re: NX to be announced before E3?

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This is as much of a fanboy thing as I have ever read.

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Admitting that Nintendo hasn't been the absolute best at pushing hardware is fanboy....ok.

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That absolutely is what they used to do, along with everyone else. I mean they even named one of their systems 64. To show how their system was 64 bits. Double what the playstation had.
The importance of bits is another discussion but that right there is showing how they were bragging about their power.

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Obviously their plans changed with the Wii.

Straight from N 64 Wikipedia.

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The system was frequently marketed as the world's first 64-bit gaming system, often stating the console was more powerful than the first moon landing computers

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It depends on how you define power, which is the crux of the argument. Efficiency in architecture and 64 bits aren't the only way, regardless of how it's marketed.

And they did this while choosing an outdate console storage medium. Marketing speak isn't philosophy. It's Marketing. The Playstation came about because Nintendo thought that file size and FMV weren't important to consoles (Hello FF VII development, that's the only reason it wasn't on the N64 and that was a big shift). Along with the contract negotiations that went awry, the N64 was rushed too. They didn't trust it. That quicker access times and more efficiency were (this carried over to the Wii, stubbornly). Not pure power. 3rd Parties wanted Discs, that was the direction PC's were already on for years at the time.

They rejected the direction that both the PS and Saturn were heading. and the rest, as they say, is history.

Marrying themselves to the cartridge format, then again to NGC Discs for the Gamecube, instead of migrating to full-sized formats, killed their momentum until the Wii. Taken in TOTAL, Nintendo systems are usually less capable overall since the N64, that's the point. Nintendo has done a fantastic job at pushing efficiency (N64, GC), unique tech (GC Discs, FX Chip, etc.), and different kinds of approaches to game development. They've done a poor job at innovating pure power, whether or not they market it.

No one should expect the NX to matchup with current gen consoles. There's no way it will in my eyes. It might MIGHT get close enough to get ports, maybe like the Wii, but that's about the best case scenario. Absolute best.