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[shinobi602]

Jesus christ, sounds like something out of The Godfather. I was just reading an interesting piece on CVG's site where they put together an "analysis" on when and how the PS4/720 will be announced and came across this little tidbit.

Nintendo ninjas ain't got nothing on this shit:

With regards to the Next Xbox, further media leaks seem highly unlikely. As one insider revealed to us:

"When Microsoft wants to run a secret project, they divide it into tents, which are cross-discipline teams. The first you know of this is you're asked for a one-to-one webcam chat, where it's explained to you that it's pretty much Fight Club, and that you're not allowed to tell anyone that you've been talked to about "joining the tent".

"You sign a load of paperwork, and then afterwards they give you some indication of what the hell you'll be working on. The bit I find crazy is that you have to find time to work on the tent project yourself; your line manager isn't allowed to know what you're working on.

"Microsoft sends out a list of stock answers that you're allowed to give if your manager asks you where all your time is going, and a phone number to call if they don't believe you. If they call that, they'll get confirmation you're working on a project, but absolutely nothing more."

 

[Apeopleman]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

 

[fluffydelusions]

 

[papercamm]

This makes me wonder what it's like in Blizzard.

 

[DopeyFish]

Leaks are serious business

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Most of the time they aren't

 

[Patryn]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

It's not about the fans, it's about the competition. The less Sony knows, the less they can adapt to have the "better" machine.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

That sounds like an absolutely terrible work environment.

 

[Goldenroad]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Rumors that end up being false are bad for sales. They probably don't have every locked down right now, so it is pretty important that people don't think you're doing something that you're not.

 

[infinityBCRT]

Oh right, Patrick Klepek leaked the Xbox 360

 

[Reiko]

No Fun Allowed...

 

[Alx]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

 

[The Elite]

There have already been leaks. I'm not sure what will change now.

 

[DopeyFish]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

Because that manager isn't privy to the project

 

[LyleLanley]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Controlled leaks are good, letting competition know exactly what you have planned isn't.

 

[bill0527]

That sounds like an absolutely terrible work environment.

No way. If you have the technical skill to work on the next Xbox and you are asked, you absolutely jump on that chance, even if its a Draconian work environment. This is like a career-defining project.

 

[Reiko]

There have already been leaks. I'm not sure what will change now.

Half of that stuff is made up or wishful thinking.

The importance is the accuracy of it all.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

Because that's how leaks happen. The less people to know, the better.

 

[T'Zariah]

Nintendo still is the best company at keeping secrets.

I don't think any company comes close.

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

What a load of nonsense for a games console...they need to get some perspective on the importance of it in the overall scheme of things.

 

[Jarlaxle]

I'm going to try this at my job. When my manager asks me where I've been and what I've been doing I'll just tell them I can't tell them and give them a number to some message I've set up verifying that I'm doing something they're not allowed to know about.

Ridiculous.

 

[kurahador]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Needs that E3 megaton.

 

[P90]

Maybe the 720 isn't going to be as powerful as expected? This is a possible cover up to shorten the time/resources needed to quell a backlash and do damage control.

 

[Zoe]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

Managers don't necessarily have a part in the actual work their employees are doing. They manage for HR purposes.

 

[PAULINK]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Because they want control.

 

[Elios83]

If things were so strict and taken so seriously (even by those who sign the NDAs) we wouldn't know anything at all about new products.
Clearly leaks are part of the industry and cannot be avoided just as telling things is part of the human nature

 

[infinityBCRT]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

Just a guess, but based on experience, sometimes people are under groups they are tangentially related to because the company wants to group people together a certain way which works for most people, but doesn't make sense for a small percentage of employees. So I can imagine that there are some employees who have a manager that really doesn't deal with projects they are working on.

 

[RoboPlato]

They've been operating like this for years on the Durango project and leaks have still happened. Further leaks are just as likely as the past ones, nothing has changed.

 

[Reiko]

So who else will take one for the team on NeoGAF?

