The wonder from down under ladies and gentlemen. This is a good post and one to remember for the next few hours.
At the risk of sounding like a kiss-ass, this is a great post and I think you are consistently one of the better posters on this forum, and this is why.
And I also really appreciate
EatChildren , always one of the best people on gaf and now here.
Thanks amigos.
It just shits me, because it leads to avoidable frustration I find hard to sympathise with. Over excitement and literal interpretation of grapevine gossip from yes, reliable sources of information, but none of which can be actually vetted by anyone else here. The things these people tease and say are not in any way facts. They are not absolute truths, not even necessarily 100% confirmed to the people sharing. They're not Nintendo and treating their teasing and leaks as official announcements is so foolish.
The Metroid-at-VGAs thing is a great example. I don't doubt the leakers stating as much were extremely confident it was happening for reasons we cannot possibly know. We also can't possibly know what actually happened. We can't know if it was real, and pulled. Or if their sources misheard something. Or they lied. Or it was a deliberate bait and switch by Nintendo to weed out leakers. We can't know and they don't seem to know either. In a sea of strikes this was, for them, a miss and is noted as such.
I just remember when I worked in some journo stuff every once in awhile I'd see or hear information that I was personally
one hundred percent sure of yet in sharing couldn't necessarily be trusted because...why would you? Like, I literally viewed alpha tech stuff of Mass Effect Andromeda a good year+ before it was even announced. I saw stuff that never made it into the game. And the same person who shared this content with me told me plans for the game that, to this day, still aren't formally "confirmed" (Kotaku later leaked a lot of it though). I made a video about what I'd seen and heard. And even though I knew
for a fact based on visual evidence that what I'd seen and heard was absolutely true and real, I encouraged people to take what I was saying with a pinch of salt because I personally do not work for EA, I do not work for BioWare, I am not working on the game in any capacity. I am just a stranger on the internet.
I'm confident the Direct is coming as hinted because I like the leakers collective strike rate. But it's not a Nintendo announcement. So until that happens, there is technically no Direct.