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Kotaku: A Random 4chan Poster Leaked Nintendo's Switch Event Before It Began
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Theslammer
Member
Movalpolos
Banned
Mods ate crow. Amazing.
purseowner
Member
And thanks to them, I managed to nab Super Mario Odyssey as a username on various social media. 
you really want that treehouse milking gif to be posted again ? lol
Paracelsus
Member
Weren't they the first to leak Bloodborne?
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Nintendo need to start hiring really really fucking old people who don't know what the internet is to set up their booths. Still remember Mario Maker getting leaked cause someone at E3 took a photo of their booth.
Movalpolos
Banned
Yep, more reliable than GAF. War has changed.
I balee it.
shiiiiiiiit
Jonneh3003
Banned
Yep. I firmly believed it was fake. I did like the idea of Street Fighter 2 though whereas others were very against it.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Why did nobody believe it? Because it was so shitty or 4chan?
Eolz
Member
Not just recently. ME3 ending and the DSi for example were leaked there.
But yeah, for recent ones, this, TMS#FE localization, AC 2017, FFXV, Pokemon Sun/Moon story, Smash, ...
edit:
Because for one good leak on /v/, there's about 1000 fake ones. It's just that nobody is banned there in this case (or just evade that ban).
Movalpolos
Banned
LMAO, oh that guy.
The Silver
Member
paragonpro
Banned
I firmly "baleeeed" everything laura k said, and didnt regard anything in the 4 chan rumor.
I have no idea, since it was before I was on gaf.
I'm mainly talking about all the XV leaks.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Congratulations on your promotion to moderator!
Deadpool_X
Banned
I got pretty depressed the second they announced 1 2 Switch, because I knew he was telling the truth, which meant no Skyrim playable, and very few games I wanted to hear about.
RecRoulette
Member
Probably a combination of it not matching a lot of the other leaked information and some of the insane things on there like Ultra Street Fighter 2 and Bomberman.
funkystudent
Member
Yeah. The second 1.2 Switch was announced I went "oh... that leak is totally legit" and then it was spot on for the rest.
Nice to see.
GAF insiders are too busy trying to get more twitter follows
Nice to see.
GAF insiders are too busy trying to get more twitter follows
Some Nobody
Junior Member
And yet 4chan's record continues to stand at absolute nothing. Because it's all anonymous and thus we never know who's right and who's full of it.
But yeah, they definitely called this one directly.
But yeah, they definitely called this one directly.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Neogaf won't run out of threads.
The best Sun/Moon leaks came from China, though. Including the final forms of the starter Pokemon and the Riddler's list.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
There's no incentive to leaking anything on GAF. Posters heckle you, moderators ask for your source and ban you if it doesn't pan out, no redemption when your rumors turn out true.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
probably the best place to leak stuff if you wanted
total anonymity, no consequence, no expectations
total anonymity, no consequence, no expectations
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
I'm actually more curious about the GAF insiders who said it wouldn't be any problem to port any games to the Switch. We still don't know much about the actual specs but aside from the UE4 powered SMTV, it's curious that even FIFA was based on the last gen engine.
Yes, they were. Project Beast first leaked on 4chan as screenshots.
Movalpolos
Banned
Both.
They only got what was at the event, as they said in the post.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Yeah, I caught wind of this list the night before.
First thing I noticed was Has-Been Heroes, which was patented by Frozenbyte last year and had never been reported anywhere. It got confirmed by twitter DMs that night. I decided to hint at it on twitter but most people just ignored it because it seemed outlandish.
When Ono was tweeting pictures of NYC, that pretty much confirmed the entire list to me.
First thing I noticed was Has-Been Heroes, which was patented by Frozenbyte last year and had never been reported anywhere. It got confirmed by twitter DMs that night. I decided to hint at it on twitter but most people just ignored it because it seemed outlandish.
When Ono was tweeting pictures of NYC, that pretty much confirmed the entire list to me.
ronaldthump
Member
The internet is so vast. People can post 1 correct snippet of information anywhere and it hardly means anything. You need to know its real and you need to care.
Doesn't really mean much.
Doesn't really mean much.
Eolz
Member
There's definitely consequences if like every bad leak, you leave too much info/hints in it.
I'm still here. I nailed nearly everything so far that I claimed. Still waiting on the rest that hasn't come out.
They showed XC2 at the event tho? Maybe I don't know what the 'event' really is..?
I also edited to point out that the Super Mario Odyssey logo didn't have a plane in it. I'm not trying to say he isn't credible obviously... just funny/weird that they had some small errors.
Jawbreaker
Member
Now, imagine if that Monster Hunter 5 4chan rumor was true.
