Official Wii U Thread!: Pokemon Rubmle U coming to Wii U

[Viper1]

JEMC said:

I get your points and, in parts, I agree with them. But

Viper1 said:

How about a financial reason?   Stock values can fluctuate based on information.   Nintendo could be holding back information via NDA's to keep stock at a certain projected value until they are ready to unveil the information at which time they expect the stock value to rise.  If the stock figures are part of their expected fianncial data they give to stock holders, they need to control the information that affects their stock price as much as possible.

Their silence is allowing "anonymous" sources to make claims that are harming their stock's value more than needed. And holding back info now to make their stocks rise when revealed is a risky business as no one knows if (given they are good news) they will rise enough to compensate the decline they are suffering now from those rumors. A small tidbit from Iwata could put an end on most of these rumors without any compromise.

Viper1 said:

Another financial reason?   They spend millions of dollars o their E3 booth and media briefing conference.  Do you think they want to spend all that money just to have all the information already leaked out?

Their booth at E3 will be full no matter what they do. Lots of people will want to try the controller with "proper" games, not minigames/tech demos.

Look, I know you want information, as do I, but you have to udnerstand that in thsi business NDA's are very common.   I've signed several of them myself being in the media....and for my own side business.   I've even written a few and had others sign them.

I could go on for post after post giving you reasons for the strict NDA's but I'll just leave it be by saying that Sony and MS also have all devs under a strict NDA right now.   And the volume of entities that are under NDA's is huge: publishers, developers, manufactrures, componenent vendors, suppliers, analysts, marketing firms, retail, legal firms, distributors, trade exhibitors and on and on and on.    And as I said, this goes for all 3 console makers and the NDA's go both ways across countless aspects of those segments I listed.