Kotaku: WiiU dev kits are underclocked and not finished

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pariz said:

Exblackman said:
So wait your telling me that Nintendo sent underpowered dev kits just so that no one knows how powerful this console will be not even the very people who are going to make games for them ?

Can you blame them?

I know this will change from now on. I'm kind of sure they kept it secret to see what the reception and critics said about the concept of the console and now they are deciding among three or more different hardware/price scenarios.

I don't think that there was a conspiracy to hide processing power ...

As a guess, Nintendo just wanted to engage third party publishers earlier to get development started earlier; and they wanted to get a development kit of some kind in the hands of developers months before it would otherwise happen. And this may require them to release multiple versions of their development kit before most other manufacturers would have released any kit.