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[Nirolak]

I thought it might be fun to have this thread so we can review everything after tonight.

Here are a few snippets, though the full piece is much longer: http://kotaku.com/its-reckoning-day-for-nintendo-switch-rumor-reporters-1791120192

Laura Kate Dale:

Few people are as nervous for tonight as Laura Kate Dale, a UK-based reporter and prolific tweeter who has cultivated a reputation for sharing Nintendo rumors in the lead-up to Switch. Dale, who is 25, has been a full-time reporter since late 2014 but started making a name for herself last year with a series of tweets and reports full of Switch details both major and minor. Tonight, she may be vindicated. Or embarrassed. Or a combination of both.

“I am constantly worried about that,” Dale told me during a recent interview. “That is honestly the most tiring thing about doing leaks, is the sitting and waiting and wondering, ‘Am I gonna lose all credibility because all of this is gonna turn out wrong?’”

...

“Sharing information can be somewhat addictive,” Dale said. “It’s something that, while it does have its stresses attached to it, there is also something very rewarding about doing it. And I know there are times where I have probably said things that were either granular or I didn’t need to say, because sometimes you just wanna say, ‘Hey I know a few more things,’ so that when information starts coming out it’s obvious that OK, yeah, you did know more.’”

SuperMetalDave:

Tonight’s event may be the coda to what has been a wild, leaky year for Nintendo. Dale’s cavalcade of Nintendo reports follows several major rumors that hit throughout 2016. In February, a NeoGAF poster called Trevelyan9999—also known as SuperMetalDave—published a list of upcoming 3DS games and marketing budgets that turned out to be real. It mostly consisted of codenames and didn’t offer any useful information, but it was accurate.

Later, SuperMetalDave reported a number of NX rumors on his YouTube channel that proved to be very much false, including a claim that the NX would use AMD’s x86 architecture and be more powerful than the PlayStation 4. If you’re wondering about the discrepancy: According to one person familiar with the situation, SuperMetalDave got his hands on that 3DS marketing plan because of an e-mail that was accidentally sent to a large group of people, then passed along to him. He didn’t have any real “inside” information beyond that e-mail, which might help explain why his subsequent reports were off the mark.

Emily Rogers:

Look at Emily Rogers, for example. Rogers, who has a long and polarizing history within the Nintendo fan community, has been sharing rumors and leaks since around 2011. Back then, she had a reputation for being wrong more often than not. She made several outlandish claims and had a tendency to delete tweets and posts every few months after things stopped panning out. But in the Switch era, she’s been on the ball, correctly reporting on some hardware details (plus the existence of Paper Mario for Wii U) as well as others that may or may not pan out tonight. (Rogers declined to comment on this story.)

Tom Phillips (Eurogamer):

Although Phillips falls into a different category than Dale or Rogers—as a full-time reporter for Eurogamer, he tends to be more careful about corroboration, and he prefers to post his stories on his website rather than on Twitter—he’s also eagerly waiting to see what happens tonight.

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“I’m confident in my own reporting, but things do change,” Phillips said. “It has been fascinating, following the Switch line-up so closely over the past six months, to see how late things get finalised. I think there’s a belief that release dates and announcement timings get nailed down months in advance when actually they are incredibly fluid. So yes, there have been times when I’ve read things and thought, ‘Hmm, that doesn’t sound like it’s the case anymore.’ And it’s certainly kept me on my toes—the biggest example has been Zelda’s release date—now back on for March but previously pencilled in for summer.”

 

[Salty Rice]

Its time this madness finally ends.

 

[OricWindstar]

Big fan of Laura and Emily, as journalists and seemingly as people too. Hope to see them not lose their credibility.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Oop, time for receipts!

 

[Confused Cheeseburger]

Laura has the streets on lock.

 

[bananafactory]

Seems like a few of these could be labelled 'reporters' but for the vast majority of people spreading Switch info the past year I feel that term is too kind.

 

[LiK]

Turns out Nintendo will change everything because of the rumors.

 

[malfcn]

Separate the Crazy Butts from the Asses?

 

[Ray Down]

Its time this madness finally ends.

That ride never ends.

 

[Quintin DM]

Oop, time for receipts!

LOL yep, gonna be really interesting to see how much of these leaks are true or not.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Finally the receipts come in.

 

[PeterLegend]

I can't wait to see how Sony copies the Nintendo Switch LOL...

In the words of Reggie

 

[Kouriozan]

Might not be if Nintendo keep surprises like revealing Mother 3 at E3 and to be downloadable right after the presentation.

 

[JStein0222]

I like Emily, but Laura's / excessive / bragging about seemingly every little thing she leaks is getting old. Your source, that you trust enough to post about, told you information that turned out to be legitimate... Like, what is reporting?

 

[Thoraxes]

That was a good writeup regarding what the past half year has been like concerning the rumors.

