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Originally Posted by Angrist
I personally think that's bullocks, especially considering that Nintendo has been listening carefully to developers about what they want from the hardware.
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Where do you come up with this stuff? Is there some industry-wide survey going on that I don't know about? Is Nintendo traveling the world, taking a bunch of people out to dinner, and listening to them rant?
Let me explain a few things to help digest the rumors:
Generally speaking the "representatives" of a specific developer or publisher are not programmers, but rather producers, creative directors, sales people, etc. If you want to understand how the specs compare, or whether the console is easy to develop for, you need to speak to the programmers.
These people are also speaking in a professional capacity as an employee of their company. That means they say what is in the best interest of the company, regardless of whether or not it is the truth. For example, Mark Rein is in the business of selling licenses to UE3. Saying anything other than "The Wii U is great, you should all buy UE3 and make games for it" would be bad for business. The other people you linked to are trying to sell their game, and saying "This hardware sucks and the controller is gimicky" doesn't make you want to buy your game. This is a business people, the only thing that matters is you buying the product.
Third, due to the nature of confidential information, the only rumors that are true will come from anonymous sources. This is a very small industry, so if you gain a reputation of someone who leaks information, your career may very well be over because you won't get hired again. So any person with a career they care about wouldn't leak the information to begin with, and if they ever did, they wouldn't put their name on it. Of course, the internet is full of morons, so you can expect almost every rumor to be fake. The real problem is journalists who publish this nonsense.