Soundwave on 23 March 2016
This could cost Nintendo several million dollars, lets just say as a result of this report they end up having the eat the cost on 100,000 Wii U units ... that's not a ton of systems, but still lets assume a manufacturing cost of around $200/unit ... that comes out to 20 million dollars lost, not the end of the world, but certainly not something Nintendo would want.
They can't ask retailers to eat that loss, because retailers will get angry at them ahead of the NX launch.
So it was in Nintendo's best interest to keep this news very quiet.
