Topic: Will you buy an NX at launch?

@OneBagTravel: New concept = colored buttons

This is relevant:

@iKhan: My biggest issue with that video is that using that logic you shouldn't buy a console until it has been discontinued. That is when it will be the cheapest and have the most games for it.

I don't get to play games as often as I use to so buying at launch and keeping up to date on releases is actually how I am able to play the games as much as I can. I wouldn't have been able to put in as much time into ZombiU if I had gotten it a year later.

I was more posting it for comedic purposes. The video wasn't even relevant to Nintendo until the Wii U. They have always done really well at console launches.

Well I'll give you credit. I found it very funny and entertaining.

5 of the last 6 Nintendo consoles or handhelds I've purchased at launch - GBA, GCN, DS, Wii, and Wii U. The 3DS had nothing compelling until Ocarina of Time 3D came out. But about the NX...I highly, highly doubt I would buy one at launch. It depends on many things: the launch games, the price of the system, what the system is capable of, and what the system offers at launch. Right now I'm not expecting to be impressed, so I probably won't.

No, I will get as much use out of the Wii u before I get the new one.

Whether I get the NX at launch will depend on 1) what it is, and 2) when it launches. In this case, let's assume it's the next Nintendo console, the Wii U successor. The earliest I would get the NX then, is Autumn/Winter 2017. If for whatever reason the NX launches earlier than that, be it in 2016 or Spring 2017, then I will not be getting it at launch, and shall continue to wait until late 2017 to purchase the system.

I'll be giving the Wii U my primary attention for the usual 5 years regardless of when Nintendo releases their console successor and regardless of what it comes with in terms of content and features.

@Souldin: That's a good point. If they release it as early as Fall 2016, I probably won't get it right away. Unless they decide to make Zelda U an NX exclusive launch title, in which case I will simultaneously curse Nintendo whilst forking over my money.

depending on how much launch content it has. i am still thoroughly defending the wii u with my life so i likely will not unless for the holiday season.

Probably not, but only because I will still be plugging away at MH3U, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Zelda U at that point. Plus, I will be looking to pick up second tier (at least to me) titles like Star Fox, Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Wooly World. and a few others at a reduced price.

That said, what will tempt me is if they come out swinging with a new Metroid Prime, Dragon Quest, Zelda and some solid third party stuff at launch.

I'll ask the thread starter: what is the NX?

Let me quote the thread starter:

The NX is the code name for the eventual successor to the Wii U, though little is known about it at this point. All we really know from Nintendo is that details will be released at E3 2016, though there are a few rumors going around, such as how Nintendo doesn't plan on making it very powerful, and surrounding patent filings of a console without a CD drive, and an achievements system. All taken with a grain of salt, of course.

At this stage it is whatever your imagination wants it to be

Technically all we know is that it's hardware and that they're going to talk about it in 2016. The assumption that it's a home console is just that, an assumption. It may be a decent assumption but that's all it is. The patents are also pretty thin places for information. For example the achievements one quite literally has the layout of from NES remix. The one about optical media spends the whole time talking about processes and makes a point of saying that the patent would also apply to a console WITH an optical drive.

So really we don't know much at all.

Nintendo NX:
The NeXt way to play!
is this a good slogan?...
or what about...
The NeXt step in entertainment!

Although we don't know much about NX yet, I will certainly buy it at launch. That is, if I can afford it. ^^

I usually don't buy anything at launch, because if you wait, you get a technically mature product and it's also cheaper. But there are exeptions. Either
a) it's something that perfectly fits into my needs at that exact point in time (like a new kind of device that is helpful in daily life or in one case of a game: the Crew) or
b) it's something that I can trust on to be good (like a Nintendo console) or
c) it's something I want so bad that I break my own rule on not being an early adopter.

But c) almost never happens. So I would buy the NX immediately because of reason b). Also, I bought the Wii U in May 2014 and I totally regret that I didn't buy it sooner. It's such a great console! I'm actually thinking about keeping it. It would be the first time that I don't sell a console after it is getting surpassed by his successor.
In mid 2013, I sold my Wii in anticipation of the Wii U (and to get a decent selling price) but then had to wait because of financial reasons. I won't do that again, I want to have the NX on day one.

I'd probably guy at launch if it ends up being a standalone gamepad or microconsole that plays all your Wii U and 3ds games

Honestly, from Nintendo's point of view the console that needs replacement soon would be the Wii U as the 3DS still sells in decent numbers and the Wii U arguably never did.

From my personal point of view as a gamer, I feel the Wii U is perfectly capable of playing whatever games Nintendo wants to do next. It's the 3DS that shows it's advanced age at this time. It's a 240p handheld with graphics comparable to the GameCube in a world of 1080p and beyond smart devices. The "New" hardware revision should have been more bold. It feels like it was only made to accommodate Xenoblade 3D. I don't judge a game by its graphics solely, but most 3DS games look bad nowadays, while the Wii U can still manage to have some gorgeous looking ones.

I'm still betting the NX will be the Wii U successor because money talks louder. But I wouldn't dismiss a new handheld.