I'll let you guys decide where this one fall on the BS Meter.
Nintendo to annouce Wii HiFi @ E3?Pachter Redeemed!?
This Tuesday, June 15 at 9am (18h French time) at Nokia Theatre, that Nintendo will hold its conference of E3 2010 . While many games should be announced as the next Zelda or The Last Story (with the presence of Hironobu Sakaguchi), many eyes will be riveted on the obvious new laptop: Nintendo 3DS ... But beware, according to our information from developers, the 3DS should not be the only machine unveiled by Nintendo . It is becoming increasingly clear that the manufacturer would conclude his lecture by unveiling its next home console, named Wii is currently code HiFi! We learn in the aftermath the next home console from Big N would be calibrated for release in November 2011. - She would have a power similar to that of an Xbox 360
- It should not be called "Wii 2", but Wii HiFi (in any case the code name leaked)
- It would be very oriented online
- One of the main features is the community
- It would be released in November 2011
Nonetheless, there remains many unanswered questions. This code name will be there final? How will she presented or discussed? The console will she physically present on stage? Will it be a video? Just a few sentences? Answer Tuesday! The conference will obviously follow live on Gameblog ...
a more englishy translation perhaps:
The journalist from gameblog.fr are on a leash recently. After implying that they already saw Metal Gear Solid Rising running at Kojima productions, and leaking Mizuguchi's next game code name (Child of Eden), they are now affirming that Nintendo's next console will be called Wii HiFi. According to what game developers told them, it will be announced at the right end of Nintendo's E3 conference, and it is planned to release around November 2011. Here are the details that have leaked so far:- It should be on par with the 360
- It should not be called Wii 2 but Wii HiFi
- It will be very online-oriented this time
- Community aspects will be a big component
- It should be out around November 2011
They don't know how much Nintendo will be showing at E3 though: just the name? Maybe the design? The controller?
What if this is confusion and is really details about the 3DS.
-Closer to on par visually with a 360 than a DS
-Very Online Oriented (reworked Online with help of google maybe?)
-Community Aspects (AnimalCrossing/FriendCollection integrated GUI)
-Out by Nov. 2010 and not 2011
It is common for these things to get taken out of context and only after all is revealed you realize that some parts of a bogus rumor were actually truth of something else. Only then do you realize that wires were crossed and signals were mixed.
But like the rumor says, Tuesday is when we'll know for sure.
edit: I would like to add that while I know the Nintendo service reps usually don't know more than we do, and in lots of cases, less than we do, the service rep I talked to yesterday suggested that I might want to wait until after E3 to see what Nintendo has in store for their Online Service.
I didn't think anything of it then while in context, but thinking about it afterwards, I wonder if she knew something I didn't.