Wii Rumble Not Dead After All

[wraggster]

After getting a bit panicky yesterday about the lack of Wii rumble, we got two corrections to our story, assuring us that the Wiimote has rumble after all.

First of all, an anonymous game dev working on a way-hyped next gen game messaged us, assuring us his dev kit very much had rumble. That's a relief.

Secondly, Mark Green, editor of NGamer magazine, wrote us. Mea culpa, apparently. From the NGamer homepage:

No Wii Remote rumble? Kittsy spotted that I'd made a mess of page 15 just after we finished the mag. It was too late to correct and resend the page to the printers (apparently yelling "Hold the presses!" doesn't actually result in boiler-suited workmen running about like mad and machinery grinding to a halt). So we forget about it, assuming the worst that might happen is that a few readers might write in to point and laugh at our mistake. Of course, now it's all over the internet. And we look very silly indeed. So, to clarify: the Wiimote does have a rumble. And a speaker. Shigsy isn't going to kick out either feature (as far as we know). DON'T PANIC.

[lexluthor]

Haha I just saw it on their forum... haha. How could they make a mistake like that?

Anyway they were the first ones to announce that Zelda was coming to Wii and noone believed them then... and they where right... so.