XandBosch

Honestly it just needs to rip off the Vita (in look) and be sleek, small, and powerful.

@CreamyDream Get a PS4. Nintendo is all about those gimmicks, has been for over a decade now.

This was like the ONE game that I set my eyes on back when it first appeared in an indie reel on one of the Directs. Ha. Yeah it WOULD be the game that faces tons of issues and takes forever to come out..

@CB85 An incredibly apt question. I never played TTYD (I know), but Paper Mario 64 was an amazing game and still holds that special place to this day. Paper Mario has just been getting worse and worse ever since. It should never have been a franchise for Nintendo to experiment with, because it was already so great at what it did and it had enough depth to keep it going.

"Apart from in a few exceptional cases - because I'm a sucker."

-and this is exactly why Nintendo does and is still able to have business practices like this. Because we all still buy them.

@NewAdvent It's true. Nintendo could either knock it out of the park with some awesome new concept, or just sort of peter out if it's something like the PS4 but just not as good.

There are so many people who say "just release a PS4-like console and everyone would be happy" - but I don't think that's at all true. The people who say that are already happy with their systems, because they're more adult and yadda yadda.

Nintendo's place to be is releasing something different that occupies a different space.

@NewAdvent Good point, but at the same time that's part of the reason why these companies (mainly Playstation) aren't going "all in" on VR. They're dipping their feet. VR might come out this Fall, but so is Horizon, a huge first-party game that doesn't look like it will have VR support (or need it if it does have it). So even if VR comes out and people say "no", there are still options from the other companies.

I think the "right time" all depends on what the product is. If it's something that's going to try and compete with what's already out there, then yeah, releasing the same year as Playstation VR and a year when presumably a lot of first party stuff will finally be coming out on those systems might be a bad idea.

But if it's something completely different, it may not matter when they release it. I'm truly hoping the product is something that we don't know we need until we see it.

In the end, I don't know much about economics and financials, but in the gaming industry I don't know if there's ever a "right time" to release new hardware. Some might argue that Nintendo screwed themselves with the Wii U's launch in terms of their timing (releasing mid-generation in comparison with the others), but again it all comes back to what the NX is. If it's a handheld, that doesn't matter. If it's a new console with a much smaller target audience (Nintendo fans), it doesn't matter. If it's meant to be a "PS4 killer", it totally matters.

I'm hoping it's NONE of those things and it's something we don't even realize could exist yet. The theories of an app that runs on different devices certainly has my ears perked up though.

Didn't they say the same thing about the GBA just before the DS launched?