Herb Alpert
Banned
Hopefully soon so we can stop the endless topics about it on gaf.
This
Hopefully soon so we can stop the endless topics about it on gaf.
If it's not shown by September it's not coming out in March.
It's not lying if they really planned for it to be March and it slipped. Happens all the time.
After it's released.
Sept 7, 8, 13, or 14.
One of those four dates.
As I've mentioned before:
- July is out. Game journalists need to make arrangements and stuff would have leaked out. Might as well have revealed it at E3 if you were going to be ready in August.
- Most of August is out because of the Olympics which are going to suck up all the news cycle oxygen.
- Nintendo doesn't reveal big stuff on Mondays or Fridays, it's always Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday.
- They'll need to ship dev kits out and allow people who aren't "trusted partners" to order kits, which probably needs to happen by September. You want multi-plats in force by Fall 2017. Obviously they're going to reveal it before dev kits go out and everything leaks out.
- It would be beneficial for Japanese third parties to be able to announce games coming to NX at Tokyo Game Show.
- They're definitely going to reveal it before the Holidays... otherwise you're asking people to buy a PS4/XB1.
As for the NX, manufacturing is being prepped. Were considering how much to automate
Hopefully soon so we can stop the endless topics about it on gaf.
Are you kidding? Once the thing is actually announced there's going to be even more.
At least they'd have more substance. We'd be talking about/discussing/reacting to actual concrete news.
If they have something rather unique, I sort of expect Nintendo to do a very rare TGS showcase (the only time that they did this was to show off the Wii Remote). By then... there should be a clear picture of the marketing focus of the device(s), at least internally.
It would also be rather telling, since it would mean that time to explain the device would be necessary. Which is something that Nintendo failed to do in the Wii U's lifespan.
Obviously they're going to reveal it before dev kits go out and everything leaks out.
It'll release when it's too late, interest is ebbing, and NOJ has determined the hardware is just far enough away from what anyone would want.
It'll be some adorably underpowered box that puts out a reliable 720p except for first party titles. This is what happens when you have just enough magical hubris to keep you from reading the market.
SCENE: A rally on Election Day. Donald Trump has just won the presidency. He appears before an adoring audience of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis, ready to make his speech. Then, all of the sudden, he sheds his skin like a molting snake... revealing himself to be Reggie!
"I wasn't serious about the wall or hating minorities or anything," Reggie says. "I just wanted to have your attention so I could reveal Nintendo's hot new system."
On live TV, incoming president Reggie showcases the NX a telekinetically controlled sphere of energy that exists simultaneously in the past and the future. The audience ooos and aahs.
"I think... I think I feel love in my heart," says one audience member. "It feels weird."
September.