01net's newest rumour states that Nintendo took the ideas behind Super Mario Galaxy and Pikmin from other companies.

French website 01net has certainly been producing some rather interesting articles about Nintendo lately. Following on from their suggestions that the 3DS was being redesigned and the Wii U is scheduled for June they are now claiming that Nintendo took the ideas for Super Mario Galaxy and Pikmin from external sources.

According to 01net Nintendo took an unpublished real-time strategy game, proposed to Nintendo by the game's creators years before Pikmin's development, and Nintendo turned it into Pikmin and fabricated the commonly-heard story about Shigeru Miyamoto thinking of the idea while gardening.

The site also claims that a number of ideas were pitched for "Mario 128", which would eventually become Super Mario Galaxy, but they were all rejected. Nintendo then allegedly took a prototype it bought from another company years before and turned it into Super Mario Galaxy.

01net's confidential informer also claims that Nintendo is worried about its future and is aware that they need new franchises and IPs in order to keep going. According to the source Nintendo actually has a "treasure trove" of ideas that it could hand to young developers, both internal and external, for them to develop into new games.

How much, if any, of the above is true is unclear and will probably never be known. The source claims to be from Nintendo but it is unlikely Nintendo would be willing to comment on any of the suggestions mentioned above, in fact chances are they will use the ever familiar line "we do not comment on rumour and speculation".