Rumor: Wii Launching Early?
Okay, okay. I hear you, no one's going to do a surprise launch right? Especially Nintendo. What's the point? We all know what happened with Sega's surprise Saturn availability announcement. So why the speculation?
Well, reader Jut wrote in to let us know that he (or she) looked up inventory info on both the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. Everything on the PlayStation 3 database entry looks kosher: ships November 17th, street date is November 17th. (Hey, that beast of a package weighs 15 pounds!)
The Nintendo Wii on the other hand, has a very different kind of entry.
According to the General Item Information on the Wii, Best Buy will be receiving their shipment from Nintendo on October 29th. Yet, no street date is listed, despite Nintendo announcing that the console would go on sale November 19th nearly a month ago.
Will Best Buy be sitting on their inventory for 3 weeks? It's not totally crazy, but maybe a little odd.
Definitely not as odd as Nintendo changing their launch date, but stranger things have happened. If there's one thing we have learned from the upcoming generation of consoles, it's that we can't count on previous generations to set the rules.
Still, this could be nothing more than outdated information or an errant entry, as an earlier than announced launch date sounds suspect at best.
If the console doesn't launch early, at least we'll have that much more time to hopefully trick a blue shirted sucker into breaking the street date. Yeah, consider this pure speculation that most likely won't turn out to be true. But if it does, can I pump my fists in the air and yell "I totally called it!"? Please?
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