StickSoldier
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And the mystery continues!!!!
So the thread got 1,097,347 views and 10,000+ replies in a day huh?
Jesus christ Nintendo has the gaming community by the balls when it comes to news, if only they could capitalize on it
Honestly, I find the way that people in this thread are trying to rake the insiders - the ones who have been fairly consistent - for being wrong here to be kind of shameful. I also can't help feel that there's some jealousy or some similar motivation there. A desire to see them disproved rather than to actually evaluate whether or not they might have access to the knowledge they claim to.
This fake was built on NX patents. Therefore, we know that Nintendo is considering certain aspects of it, and it's not a significant stretch of the imagination to think that Nintendo is going to make something with some of those aspects.
Most of what we've been hearing from insiders is that the NX controller has no buttons, and that this fake lines up with that. That's not the same as saying that this controller is real, and the fact that this was proven to be a fake does not mean that the NX has buttons. We don't still don't know anything about the actual NX controller. It could very well have a lot of the features of this one, even if the ergonomics and other design details are completely different.
Beyond that, someone who has heard good information has not necessarily learned it firsthand. Considering how many people who should be knowledgeable thought that it was consistent with what their sources were telling them, I would not be surprised if the fake is similar in some key respects to a real controller that their sources were telling them about. I'd also suspect that they'd never actually seen the NX controller, so they could only guess whether or not it was real by comparing it to the information they had received - preferably against the information they had received from multiple unrelated sources.
Was our best source. He's done now. Nintendo most likely fired his source and served him some mighty legal threats. He's dead.
Well Harker said he didn't want to comment on it, but this thread would have stopped at page 3 if Matt, Iherre or him just went "lol nope". That's not really breaking NDA, it just confirms that the picture was fake.Well FWIW he did reply to someone in the comments in one of his videos earlier this month that "everything is fine" but yeah, he's obviously laying low and like you I'd be amazed if his source wasn't found out. That said, I don't care if he "was" our source, Trev may be the best Nintendo source GAF ever had and his info dump put many other "insiders" here to shame as dangerous as it may have been. And if anything Trev's posts from his verified source coupled with the NX fake controller troll have together really upended and scorched a good portion of GAF's insider status quo culture here (not talking about reliable folks like John Harker obviously) and has caused folks to finally reflect on what these folks say, how they say it and whether or not any of it really has any merit outside of attention mongering. People will think twice next time someone plays games like coyly saying something was "Confirmed," scoffs with "lol" replies as if they have inside info on specs or plays ASCII word games.
I'm so depressed now.
We all shared something in this thread. We laughed, we cried, we argued.
Now it's all gone, I mean what is even the point anymore.
Well Harker said he didn't want to comment on it, but this thread would have stopped at page 3 if Matt, Iherre or him just went "lol nope". That's not really breaking NDA, it just confirms that the picture was fake.
But this thread did clean out some pseudo-insiders and showed the real ones.
I'm so depressed now.
We all shared something in this thread. We laughed, we cried, we argued.
Now it's all gone, I mean what is even the point anymore.
If the NDA is as strong as it sounds, confirming something is fake may even be pushing. And also.. I'm sure they were intrigued but the reactions too.
they farmed data out of us .
Well Harker said he didn't want to comment on it, but this thread would have stopped at page 3 if Matt, Iherre or him just went "lol nope". That's not really breaking NDA, it just confirms that the picture was fake.
But this thread did clean out some pseudo-insiders and showed the real ones.
I'm pretty sure mostly everyone is relieved that this is all fake.
Physical buttons ftw.
The only GAF insider I trust anymore is BruceLeeRoy.Well Harker said he didn't want to comment on it, but this thread would have stopped at page 3 if Matt, Iherre or him just went "lol nope". That's not really breaking NDA, it just confirms that the picture was fake.
But this thread did clean out some pseudo-insiders and showed the real ones.
Disregard my idea
This is a lot better holy crap
Yet people wanted to shit on Travy now hes gone.. oh well
And not a word about Miitomo overseas.
Well Harker said he didn't want to comment on it, but this thread would have stopped at page 3 if Matt, Iherre or him just went "lol nope". That's not really breaking NDA, it just confirms that the picture was fake.
But this thread did clean out some pseudo-insiders and showed the real ones.
But this thread did clean out some pseudo-insiders and showed the real ones.
If the NDA is as strong as it sounds, confirming something is fake may even be pushing it. And also.. I'm sure they were intrigued by the reactions too.
No NDA can punish that. The NDA's usually are more about revealing features of the system, or revealing specs. A firm "this is fake" doesn't really scream NDA violation to me.
No NDA can punish that. The NDA's usually are more about revealing features of the system, or revealing specs. A firm "this is fake" doesn't really scream NDA violation to me.
"Confidential Property"
It just screams fake.
not really. they can just easily put "don't talk or mention anything NX related" or something similar clause in that NDA which will be violated when you're confirming that a 'leak' is fake
The Nintendo NDA for the 3DS prohibits even mentioning that you have signed a Nintendo NDA (I would tell you how I know that, but it would technically be breaking the NDA). I would say confirming that it is fake would definitely violate it. (I know nothing about the NX, before anyone asks - I've been out of the industry for a few years).
different NDA has different clause. while a 'lol' might not be that obvious, outright saying 'no' will show that you know about NX and talked about it, thus breaking that hypothetical clause. (disclaimer: i dunno the content in NX/Nintendo NDA at all, just assuming)First off, he has internet anonymity, second off, a simple "lol" or "no" is not talking about the NX, therefore it doesn't violate anything.
And in the past, when things leaked, such as the rumor that no assassins creed would be coming out this year, Harker posted "ubisoft needs to fix that leaky ship", so he's done it before
Maybe he just loves watching the chaos. John Harker is a sadist.
whoa.
How can talking about the 3DS 5 years into it's lifespan break it's NDA? Doesn't the NDA expire at launch?
That's a cool animation, but how in the holy hell does that actually work with thumbs in the way?
Other than obscuring up the buttons where the thumb is in the way?
They should revisit the two towards the right; those look pretty damn cool actually and could be functional in some diverse ways.I Admit it. I take the L for shitting on Nintendo earlier in the thread. I don't mind eating the crow. But something has to be said about the fact that it was so easy to believe. Nintendo is fucking crazy, and after seeing their prototypes for the Wii that were considered but turned down:
It's hard to make out juuuuuust how fucking crazy they are.... I mean.. shit, they damn near considered a fucking round controller with a STAR button in the middle once upon a time... Is a buttonless monstrosity shaped like the ovals you filled in with #2 pencils during school tests really out of the question with these guys?
It's still good to hear though. I enjoyed MK8 and I really want one on their upcoming console, but it needs to be reasonable. I'm not buying crap.
I still wouldn't trust Dual Pixels, but I do wonder if ID 2Dev did pretend to be a source for other people as well.