{"id":35328,"date":"2012-04-03T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35328"},"modified":"2012-04-03T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T09:11:01","slug":"wii-u-release-date-leaked-by-japanese-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35328-wii-u-release-date-leaked-by-japanese-retailer","title":{"rendered":"Wii U release date leaked by Japanese retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from WiiUDaily, Nintendo\u2019s new console looks like it\u2019ll be hitting store shelves across North America in November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The information comes from an internal e-mail which was allegedly leaked by Akihabara-based Media Land, a popular video game retailer throughout Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The memo apparently states that the Wii U is set to launch across Japan a week after North America&#8217;s November 18, 2012\u00a0 launch date.<\/p>\n<p>The e-mail didn\u2019t detail any information regarding a European or any other region\u2019s release date, nor was it officially confirmed from Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>The original Wii launched on November 16, 2006, leading many to believe that the Wii U&#8217;s reported launch date could be accurate given that it corresponds with its predecessor&#8217;s release to almost exactly 6 years.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiiudaily.com\/2012\/04\/wii-u-launch-date-set-for-november-18-2012-report\/\">WiiUDaily<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31758-wii-u-hardware-is-changing-constantly.html\">Wii-U hardware is &#8220;changing constantly&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34051-epic-gushes-over-the-wii-u.html\">Epic gushes over the Wii U<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34727-darksiders-ii-joins-wii-u-launch-lineup.html\">Darksiders II joins Wii U launch lineup\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports suggest Wii-U is releasing this November <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":35329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3147,73,773,1399,3145,3146,3148],"class_list":["post-35328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-media-land","tag-nintendo","tag-rumour","tag-wii-u","tag-wii-u-rumors","tag-wii-u-release-date","tag-wiiudaily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35333,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions\/35333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}