wsippel said:
True. However, all they did in this case was to (accurately) quote a Linkedin profile.
Which in and of itself, without any further context, is hardly worthy of all that much discussion. I think GAF would really benefit from more posters moving past the point of simply avoiding
straight-up factually inaccurate stories and onto the point of avoiding
contextually uninformative stories as well.
Since this thread was first started, we've more or less confirmed that a) Nintendo
have been handing out devkits for the 3DS and bringing people on board officially to develop for it and b) they
haven't been doing so for a Wii successor. (Not that they're not developing it, not that they aren't starting to possibly talk to higher-ups at other publishers about it, not that the hardware might not already be locked down -- but there's a point at which you've put enough dev hardware out there that your system becomes an open secret, and we hit that with 3DS a little while ago but have yet to get close to that point with Wii's successor.)
That makes a comment on the LinkedIn profile of a random developer
from Midway (i.e. a shitty C-tier publisher in the midst of being broken up for spare parts and devoured by larger entities) pretty much empty information -- it's quite possible that the team have been working on a game using a cross-platform engine under the assumption that an HD-powered Nintendo system will eventually release, either speculatively (as Ubisoft have done with their team dedicated to creating prototypes for the potential next hardware generation) or based on some vague assurance from Nintendo (like "we will eventually produce a Wii of some kind that outputs HD") but quite unlikely that it's based on a level of concrete, factual information significant enough to fuel anything but more "lol Wii HD" arguments.
********** (to their credit) are pretty straightforward about exactly that in the linked article: it says pretty clearly that this isn't confirmation of anything, we'll almost certainly learn nothing more about this particular piece of information, and it serves no purpose besides to fuel uninformed speculation. :lol