Nintendo: We Will Announce Nintendo NX Later This Year

Analysts expect Miitomo, developed in partnership with mobile-game platform operator DeNA Inc., to contribute little to earnings. It will be free to download and built around communications features, meaning users won’t spend a lot for add-on items in a race for high scores.

Analysts have been watching for indications of how Nintendo’s mobile game will interact with a next-generation system that Nintendo has under development, code-named NX.

Mr. Kimishima said Tuesday that the company will provide an update “not too late in the course of this year.”

Analysts expect Nintendo NX to be unveiled in spring, with a possible release in October or November.

“Nintendo’s NX and smartphone games will be a test case for the videogame industry’s trend of trying to merge smart-device games and console-based games,” said Junko Yamamura, an analyst at Nomura Securities.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo...ter-1454397802

So... E3?

Why the **** would you wait till E3? Nintendo, what are you doing?

I don't understand, what's so bad about waiting till E3?

Nice, im interested to see what kind of shitty design the new system will have this time

RIP Nintendo

E3 to October or November is, what, four or five months?

Plus at E3, they have to contend with all the other news that comes out of the conferences, as opposed to holding one of their own, revealing the NX there, getting all the headlines to themselves, and detailing NX further at E3 (like Microsoft and Sony did with Xbox One and PS4)

Oh, you know, the same designs that will inform what Sony will do with their future consoles.

E3 reveal,Christmas launch.

I think there will be a special event,with E3 highlighting the games.

Exactly what I was thinking...

Nintendo isn't allowing enough time to build hype. If Nintendo is smart they'd do something simple like announce it and show a finalized design for the system. Or even something simple like the controller like Sony did with PS4. The instant its announced, all hell breaks loose. Nintendo would be smart to drop the bomb as soon as possible.

D.O.A.

Comment only based on very limited info.

At least it means they'll actually show up this time, no?

Waiting provides them with an opportunity to hijack the event and commandeer the publicity their competitors would garner.

Well they could hold a Nintendo Direct during E3 week and announce it that way. I honestly think that's smart. Sony and Microsoft did their own thing for their console announcements this time around.

They should hold a Nintendo Direct in March, followed up by a full reveal at E3.

They plan on releasing it in fall, that's cutting it pretty close. They must know something we don't know being this confidant.

I hope Nintendo knows what they're doing.

IMO, the best thing for them to have done is:

• Feb/March: Hold final Wii U/3DS focused Direct.
• April/May: Revealed the NX at their own mini press event. Talk about the system and maybe announce one or two games
• E3: The big NX games blow-out. Show off launch titles as well as 2017 games and beyond. Let people know that this system won't be getting the long droughts that plagued the launch of both 3DS and Wii U.

And I mean, it is still possible that this will happen. They said "later this year", not "At E3". We just have to trust in Nintendo. Plus, I mean the quick announcement into launch worked for Bethesda with Fallout 4, so who really knows, release while the hype levels are still at critical.

Also, let's just hope that if they don't follow that, and they give it to us all at E3, they 1) make it a press event, instead of Direct, and 2) make it longer than half an hour.

Or they're just remarkably stupid.

It's Nintendo, so I'll go with the second option.

It's Nintendo, so it's more than likely both.

“Nintendo’s NX and smartphone games will be a test case for the videogame industry’s trend of trying to merge smart-device games and console-based games,” said Junko Yamamura, an analyst at Nomura Securities.

This sound difficult to me. Very different the games you want when you hvae 10 min on the bus or when you can sit down on your couch for 2h. Worried the console games will feel watered down.

Are they going to pull a fallout 4 and announce that its coming out in a few months to create a hype train?

@Sushiglutton: They aren't porting games, they are making unique games for each platform that will interact.

Like, say, Smash 3DS and Smash Wii U. Or Pokemon Red and Pokemon Stadium.

Ah ok. Hmm still not something I'm excited about. I just wanna sit down and enjoy my game. I suppose I'm a relic lol. But I guess it doesn't have to be that big of a deal if done with care.

They've been very successful company since the late 1800's. I wouldn't exactly call them stupid.

They're successful in spite of their stupidity.

I'd say they're more stubborn than stupid.

@bunchanumbers: Exactly. If Nintendo want the NX to build hype, they need to announce it soon and then do a full reveal maybe at E3, and then launch it later in the year.

If they're planning a launch for later this year, an E3 launch really doesn't make too much sense.

