wraggster
April 29th, 2006, 09:16
Source: A news story on the Web site of wire service United Press International, which has since been updated.
The official story: See below.
What we heard: As far as gaming Web sites were concerned, there was only one story to report on yesterday: Nintendo's controversial renaming of the Revolution, which now goes by the name "Wii." The fan furor over the move has yet to die down completely, as GameSpot's story on the switch has received 3188 mostly angry user comments and counting.
But while most outlets were reporting only on the name change, the news wire service United Press International put up a story saying that Nintendo confirmed a fourth quarter release date for the Wii in addition to the name change. So we asked Nintendo PR how we missed the announcement. A succinct reply came back, with the Nintendo rep saying only, "To my knowledge we didn't announce any sort of launch date yesterday for Wii."
Lo and behold, UPI has since changed its story to say that Nintendo only announced a 2006 release date for the Wii. Meanwhile, some unfortunate affiliates who picked up the original story apparently didn't get the memo. However, gamers can still expect the console to arrive in time for the holidays. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told consumers to expect the console by Thanksgiving. Unless he says something different at Nintendo's pre-E3 event on Tuesday, May 9, expect that launch window to stick.
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that the Wii's ship date was announced, not bogus that the Wii will arrive in Q4.
http://us.gamespot.com/pages/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24568456
The official story: See below.
What we heard: As far as gaming Web sites were concerned, there was only one story to report on yesterday: Nintendo's controversial renaming of the Revolution, which now goes by the name "Wii." The fan furor over the move has yet to die down completely, as GameSpot's story on the switch has received 3188 mostly angry user comments and counting.
But while most outlets were reporting only on the name change, the news wire service United Press International put up a story saying that Nintendo confirmed a fourth quarter release date for the Wii in addition to the name change. So we asked Nintendo PR how we missed the announcement. A succinct reply came back, with the Nintendo rep saying only, "To my knowledge we didn't announce any sort of launch date yesterday for Wii."
Lo and behold, UPI has since changed its story to say that Nintendo only announced a 2006 release date for the Wii. Meanwhile, some unfortunate affiliates who picked up the original story apparently didn't get the memo. However, gamers can still expect the console to arrive in time for the holidays. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told consumers to expect the console by Thanksgiving. Unless he says something different at Nintendo's pre-E3 event on Tuesday, May 9, expect that launch window to stick.
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that the Wii's ship date was announced, not bogus that the Wii will arrive in Q4.
http://us.gamespot.com/pages/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24568456