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Pachter predicts NX won't release in 2016
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Yup, nothing to add much here
Monty Mole
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Wildly successful console gen? Have you seen the total hardware and software sales? PS4 is doing well, but it's doing well on its own.
Regardless, NX is going to have to appeal to a much larger audience beyond the typical Nintendo fans (we've seen Wii U and GC hardware numbers), and that will be their challenge. Even kids all have tablets these days, so they can't even focus on that market. Sony did the right thing focusing on people who actually just want to play games, with no nonsense. I'm not sure there's room for much else without competing with smartphones and tablets, a war that Nintendo is never going to win.
Assuming NX is like iOS where you get faster iterations on a singular hardware line, Nintendo could theoretically release NX2 right before a PS5/XB2 with similar specs as a counter strike.
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Serious question- do you honestly think that the year of release is the only thing keeping third party titles off the NX?
They could release NX tomorrow or they could release it in 20 years time, and unless serious moves that we aren't privy to have been going on behind the scenes it won't make a damned bit of difference to the big Western third parties.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I thought first quarter of 2017 myself.
KratosEnergyDrink
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TheGreatMightyPoo
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Not really.
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I'd argue that there is. Between the promise of "Nintendo-like" profits next year, the timescales that Nintendo's big developers have been working on, the state of the hardware business over the last year, the timescales for the dev kits, the purported timescales of production we've heard about... I'd certainly argue that the intention was to launch next holiday, whether Nintendo actually manage it or not.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Yeah, forgot about the development-kit thing. Seems like a rumor but the way people are reacting, a credible one.
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It was reported by the Wall Street Journal. It isn't a rumour.
MisterR
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It will release in 2016. Not even Nintendo is dumb enough to let the Wii U flounder around for two more years. They'll follow the PS4, Xbone blueprint and have an event in Jan/Feb and then a big blow out at E3. It will launch with some first party stuff, a bunch of indy ports and a scant few 3rd party ports. I'm thinking like Just Dance kind of stuff.
It's likely getting replaced as well.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I swear the thread had "rumor" inthe title but maybe that's a formality because Nintendo didn't announce it officially. Either way, I always took it as true. I think it could launch at the end of next year but I hope they really have all their ducks in the pond this time around. Most launches suck but this is probably their most imortant one ever.
MisterR
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Exactly. This is actually one of the big mistakes they made with the Wii U. They let the Wii languish and lose all momentum and tried to capitalize on it's name, long after people had put their Wiis in a closet.
Tatsumi Oga
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Well to be fair Nintendo only said they will talk about this NX thing in 2016, nothing about a release date or whatsoever. It would make a lot of sense to release next year though, because except for Star Fox and Zelda, there's not much big stuff announced for Wii U.
I sure hope NX releases in 2016, if only to wash away all the speculation threads and unrealistic expectations sooner rather than later. And I hope they'll start talking about it in March alongside the release of Nintendo Account/My Nintendo/Miitomo, and don't wait until E3. Discuss concept, hardware, OS and infrastructure in March; announce games at E3, release in November.
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If it is coming out next financial year, we'll probably have heard some specifics about it by the end of March. A new console is going to have an impact on the financials, and investors have to be informed.
I could see Nintendo going the Sony route and having a big event to show it off in February or March.
A hybrid in what sense? Define hybrid in this context.
TheSlySoul
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Pretty much, I always bet the opposite of his predictions.
Still in denial, I see.
Have the rumors changed? They were never substantiated to begin with, but I thought the general consensus was that it is still probably a hybrid.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Typo probably, he meant highbird.
TheSlySoul
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It is probably not a hybrid.
More than likely the gamepad will be portable and you can get a SKU with or without the gamepad. That is my guess. It is all speculation on how they will do portability. Iwata said no hybrid though.
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Iwata outright said it's not I believe
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Someone needs to bring up the quote because so often people mistranslate or misrepresent what was said.
It's not a hybrid device. It's a hybrid platform. Like iOS. Spans multiple device form factors.
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"Pachter predicts NX won't release in 2016"
He also predict that it will come out in 2016.
He also predict that it will come out in 2016.
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It probably isn't, though. It's most likely going to be two or more separate pieces of hardware with different specs and functionality, mostly sharing a common range of software.
Iwata shot down the classical idea of the hybrid with the handheld just being part of the console years ago.
SuperLeviathan
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Holiday 2017 would put the NX a year ahead of when Sony and Microsoft would be due for THEIR five-year refreshes. It'd be in the same position the Wii U was with nothing to show for it.
Also, if Nintendo shows off the NX next year, but doesn't release it, do you think people will be in a hurry to buy a console that will be replaced in a year? The Wii U would have its worst holiday ever.
Yeah, 2016 only makes too much sense.
Also, if Nintendo shows off the NX next year, but doesn't release it, do you think people will be in a hurry to buy a console that will be replaced in a year? The Wii U would have its worst holiday ever.
Yeah, 2016 only makes too much sense.
CaviarMeths
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Iwata said it wasn't a hybrid, then the rumour spread that it was a hybrid anyway, then Iwata had to repeat a couple more times that it wasn't a hybrid.
People just really, really want it to be a hybrid.
As if Nintendo is actually going to plan a launch window around annual AAA Guns n' Sports.
People just really, really want it to be a hybrid.
As if Nintendo is actually going to plan a launch window around annual AAA Guns n' Sports.