launch it in March 2017, that's in 6 months if it will be in the second half, anyway, 5 or 6 months doesn't change much, but they cannot start advertising and PR full steam before Xmas 2016, otherwise they'd kill Xmas sales of current products.
I expect revelations and advertising to really start next January, and probably more hints than now already in the next months, but not so many to spoil 3DS Xmas sales.
Yes, Internet awareness isn't  equal to full mass awareness, but nowadays it's already become quite close to it.
Not to mention that launching in March, NX will have two big marketing campaigns in its first year, for launch and for Xmas 2017.

There is one problem, will people get the concept of the NX in time. You can release a PS5 and announce it a month before it launches and over a million per orders are placed none the less.

There NX is a different story it's a new concept and for this moment we don't know how it works. Nintendo should take the time explaining what the NX is, how powerful it is, how it works and why we shold buy one, Zelda alone is not gping to do it. If they don't do that they could have another Wii U failure or at least something comparable to the Xone launch.

Good point: for its own good this time Ninty will better have devised a concept easier to grasp and more appealing to a wider range of users than Wii U, otherwise March 2017 would be a totally wrong month to launch it, it'd have been better May or June to have more time to prepare it, as killing Xmas 2016 profits advertising the not yet available product before it is an option that would burn too much money, and even more painful considering the rest of this year has been quite meh up until now. Well, about this we can only wait and see.



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