NX will launch in March 2017 globally, won't be at E3 (focusing on Zelda instead)

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snowblind said:
Why the hell are they even building another console anyway? Handhelds i get... but another console is the last thing the market needs (or really cares about in regards to Nintendo).
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I totally agree, I wish Nintendo would go 3rd party with consoles and just keep doing portables with the DS.

They make good games, but nobody besides a die hard Nintendo fan wants to put in hundreds of dollars for a Nintendo console.
 
Wait, ZELDA'S DELAYED TOO!?!

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nikatapi said:
Since it's 2017, i'm hoping for a more powerful design. Being out later than PS4K (probably) and weaker could be very damaging i think.
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You don't just randomly drop in and out of parts when your designing a machine. Even with "minimal" R&D- you are looking at a multi-hundred million dollar investment that stays static. There is no arms race for specs because the options given to Sony and MS - are also with Nintendo. At the end of the day it's whatever Nintendo prioritizes- performance/watt, profit margins, or eccentric control mechanisms.
 
Now if they will announce that they're porting Super Smash Bros for Wii U over to NX day 1 and I'll trade in my Wii U right away.
 
Hmm. This tells me that either they don't want to fuck up the NX launch/launch window that they're willing to delay the system, or that the R&D is seriously fucked. I'm leaning towards the latter considering that there won't be any NX news at E3. There isn't really much to look forward to. Shame really. And a reveal event at the end of the year? I don't know what to expect anymore.
 
I really wonder if the PS4K and rumored Xbox upgrade threw a last-minute monkey wrench into their plans.

I mean, it had to, right? Unless the NX development really isn't coming along as they'd hoped.

Still, no doubt, very disappointing. We didn't even get WarioWare for mobile! ;-)
 
This news is essentially Nintendo saying: "Well, go ahead, spend your money and invest in another console ecosystem, we're not doing anything for a couple years."
 
Hoo-doo said:
It just doesn't make sense to announce/launch a new flagship console in that time of the year. That's exactly why many people thought it was absolutely going to launch in 2016.
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It doesn't? Why? At least in Europe, GameCube, XBox 1, N64, SNES were for example released around that time, heck, the PS2 was released in March in Japan.
The early adopters will get the system in March just as they would in holiday season, being a new device, it might also sell out on that premise alone.
 
Hoo-doo said:
Why set yourself up for disappointment like that. Nintendo has nothing to gain by building a powerhouse of a console. You know this.
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I know, and I don't care. If Nintendo is going to act so stupidly, I'm not gonna baby them by having lower expectations for them than everyone else. If they put out something disappointing, then being disappointed is justified.
 
Meh, I've waited five years for Zelda. What's another year?

Lol at it being the only playable game at E3. Continue becoming more irrelevant, E3. I can't wait for the day when that thing disappears.
 
Zombie James said:
Third party support? The baseline is Xbone anyways, but by the time NX launches it'll be nearly 3.5 years old. I don't see how being behind technologically on purpose benefits Nintendo in any way. They can't keep repeating the same mistakes.
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Third parties don't all scurry away simply because of power concerns. That's very far down on the long, long list of reasons why developers are dropping the platform.

If Nintendo thinks third parties will all come flocking back when they decides to include meaty hardware, they are in for a rude awakening.
 
Boogdud said:
This news is essentially Nintendo saying: "Well, go ahead, spend your money and invest in another console ecosystem, we're not doing anything for a couple years."
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So true.

It's like Nintendo is just taking a break. Maybe it will be worth it when NX launches but it's crazy to me.
 
I'm looking forward to the investors briefing, I'm sure a lot of them will be disappointed with the news too, hopefully they're able to get a bit more information out of Nintendo like "when can we expect to start hearing about what NX is?" and get an answer other than "later in 2016"
 
Well, this is a really bad idea. Can't believe they're skipping E3 and the holiday season too. I don't know what to say, really. Pretty disappointing.
 
rrc1594 said:
That explains why MS isn't in a rush to put on a new system this Holiday.
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Yea I'm sure they knew what was going on at Nintendo headquarters.

This news just proves a lot of people straight talk out of their ass. Everytime a "should I get a Wii U" thread cropped a bunch of detractors would advise to wait on the NX. Smh still a lot fun to be had with Wii U.
 
All I'm interested in right now is what this news will do for Sony's Neo plans.

Will they wait for NX launch or are they going for this year's holliday season?
 
Father_Brain said:
If they're not ready to reveal NX this E3, they have no business launching it this fiscal year. I smell a redux of the half-baked 3DS launch coming... and even that platform had a good E3 2010 showing.
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This is what I'm thinking. E3 is only nine months before NX is set to launch. Some major red flags are going up in my mind.
 
This makes no sense to me ... We're going to spend the time promoting the new game coming out on the new system we won't talk about.
 
I'm still trying to come up with a reasonable explanation and I still got nothing. This isn't incompetence it's something completely different something deeper and altogether stranger.

There has to be a rational explanation like something crazy going on behind the scenes.
 
Hoo-doo said:
Third parties don't all scurry away simply because of power concerns. That's very far down on the long, long list of reasons why developers are dropping the platform.

If Nintendo thinks third parties will all come flocking back when they decides to include meaty hardware, they are in for a rude awakening.
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I agree. That's a lot of lost time, resources and money. Especially when the they could invest that into the current systems with already bigger install bases. My fear is that it ends up as a wii U 2.0 instead
 
Markoman said:
All I'm interested in right now is what this news will do for Sony's Neo plans.

Will they wait for NX launch or are they going for this year's holliday season?
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If games require day 1 support from October it's a good guess it's coming this year. Unless they choose now to delay.
 
They're going to miss holiday sales, they're going to miss those sales for Zelda, and they're not even gonna talk about their new console until the end of the year? After PS4K is already out again?

gg Nintendo. Have fun trying to find revenue this calendar year.
 
So what else is there this year besides Pokemon Sun/Moon, Paper Mario: Color Splash, FExSMT and Metroid: Federation Force from Nintendo as a whole? Even during the Wii's droughts and final year, we had DS and 3DS games to look forward to.

2016 is probably the worst year from Nintendo ever at this rate.

Best wishes.
 
Ninjimbo said:
Meh, I've waited five years for Zelda. What's another year?

Lol at it being the only playable game at E3. Continue becoming more irrelevant, E3. I can't wait for the day when that thing disappears.
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Yep, it will be great when we don't have a whole week in the dead summer to celebrate and see exciting new games and hardware. Can't wait for that myself. I'll agree with others as well that this is much more a sign of Nintendo's incompetence than E3's relevance.
 
Briarios said:
This makes no sense to me ... We're going to spend the time promoting the new game coming out on the new system we won't talk about.
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Indeed, the only explanation I can think that makes sense is that they just can't show off NX right now, because they haven't decided on final form factors and it just isn't ready yet, which doesn't inspire much confidence in a March 2017 release.

Promoting a early-mid 2017 title but not promoting an early 2017 hardware release at THE biggest gaming event of the year makes little to no sense.
 
Dagobert Duck said:
With everybody and there grandmothers having seperate meetings E3 isnt as important as it used to be...
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Nintendo hides behind directs because they want to perfectly tune their PR message because frankly their marketing strategies have become atrocious.

The other companies have less to be ashamed of in front of a journalist mic.
 
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