R is for Rumour. Mario Galaxy pushed back to Xmas 07, and Metriod Prime sometime between April and June.

According to a post made by GameDrift, they have recently spoken to a Nintendo Rep. who gave them a little insight into Nintendo’s release plans for some of the most eagarly awaiting Wii games.

An anonymous local Nintedo rep, (the kind that checks in on EB stores) gave me a little inside info today. The word around the company is that promises of Mario Galaxy in the spring are not going to be kept. Although, the New Metroid for Wii will be coming sometime between April and June. He also told me that Metroid will be the first Wii game to be playable over the internet. When, I expressed my dismay at lack of Wi-Fi capable games at launch he explained that the infrastructure is all up and has been ready to go. The lack of Wi-Fi games so far has been due to developers not making use of it.

Interesting stuff, but lets hope this lot isn’t true. I find it hard that Nintendo would tell their lowbie reps about Top Secret goings on within the company.