A report on a Chinese website has sent everyone into a tizzy this morning. It claims the Wii remote has hit a production snag, as they're supposedly having quality assurance issues.

On Nintendo’s Wii side, there are many rumours recently that said Wii may launch earlier than expected in late Oct, in order to suppress PS3 that launches in mid-Nov, but in fact Nintendo may not have a confirmed official launch day, due to all sorts of problems related to the controller that prevented mass production.

The factory has received Wii controller’s purchasing order and its sample, but is still stucked in testing phrase. From feedbacks of testers, currently the Wiimote and nunchuck still have a lot of small issues, such as buttons aren’t sensitive, hard to press 2 buttons together, and even no response occasionally, and the current sample is easy to get damaged, using the controller in normal situation will produce some noise, etc. Entering Sept, if the above hardware problems cannot be fixed, it will directly affect Wii’s selling strategy.

Take this however you will, preferably with a big grain of salt. The article starts off by saying the guy went to the factory to interview someone about PSP production, and it just so happened the Wii remote is also made there, so they talked about that too. Competitors sharing production facilities seems really odd to me, but admittedly, I don't know anything about manufacturing.

There are a lot of question marks surrounding the story (including the source itself, as it's hard to find somebody who knows whether the site is at all reliable), so keep it in the rumor column and don't start weeping and tearing your clothes just yet.