| Purple said: As I say, this is stuff I personally don't believe but I can guarantee you my friend does work for Nintendo. His role is quite junior though and I gather most of this is nonsense intended to wind me up or random office gossip. I only posted here as I was surprised to see a couple of things I was told turned out to be true. |
He probably just got remarkably lucky. "2D version of the 3DS to come out soon" sounds like the sort of troll thing one might say to screw with a Nintendo fan... the fact that Nintendo is actually doing it is surprising. "W101 was originally a Wii game" sounds like something that a troll would say if they wanted to imply that it's no better than a Wii game... besides which, the fact that development started on the Wii makes sense; it's a pretty extensive game, it makes sense for it to have been in development for more than a year or so.
Meanwhile, the supposed information he's given you otherwise mostly sounds like he's openly predicting the complete destruction of Nintendo on the basis that third parties won't accept free money and will happily give bought dev kits back to Nintendo for no particular reason, that Miyamoto's games suck (what?), and that first-party developers are troubled by lack of power (when it's never been an issue for them before).
Perhaps you should go to your friend and ask him or her to provide something specific, unlikely, and confirmable. Something that hasn't been announced publicly, but is known within Nintendo. I'm betting that they can't provide anything.
