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Pinko Marx
Banned
Why do people keep calling CBOAT an MS employee? I don't remember that being confirmed at all.
funkystudent
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PS4 launch date. He's not a Sony leaker so meh. Probably shouldn't have went out with it though.
And yeah, I'm betting like two people saw the ending to that Halo trailer but they showed the rest to everyone else.
It's still surprising to me to see Ubisoft working on a franchise they put out to pasture (PoP) while they're putting one out to pasture now (Assassin's Creed) to get their new franchise up and running (Watch_Dogs)
Oh right. The October date.
Did he start that? That date bounced around quite a bit now that I think about it.
Anyway Cboat probably works of MS and MS has shown they dont have a clue what Sony has been doing. No wonder he got that wrong.
And I think PoP is like Ubi Montreal's Rayman. They are always working on one. It will always be around. Heck didnt a concept / teaser trailer already like for next gen PoP?
Yeah... Well... How physics applies to our universe might not be true for other universes in our multiverse. OK, buddy? OK?
His past posting pretty much confirms he is in their ranks.
In the quote in the OP he says "Things are crazy around here" more or less.
I mean while there is no direct proof that pretty much confirms it for me that he works for MS in some fashion.
Between this and the "is he banned?" post on the previous page, I'm starting to wonder if people just don't recognise the dark theme for GAF.
He always knows high level Xbox info and his track record on stuff outside of Xbox is pretty rough. That implies at least a mid-level MS employment. That or he's so popular and well connected that he has people from all over MS telling him all sorts of sensitive info all of the time.
Krusenstern
Banned
The Xbone is one big single fuck up. I hope Microsoft will suffer a long time for that.
He's wrong in 5% of cases. Therefore he's fake.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
Maybe he's like that guy that gloated about how much money he spent at restaurants, paying meals for ms employees, so they give him some nice info.
I'm talking about our universe, alright!!! Buddy. <3
Who gives a crap on whether CBOAT only posts negative leaks or also positive news? CBOAT doesn't have to be "fair and balanced", we have Major Nielsen and Albert Ponello to post positive PR spin.
The uncomfortable stuff is what Microsoft doesn't want out in the open, but is the most interesting.
I know; I told him so in a follow up post that you apparently didn't read.
CadetMahoney
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I think he has a solid track record, with only mistakes and out of context remarks, nothing is actually wrong, so his statements should be good.
SEGAvangelist
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It's more than that. Just off the top of my head I can remember at least four in the last year...
- PoP for E3
- Indie developers only getting 3GB app partition for games
- PS4 launch date
- Contradicting himself with saying there is a Sept. surprise not Kinect-less SKU related then saying the surprise was MS considering a Kinect-less SKU
Still, most of this stuff can be excused in some way (PoP may have been confused with Halo, Indie program was never finalized etc...). I don't think cboat's leaks should be taken as Gospel, but I agree his track record certainly isn't bad.
There is a guy who writes the book of CBOAT - where is he?
Panello was a PR puppet, the difference is simple.
Cboat gave some infos from behind the doors, Panello only spit out the usual PR spin.
travisbickle
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Microsoft PR can tell us the positive news, why do we need insiders for that?
My sides, where are sides?!
Major Nelson is a PR guy; Panello at least has provided details.
all of the rumors, including CBOAT's, combined with me having 4 360s die on me this gen is enough for me to wait and see on the XB1, all my dead 360s means I no longer give MS the benefit of the doubt, then you add in the insider info from CBOAT and others about this system being rushed or at least coming in hot and I will just get PS4 at launch and then pick up XB1 later when I see what people say when its out and in people's homes.
CBOAT may not be 100% on stuff, but he seems to be right a lot, at least enough for me to take what he says in to consideration...
CBOAT may not be 100% on stuff, but he seems to be right a lot, at least enough for me to take what he says in to consideration...
Microsoft's PR department is incapable of that.
Krusenstern
Banned
Penello is a PR clown who did nothing more than damage control here on this board. Didn't even hesitate to spread disinformation.
He's a solid shit poster, I give him that.
I wouldn't really use the phrase 'forthcoming' when describing Panello's posts in the AdAge thread. More like avoidance.
CambriaRising
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There's no use.
Takamura-San
Member
People work for a paycheck. There are many of those. Since when does working for a company means that anyone is going to be their unabashed promoter or apologist?
Alx
Member
Maybe it's another silly inside joke, but how can so many people spell "Albert Penello" wrong ? It's annoying.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
The internet occasionally proves its worth; this is one of those times.
His posts are only noticed by them when he gets actually gets something wrong.
The bad news is only noticed by them when they lament no good news.
The good news isn't noticed period.
Bish has defended him plenty of times and for good reason. He's very accurate.
fastford58
Member
Yeah....wrong details.
Canis lupus
Member
So the Xbone was actually planned for 2014?
What was he wrong about?
CadetMahoney
Member
That doesn't work when you think about it.
That would be a very easy way of forcing a response that can possibly benefit a competitor by confirming/denying something because what someone said on the net. Plus his latest news isn't groundbreaking, xbox 1 is vastly inferior? Tell us something we don't know.
Just saw a documentary about McDonalds in Germany yesterday, there were quite a few people who spilled what's wrong behind the closed curtains.
Doesn't mean they were not proud of their own achievments (urgh, should have taken another example).
It's good to have someone giving us another viewpoint or basically more solid info than the typical PR stuff...
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
You can't change your avatar ever because Jiggles you are a legend in my eyes.
SEGAvangelist
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Possibly, or maybe the ass storm was a possible delay. Who knows?
N7Commander95
Member
This thread is a bit of a Circle-Jerk now, regardless of CBOAT being correct or not.
While you are never going to hear that from an official channel it should be pretty obvious through all the missteps this year that is was initially planned for sometime in 2014 and they had to rush because of Sony.
The wanted to ride kinect as long as possible on the 360 but Sony put a stop to that in Feb of this year.
I still find it hard to believe that they changed launch to this year from holiday 2014 just because of Sony's February announcement.
Forget the in-house R&D - how can they manage to put in supply chain and retail in this short time? Never mind the earlier leaks showing it launching this year (some power point presentation leaked in 2012).
Forget the in-house R&D - how can they manage to put in supply chain and retail in this short time? Never mind the earlier leaks showing it launching this year (some power point presentation leaked in 2012).
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