I dunno, vanishing from three separate distributors around the same time is quite suspicious.

Games vanish form listings all the time. Also why does anyone want it canceled? It's childish and stupid. Not only would it lose trust with fans. Nintendo would only hurt themselves. That is a bunch of R&D money lost. Nintendo has never one to like losing money so they are pretty good about not losing it. I will play it on Wii U and enjoy it and if you don't like that. Not my problem.

What makes you think I want it cancelled? I don't. I'm a Wii U owner who wants to play the game but doesn't want to buy a Switch.

I'm going to do some bad things to Kimishima if that happens.

At this rate it will be timed exclusive for iPhone 8 next fall. Auto run Epona game. It works because horses generally avoid running into trees.

More like launching on the Switch 2 in 2023.

I still doubt it, but wont deny that it is quite possible. The main reasons against this happening being potentially more profits and fan backlash also applied in the case of Super Paper Mario, which despite these reasons was still moved from GCN to Wii. Thus I simply can't say Nintendo wont do this when they've already done it before. Honestly though this wouldn't be the worst thing ever, I mean it would definitely be terrible of Nintendo to drop the Wii U version after promising it for so long, but the important thing is that the game still exist and will likely be good.

You might want to check out the link again. It has been updated.

Someone posted on Nintendo's reddit page:

Post-mortem

Let me just say that any sensible person knew this rumor was bullshit, for so many reasons, even before the hilarious prankster admitted it. For example:

• blog.goo.ne.jp is a site where anyone can create a blog (you can see the second part of the URL, "kojiparapa," indicating whose blog it is). That should be an instant gigantic red flag, but most people probably didn't bother to investigate this or didn't even know what the original source was.
• "kojiparapa" created this blog for the sole purpose of posting this rumor. It has no other posts.
• The content of the post is absolutely nothing. A wild claim whose "evidence" is a cell phone photograph of a document that ranks miles above "Nintendo Duo" in terms of both ease of faking, and absolute low-effort terrible attempt. It looks like it was printed from Microsoft Word with default settings and no knowledge of formatting settings beyond the Tab key.
• I can't read Japanese, but many Japanese users reacting to this rumor on 2channel pointed out how basic and obviously wrong the language used was for a business document.

"B-but the Amazon pre-orders..."

I'm not so sure there ever was an Amazon pre-order page. Posters in the 2ch thread suggest that the GameCube version of Twilight Princess saw a limited release and didn't have pre-orders in Japan, either. Not a single person chimed in saying they had a pre-order that was cancelled. It was all made up with no evidence whatsoever.