Wii U Release Date May Have Been Revealed By Sega Exec.

By Nikole Zivalich (from G4TV.Com)

Sega executive Alan Pritchard may have let the release season for the Nintendo Wii U slip. According to a statement he recently made about Sonic Generations, "the Wii U is coming out next spring/summer."

The Wii and GameCube launched in November and the Nintendo 64 launched in September. Spring is not a season Nintendo usually launches a console in. Do you think Pritchard misspoke or is Nintendo trying something new?

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"The timing just doesn’t work…Generations releases this November, and the Wii U is coming out next spring/summer. I think one of the things we don’t have to do, or reduce where possible, is we don’t want to port games. I think if there’s going to be a Sonic game for the Wii U, it needs to be built from the ground up…It’s more likely that it would be a separate stand-alone installment or in conjunction with a multiplatform release in the future. But to bring out Generations on a platform six or eight months after we release PS3, 360, and 3DS probably won’t be the best strategy.”

I find it unlikely that Nintendo will release the Wii U in the spring. The summer seems more likely but financially speaking, a holiday release would make the most sense.