Rumour: Nintendo Canada Marketer Spills Beans On Wii-DVD, DS Hook-Ups
Note: This one's only filed under "RUMOUR" because of the awful punctuation throughout (on the part of the interviewee). It's obviously a literal transcription of what he was told, but when I see that many words go by without a full-stop (Americans, that's a period), I get nervous.
Tim Ashdown, a Game Design student, sat down for what should have been an innocuous chat with Nintendo Canada Marketing Manager Farjad Iravani at a recent Canuck press event.
It was all going swimmingly, until Iravani's PR-mouth stopped working, and his real, emergency one kicked in.
When asked about the plans for DS-Wii connectivity, he blurted:
They are capable of communicating with each other wirelessly but at this stage there are no plans for such functionality.
No plans? Oh. Well...that's a shame. In the interests of optimism, though, let's chalk that one down to a poor choice of words, and move on to his second slip. Ashdown later quizzed him about the plans for Wii-DVD, and Iravani's primary mouthpiece was still down:
There will be a Wii option released in the 2nd half of 2007 that will be DVD capable it will be a second model in addition to the classic "Canadians" will have a chance at that point to buy the current model or the model that supports DVDs there will be a price difference but it will be available in the 2nd half of 2007.
Nintendo, you're doing a god-awful job of keeping the western release of this thing a secret. Just come out and announce it, so I can stop starting these posts with "rumour". The spelling difference is confusing people.
FtBU Chats with NoC MM Farjad Iravani [From The Bottom Up]
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