Could Intel possibly be pressing on mobo vendors against releasing new X58 boards?

The recently launched P55 platform needs to gain some market momentum right now which would have been certainly eaten into by releasing new products on a superior, albeit older platform. This way P55 retains the status of new, persuading many customers into buying it over the year old (and not that much more expensive) X58 on account of novelty alone. Creating a healthy userbase is the only way Intel will ever be able to sustain the two platforms and having a fledgling platform compete against another home stable product (a superior one in fact) right out of the gate could have self destructive consequences on their sizable financial investment. Cutting internal competition would be the only prudent course of action at this stage.

New X58 boards can always be introduced later; the launch of Gulftown processor early next year would be an infinitely more appropriate moment for this. Too bad some potentially great products are being put on the backburner though... I was really looking forward towards the ASUS P6X58 Premium for example (would have been my next board for sure) and that got canceled aswell.