I think there's a large difference between revealing 17 months beforehand and 5 months beforehand.
I really hope their lineup is going to be very robust. The only notable game the Wii U had at launch were like New Super Mario Bros U which was essentially the other NSMB games on the Wii U, Bayonetta, and some Batman game. People had to wait really long to get all the key titles in 2013 and 2014 which really damaged the Wii U in addition to the naming confusion.
NX needs a solid lineup for the Spring, Summer, and Holiday seasons respectively to keep the platform afloat.
Well, admittedly neither of them are exclusive but Zelda at launch and Sonic at Holiday don't HURT.
I've been having this gut feeling for a super long time that the Wii U game drought is because they've been moving everything they've got to the NX. It's just a feeling, but that void combined with all the talk of Nintendo unifying their game flow and saying how games are their focus. . .it's mighty fishy to me, and in a good way. The way they've been talking about focusing mostly on games that sell above 2 million copies is fishy in a definitely not so good way considering a lot of games I like sell below that threshold, but it does hint that they're planning on getting out heavy hitters at least.
And then they talk about their Animal Crossing app working with consoles and don't say with what game specifically. Said app delayed to right around the time the NX launches.
And while this is dipping well into speculation at this point, there's the fact that Mario Kart games tend to be released every three years and the last one came out in 2014. . .
Oh yeah probably lol.
Just goes to show how memorable Wii U's launch lineup was.
Yeah, the Wii U's launch was. . .sad.
I mistakenly thought Hyrule Warriors was part of the launch lineup one time myself because it was so unmemorable.
I mean, there was Nintendo Land, Pikmin 3, ZombiU, some LEGO game. . .I almost want to say Wonderful 101 but I might have mistaken that one for a launch title when it wasn't, too.
Porting Breath of the Wild alone gives the NX a better looking starting lineup than the Wii U had and it's not even solely an NX game.