lasershow said: People keep freaking out that more time is needed. One of the many things Nintendo has said that lead to the Wii U's failure was revealing it too early. In today's instant social media news cycle do you really need more than 2-3 months to reveal a console? Maybe, but I'm sure 4-6 months is more than enough time. |
But you and I know that is not why it was a failure.
It failed to sell well because it launched too late in the gen, and was barely on pair with the past gen consoles from competition.
Then the competition launched newer consoles that made the Wii U look very old.
Ontop of that its way to expensive even now, for what it is, compaired to the competition, because of the gamepad controller, and hardware component choices.
It lacks 3rd party which is a big deal to many gamers.
and reguardless of what Nintendo is saying, you need to time to market products, if you want to see effects from marketing.
5months is cutting it short, in many peoples opinion, so if NX fails, next console nintendo will say "we didnt market NX early enough".
We re down to 5months now btw.
Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb and then it launches early March.
I hope Nintendo reveals it soon.
Doing it in nov or dec, they risk it getting drowned out by noise the others make. They need the time too, and Im tired of waiting on info on the NX.