Nuvendil said:
I have no doubt about their plans for 2017, I've been saying that. Just pointed that out in this thread, that the short window gives them a chance to keep hype at a fever pitch. But there's no dobut in my mind whatsoever that the Pro and Scorpio has entered their thought processes. For one, if their early add is anything to go buy, they are targeting your general gaming audience, not the "non-gamers" or "casuals." So they are going to have more audience overlap with Sony and Playstation than with the Wii. Now their targettting of that audience is indirect via refocusing on convenience rather than raw brute force, but the reality is consumers have only so much money. So I have no doubt Nintendo has considered the fact they want to time the release to avoid being overshadowed by the PS4 and get a jump on the Scorpio since there's only so much spending the general consumer base for dedicated hardware will be doing in 2017. This next event is their blowout. The trailer was just about reserving some mind share so that people have it in their mind that "hey, that looks cool" so that the main event gets maximum attention. The main event will be about fighting for dominant mindshare. make no mistake, Nintendo doesn't want to have that ammo wasted in, say, November since it would all be fighting with PS4 et al's holiday hype machine. I don't think that's their main reasoning for the timing - I elaborated on that here and elsewhere - but it would be foolish to think it's not a part of their logic.
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I genuinely don't think that whatever they have planned would be even remotely overshadowed by hardware revisions of pre-existing hardware, and I don't think that they think that it would be, so I don't think they were concerned about them at all. An event like whats happening in January where they detail brand new hardware and reveal a bunch of exclusive games E3-style during arguably the deadest Holiday season this generation would overshadow the other two systems if it were hosted this holiday, not the other way around.
I think that the timing of the Switch reveal was calculated, and not revealing anymore is afterwards is just as calculated. They did so much with so little, and I think the reception of the PS4 Pro specifically has been extremely and unquestionably mixed by comparison. Like I don't think for a second that, if the PS4 Pro was launching in January or something, that Nintendo would have even considered moving their press event out of fear of being overshadowed. I do think they are competing for a similar audience, but I think Nintendo are confident that they can compete. Their silence is a sign of that. It's confidence.
Didn't have a conference at E3. People shitted on them for doing that. They showed only one game. It dominated E3 anyway. Happens to be the first officially confirmed Switch title. They stay quiet for months. People get nervous. They announce a 3 minute reveal teaser a mere 12 hours before it goes live. Get's like 23m views with a 95% approval ratio in less than a week. They say the same day that they won't say anything else about the thing until 2017. What Nintendo has been displaying over the last few months is unadulterated swagger. I don't know if the Switch will be a success, but it is clear as day that Nintendo thinks that it will be.