Wouldn't you say that continuing to be stubborn when their stubbornness has landed them in trouble before is the biggest proof of their stupidity? :p

E3 has always been the fundamental for gaming industries and it's always part of the big 3's most event when announcing there new consoles, games, ect. so I don't see what's the big issue not wanting Nintendo announcing NX at E3 2016. Seriously if you guys want them to release NX this year, there's nothing wrong waiting till next year when they are fully ready. Getting mad at Nintendo announcing NX at E3 is so fuc***g stupid.

@charizard1605: Not at all. They've been very successful on their business model.

@davillain-: But they insist they're launching it this year. Waiting till E3 if they are is a terrible move.

@charizard1605: amen

@charizard1605: Maybe, we'll see.

@davillain-: If they want to launch this year and still decide to wait a year, it's cutting it too close. It's not going to work like it did for a game like FO4. This is a console, which means more money spent, which means people need more time to think.

I would hope they did the reveal before E3, so during E3 they can show off the games that'll come at launch.

I'm sure Nintendo is well prepare though. It work for both Sony/MS console launch back in 2013, so I'm sure it'll be alright waiting till June. Also remember that Nintendo do there own E3 digital event now, so that also helps out and there interpreters for communications as well. Digital event for NX only is the way too go since Wii U only has like what Legend of Zelda Wii U and Star Fox?

Now that I think about it, I think it would be smart for Nintendo to do there Nintendo event just on there Wii U/3DS focus games and just NX full details at E3 2016.

Microsoft and Sony had earlier events before E3 where they revealed the PS4 and Xbox One- that's what I want Nintendo to do, and what they are not, seemingly, doing.

Mace Windu senses a smear campaign against Nintendo from Charizard.

@charizard1605: Oh I see where this is going, makes sense. For some reason, I thought we were getting one of those Nintendo events this year?

Why is it so bad to wait until E3 strategically? I can't wait for the reveal though.

What's the point of announcing it when everyone knows about it already.

I'm in the camp that thinks they should do a well advertised reveal of the system before E3 so that they aren't competing for attention. BTW, what the heck is their God tier studio Retro Studios up to? If they launch a game with this system I'll be pretty extatic.

@fierro316: Because Nintendo is planning to launch the system later in the year. Announcing it at E3 makes no sense because it's a time crunch, doesn't give the system much time to generate hype or marketing.

@Pikminmaniac: Hopefully Metroid :D

@khoofia_pika: oh god yes. I've been replaying Corruption and my god, Retro is untouchable. I don't remember it being so darn good. I'll probably replay prime and echoes right after it.

I'll go out on a limb and say that this should play pretty well for Nintendo. Sony is, in 99% probability, going to be full-tilt on VR at E3 this year. I mean, there will for sure be some 3rd party exclusives announced as well as a few first-party exclusives, but Sony would be utterly foolish not to lean on PSVR at this year's E3. That, will in turn, leave an opening for a traditional gaming console with a fresh lineup of exclusives to have as much spotlight as it's going to possibly get for the next 3-4 years.

Some of you may see it as crazy, but it's actually very opportune for Nintendo to reveal the NX at E3 this year. While the crowd that does not care at all about VR will be their maximum loudest (before being summarily shut the effed up by actual popular appeal) Nintendo will have free roam over the clamor to woo gamers with a new lineup and whatever else is up their sleeve with this new platform. It's really quite genius on their part.

@Pikminmaniac: All three Prime games are- collectively, at least- top notch. Corruption slags a little bit in quality, but the dip is only noticeable because of the unbelievable quality of Prime and Echoes. On its own, Corruption is undeniable awesomeness.

Metroid almost NEEDS Retro at this point, because those guys have the perfect vision for the series.

@charizard1605: Perhaps they missed the most important lesson (one Sony learned mid-way through the PS3 gen): get a good marketing team. The recovery of the PS3 and (especially) the launch of the PS4 owe much of their success to that.

Still hyped, but kinda silly for Ninty to follow a traditional unveil. A solo event (and no, not just a ND, a proper showing like Sony and MS did) if done well, does wonders.

@Desmonic: It could even be a Nintendo Direct- just anything where they can command attention uncontested.

I'd rather see Retro work on a new IP or atleast work on a different franchise from Metroid/DK/Mario Kart...

I think it'd be wise to announe the NX in a direct before E3, and then go into more detail about it and some launch games at E3, but regardless of what they do, I'm very interested to find out what the hell the NX is already.

@DJ-Lafleur: Metroid is floundering without Retro. It isn't as much for Retro as it is for the series that we want them to work on a new Metroid. As I said before, their vision for the series is perfect.

None of that pertains to the announcement or unveiling of the NX and theres no mention of E3.