Dunno about PlayerEssence, but any source of SMD's needs to run far away. Dude will stab them in the back in a heartbeat.
A lot of these 'powerful console' truthers just don't want nintendo to do anything else, so they make all evidence point at their hopes and anything that doesn't agree with it is false or clickbait. They don't understand that things aren't always related, or that their interpretations are just one possible assumption.
Like, the guy literally did not understand that retail job listing is almost assuredly for help with promoting the 3DS this holiday season - not for promoting NX's handheld counterpart next year.
It's the greatest form of denial.
Again, nothing is 100% til nintendo reveals it, but come on, if I had to bet, I'd put all my money on eurogamer being somewhat close to what nintendo is actually making over them.