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After the Wii U floundered, Nintendo released the Switch mid-generation, which is generally not the right time to release a new console ID tire assuming for success. But we saw how it turned out.

Indeed some rushes to market have ended up successful - Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder documents in detail one such case and there are many more. It's easy to dwell on the failures however. I think it's fair to say that many products that are on the market are rushed to market - some very successfully.

Javascript was famously rushed out in ten days, and ended up eating the world.