Shigeru Miyamoto has addressed the Wii successor rumours using cryptic business talk.

In the last few weeks the Internet has been atwitter with rumours about a successor to the Wii being shown at E3. While more and more rumours are coming in, suggesting it will do everything just short of overthrowing Gaddafi, Shigeru Miyamoto has commented on the rumours.

Speaking to French site Gameblog he stated that he is aware of the rumours that have been circulating around the Internet. While he states "there's no smoke without fire" he also downplays the possibility that the rumours are correct.

Yes, I saw found rumours speak of "Coffee". At the time I want to say it's normal. You know Nintendo, like all other manufacturers, our job is to design new machines. We believe it takes 5 years to make the R & D interesting. Afterwards, I admit that there is no smoke without fire. We must realize that we spend our time developing in-house gaming consoles. Some of you will ever see. With us, as we do not know exactly where we are going and when do we get out our next console, we do not disclose publicly. But we should not believe everything we read ...

This is a Google translation so it may not be 100% accurate

It would seem we are no closer to knowing if Nintendo will even show anything at E3 but at least it is now a bit closer than it was when these rumours started.