 

[ecosse_011172]

SMD - Seriously included with the others?
He clearly has no idea whatsoever, as nice a guy as he may be.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Laura has the streets on lock.

Mother 3 hype

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Its time this madness finally ends.

It's only gonna get worse.

EDIT: Credit to AAMARMO for this.

 

[Apathy]

Regardless of whether the rumors of specs were true or not, people will barely care tonight among the hype. They'll see mario and lose their shit and no one will be saying "hey that's not what rumors said" until like next week

 

[Durante]

I don't know how much of a "reckoning" on technical specifications you'll really be able to have after today.

Knowing Nintendo, that will only be truly possible once either the dev documentation leaks, someone takes a microscope picture of the die, or the system is hacked.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

It's only gonna get worse.

Considering we're already in the darkest timeline, I believe it.

 

[bumpkin]

Personally I just think most of the stuff they put out there are educated guesses based on trends and patents. These people having "sources" means that someone who's not supposed to be sharing information is sharing information, jeopardizing their career with one of the biggest video game companies in the world. If you ask me, you'd have to be an idiot to leak information to these random internet personalities.

 

[JayEH]

It's only gonna get worse.

I'm dying

 

[Goldmund]

Laura's presence on the Podquisition verifies her to me. I hope she's giddy, not nervous.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Wait, is there a Nintendo conference tonight?

 

[Omega Kirby]

Godspeed Shinobi

 

[AnthonypUK]

I like Emily, but Laura's / excessive / bragging about seemingly every little thing she leaks is getting old. Your source, that you trust enough to post about, told you information that turned out to be legitimate... Like, what is reporting?

Not surprising, catching her on a podcast she has to be one of the most annoying people behind a mic who seems to be all about being the me first centre of attention. I'm sure we'll see it on display in the next day or so.

 

[AAMARMO]

It's only gonna get worse.

That guy who did that is probably crazy.

Spoiler

Please Credit Me.

 

[valkillmore]

It's only gonna get worse.

Darkest timeline

 

[robotrock]

LPVG shared some good info on some stuff that was pretty quickly validated, like the date of the Switch reveal trailer and the Beyond Good and Evil news.

if the event doesn't announce everything she's mentioned in the past few months...i'll blame it on nintendo, not LPVG. things change.

 

[Red Fire]

It's only gonna get worse.

LOL

 

[13ruce]

We will know who were fakes for attention and who were real.

I have my pitchfork ready.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

It's only gonna get worse.

lol

 

[VariantX]

It's only gonna get worse.

Quick, how do we prevent this future from happening? Whose grandparents do I have to go back in time to kill!?!?

 

[SolidSnakex]

LPVG shared some good info on some stuff that was pretty quickly validated, like the date of the Switch reveal trailer and the Beyond Good and Evil news.

if the event doesn't announce everything she's mentioned in the past few months...i'll blame it on nintendo, not LPVG. things change.

The thing is that she's actually been shaky on the BG&E news. For example, when she first reported it at Destructoid she said that it was an exclusive that was being funded by Nintendo. Now it's a timed exclusive. That's a rather big shift from being a Bayonetta 2 situation to being more like Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

[dangeraaron10]

Sorry Laura, no bad feelings, but I hope you're dead wrong about the Smash port being barebones and mostly unaltered.

 

[Mediking]

Hahahaha must be a rollercoaster yet self-fulfilling lifestyle to be a leaker.

 

[BRocknRolla]

I look forward to these reckonings. I always do.

 

[Kremzeek]

i really hope the battery life rumors are NOT true (although based on history i should know better)

 

[RecRoulette]

It's only gonna get worse.

lmao, that's pretty good.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

It's only gonna get worse.

This just made me realize that Metroid Prime Hunters would probably be retroactively classified as a hero shooter

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Why are people doubting Laura again? Remember when people thought she 3D printed the PS4 slim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9V6VeZdMCQ

 

[EloquentM]

That guy who did that is probably crazy.

Spoiler

Please Credit Me.

It's okay I know who deserves the credit

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Yes, because if they're wrong this time, we'll...keep getting hyped about their future rumors.

 

[Hydrus]

It's only gonna get worse.

Sad part, is this looks more legit than not

 

[Thoraxes]

It's only gonna get worse.

All you need are some modbot locked threads to elevate that lol.

That image felt real enough that I actually had to go check the main page to verify if it was real or not.

 

[Dark_3nergy]

Sleeping after 11 EST hits will be hard. If the pre-orders go up tonight though...... yea.

As for the leakers/leaks themselves, always take a grain of salt with every word.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Is someone here going to do a report card for people? I'd love that.

 

[Blobbers]

It's only gonna get worse.

lol @ the Metroid f2p reply count

 

[LordRaptor]

Time to put up or shut up random screen grab from a Starfox cartoon