I am not who you're referring to, but personally I am a generally pessimistic person and I am against overt praise for any of the big companies. I usually don't get involved as I don't want to get banned because if I didn't I would probably counter everyone that is too defensive of their company of choice.

It would minimize negative press because there wouldn't be time for anti hype like there was with Xbox One. Its also why they didn't show Ps4 Pro until after E3. If it was shown along with Scorpio it would have been destroyed by anti hype. Same situation here.

It would minimize negative press because there wouldn't be time for anti hype like there was with Xbox One. Its also why they didn't show Ps4 Pro until after E3. If it was shown along with Scorpio it would have been destroyed by anti hype. Same situation here.

This is a good point.  Imagine, if you will, if MS had launched the Xbox One two months after their disastrous unveiling.  Even if they had reversed their bad policies and the Xbone launched exactly as it later did, the launch would have been an absolute bloodbath vs the PS4 cause people would still be livid, they would have next to no time to spin anything, and no time to repair their brand or do damage control.  It would have been worse, not better.  Cause bad news spreads like wildfire and anger lingers short term and only really cools with time.  Announcing a good ways ahead of time is better for controlling negativity since you have a long while to spin and do damage control. 

I was not talking about you.

Well it wasn't much info, let's be fair.  Even though it did accomplish getting quite a good reception and has reserved Nintendo a bit of mindshare ahead of the main event. 

And even though I don't agree with the idea they are doing this to minimize negativity (as I just said, this is a bad plan for that), I won't defend the short span completely.  Yes it has advantages - namely that they can keep the hype at a fever pitch from announcement to launch if they play it right - but there are plenty of past precedents to show properly handled early announcements are very succesful, just look at the PS4 and Nintendo's own Wii.

My guess is this is more down to the games lineup situation, namely third and second parties.  With the Wii U, Nintendo went out on a limb in 2011 and early 2012, boasting of partnerships they actually didn't have locked down at all based on what we now know (evidence now suggests early 2011 was when they *started* negotiating those partnerships, which is mental).  And then that all backfired, perhaps the EA and Nintendo "unprecedented partnership" being the most famous implosion.  So I think it is entirely possible Nintendo wanted to make dead certain that they had these 3rd and 2nd parties as locked in as possible, not to mention having actual games from them to show running on the actual end product with actual release dates.  Wouldn't be the first time Nintendo over-compensated :P