I’ve already said my part but I’ll repeat it here just for clarity and ease of finding.
I have worked with and continue to work with several people over the years while as a developer myself, with my own work in various retail and indie products. I know a lot of people close enough to call friends, who work at large studios. A few of these are first party studios. I never once had access to consoles myself, and made a point to say that a lot. Everything I had, was second hand info.
As hard as I tried, I was never able to get anything from camp Xbox. That ship was as tight as a nuns arsehole. I tried, several times, to get something, anything. Not a sausage, other than “just wait”.
But camp Sony was a different story. I have a friend in first party who I game with and used to work with, and we chat often. On talking about next gen, his original tidbits stared small, with smaller details on dates and things for shows, talks, things he had heard rumblings of. Most of which were bang on target, and I posted them, hence the Johnny five stuff.
We get to talking about specs, and his original things we would drop, I would pass on. Target of 10.5-11.5, with it being on the low-mid end of that scale right now for their DK, but it wasn’t sustainable due to heat. On posting this, I got ripped to shreds, as how dare I say Sony didn’t have their shit together.
A little time passes, and he sends me new info, on memory speed and tf being at 11.6, but still with the old heating stuff. He assures me it’s good, so... I roll with it.
I make a bit of a game. Simple, it’s a pigeon game. Lots of clues, lots of little bits of info. Some guess it right, some dont. It’s fun, a laugh.
Then the spec reveal comes and... it’s wrong.
I spend a good week and then some trying to get context off him asking him what happened, and when I finally do, I get an answer; He saw what I was posting before was being talked about, and got the willies. He gave me bad info to compensate for this, but didn’t think it would blow up the way it did. He apologised, and of course, I accepted.
There really isn’t much more to this story sadly. I was given good info the first time, posted it, and it was shot down. I should have ran with that like I did with the pigeon stuff instead of waiting but hey ho.
You win some, you lose some.
I’ve since had several threats, several really nasty DMs on Twitter about my kid, Some Xbox live spam... it’s been a ride.
I still post, even though I get a shit load of flack. I deserve some of it, but not all. I usually just let most of it slide because when you shit the bed, don’t be surprised when people point and laugh. But some of it’s totally crazy.
But either way, it was fun, I didn’t set out to mislead people, I actually set out to help. And I only change my mind once given different info, so, there’s that. But wrong is wrong. What else is there to say?
I’ll answer whatever I can, regardless.
But it has to be said...
