I don’t know exactly who started all of this, but the “news” that IBM is already producing and shipping Wii CPUs is spreading like a forest fire at the moment. A simple PR statement from IBM (and Nintendo) escalated into “big time news”.

None of it is news of course, we’ve known that IBM has been producing the chips for quite a while now, but apparently some of my fellow bloggers from Joystiq and Kotaku didn’t. Joystiq editor Chris Grant later apologized for the whole thing. Even Gamasutra and Slashdot jumped on the wagon.

P.S. We know we’re not any better than Joystiq and Kotaku, once we actually posted this, and called it “news”.