Miscommunication in a business is a common thing, but when it comes to something as major as a console release everyone should probably be on the same page. That hasn’t been the case for Nintendo of America who had no idea the Wii U system, which is leading console sales in Japan, was released last November in the US.
The confusion apparently started with a simple typo on a memo sent from the Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan to the Nintendo of America HQ in Redmond, Washington. In one location in the memo, the release date was listed as 2014 instead of 2012. “No one questioned it,” one Nintendo representative told Texture Pop Gaming. “We just assumed the other ten instances of it saying 2012 were the typos. It was such a nice relief having our deadline moved so far back that we didn't want to push it by asking.”
The only Nintendo of America team member that actually was aware of the release date was the well known Reggie Fills-Aime. Another Nintendo rep told us that everyone just thought he was joking when he would talk about new Wii U releases. “When we heard he was excited about some cartoon Zelda HD remake or a Mario game with cats we just thought it was Reggie being Reggie. We didn’t think there were actually releases he was getting ready for in the near future.”
As for how the few Wii U commercials that were released made it to the public, one anonymous Nintendo employee told us “we just took the dumbest B-roll footage we could find, spruced up some old Wii Sports footage and edited them into the TV screens. We had a good chuckle about how shitty it all looked, until we actually saw it on TV.” Luckily for them, it seems no one else saw the ads. “They only aired seven or eight times,” they told us “but we never got any feedback. Apparently they ran late at night between ads for ED pills and that shark vac thing.”
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