| Millennium said: Some employee at some publisher? Not a chance. This is just another hoax, even less reliable than Pachter's usual garbage. Nothing but another troll trying to tank Wii sales. |
While I agree that this is a unbelievable rumour, rumours like this can be started by low level employees at large publishers who don't understand what they're seeing ...
In theory, Nintendo could approach a couple of major publishers to get feedback on the current state of their next generation hardware; and, while this is a different approach to what Nintendo usually does, this isn't that unusual being that Microsoft and Sony have done this in the past. There goal from a effort like this (beyond improving third party relations) would be to get feedback on the hardware, finalize the specifications, and to begin releasing early dev-kits for the middle of 2010; with the intention of releasing a system Q4 2011.
Now, the technical staff (and many of the support staff) will know that it will take 18 to 24 months to make a decent launch game for a next generation system, and if they began today the game would not be ready until late 2011; but the low level data-entry clerk hears about Nintendo showing off next generation hardware and writes an email to their favourite blog and expects a system to be released in the next 6 months.
