This morning, Nintendo showed off a highlight reel of third-party games supposedly running on its new Wii U console. They looked great. Turns out that footage wasn’t running on anything of the sort.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told GameTrailers that the footage – of games like Ghost Recon and Darksiders II – was instead culled from the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the games.
He says the reason for this is that Nintendo is still “a year away from when the console will launch”.
You can catch the full interview in the clip above.
Republished from Kotaku
Dan
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 9:17 AMJust give up now Nintendo. Massive fail.
Matt
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 10:55 AMThe demo reel was aimed to show third party support, not the capabilities of the system. Also, Sony pulled a similar stunt back in the day for the PS3.
Penmonicus
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 10:59 AMI don’t get what the problem is. They just said “These are some of the games we’ll be having”.
Surely most of the times demo reels of games are being played, they aren’t showing stuff running on the actual literal architecture.
DK Son
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 2:59 PMYa, coz Nintendo’s only got the case down pat right now don’t they? More than a year til launch… dayum
Mention anything about the internals and you will get an answer back like “What? Internals? We aren’t that far yet”