A high profile Nintendo executive has failed to rule out 2007 as the year of the first ever release on their WiiWare service, however the safe bet seems to be on 2008 welcoming the first release by developers. The same exec also indicated that its the end of the road for the Gameboy series.

Harrison also informed us that Nintendo's WiiWare service could actually still launch this year. When the announcement was first made, Nintendo made it seem like we wouldn't see anything until early 2008, but Harrison isn't ruling out 2007 entirely.

"It may not take until 2008. I've seen a couple of ideas that have already been generated even before we went public [with WiiWare]. Whether those are going to be ready or not, I don't really know," he said.

When pressed about WiiWare possibly taking off in 2007, he further explained, "It really depends on the developers. If they have their games ready and they're of an appropriate quality, then there's nothing to stop them from launching before the end of the year. It's just the fact that we only recently gave out the development tools and the development specifications, so most people haven't even started yet."