It's going to be a painful wait until the spec reveal.

 

[MikeE21286]

I'm going to try this at my job. When my manager asks me where I've been and what I've been doing I'll just tell them I can't tell them and give them a number to some message I've set up verifying that I'm doing something they're not allowed to know about.

Ridiculous.

Give them a number to my Dad lol.

 

[zomgbbqftw]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Not really. We have some evidence that Sony have upped the amount of RAM from 2GB to 4GB possibly because of the leaks saying that Durango has 8GB.

If the information had not leaked Sony could have launched a system woefully inadequate compared to Durango with just 2GB RAM.

 

[Jb]

Why do they have to be so tight lipped? Leaks are good for hype

Killer features they don't wan't their competition to know they have?

 

[jaypah]

What a load of nonsense for a games console...they need to get some perspective on the importance of it in the overall scheme of things.

but....its their business. It's not like MS is in the business of curing cancer AND making Xbox and this is getting in the way of the cancer curing.

 

[Tomcat]

They've been operating like this for years on the Durango project and leaks have still happened. Further leaks are just as likely as the past ones, nothing has changed.

What leaks
the surface tablet no oneshow that coming by the way

 

[woodypop]

No Fun Allowed...

Such a good scene.

 

[amstradcpc]

ray tracing chip confirmed.

 

[shinobi602]

Nintendo still is the best company at keeping secrets.

I don't think any company comes close.

Not recently. The gamepad for the Wii U was leaked well beforehand, as was the 3DS XL.

 

[Messypandas]

And they have to pass three rituals: "Crossing the desert", "the Unblinking Eye", and "the Paddling of the Swollen Ass"

 

[kuroshiki]

Nintendo still is the best company at keeping secrets.

I don't think any company comes close.

says the guy with pokemon avatar.

not even close.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

Not really. We have some evidence that Sony have upped the amount of RAM from 2GB to 4GB possibly because of the leaks saying that Durango has 8GB.

If the information had not leaked Sony could have launched a system woefully inadequate compared to Durango with just 2GB RAM.

Didn't that have more to do with devs themselves telling them that they have to up their stuff?

 

[infinityBCRT]

Needs that E3 megaton.

It will make for a crazy E3 but unless they book a 3 hour event I don't see how they'll have time to talk about the system AND the games (assuming they've lined up a bunch of first party exclusives and third party world premieres). I think they'll need a separate event just for the system. Whether that's in March/April, or just before E3 remains to be seen.

 

[Kimawolf]

I don't get it... why would one's manager not be informed on what his staff is doing ?

Because think about it? what if the huge specced machine is not what they end up releasing, or some other aspect that has people super hyped up about the machine ends up being false. It happened to Nintendo with the Wii, one of their prototypes are quite a bit more powerful than the Wii is, I remember reading it on these forums, and everyone was hyped etc, same thing with the Wii U, leaks said it was gonna be only a few times weaker than next box etc, then slowly the truth came out and in both cases it ended up not being the truth. So best to just keep all leaks stuffed.

 

[Petrichor]

Not really. We have some evidence that Sony have upped the amount of RAM from 2GB to 4GB possibly because of the leaks saying that Durango has 8GB.

If the information had not leaked Sony could have launched a system woefully inadequate compared to Durango with just 2GB RAM.

None of which is substantiated of course.

 

[IMBored]

That may be good to restrain leaks, but restraining and compartmentalizing information during the development of a project ends up stifling creativity, and not receiving diferent inputs from other colleagues or devs.
Worse yet if there's diferent teams working on diferents parts of the architecture when it's time to put it all togheter it may not be exactly what they wanted.

 

[shinobi602]

They've been operating like this for years on the Durango project and leaks have still happened. Further leaks are just as likely as the past ones, nothing has changed.

All those "leaks" are just guesses. Nothing's been confirmed.

 

[AR9om7rt]

Nintendo still is the best company at keeping secrets.

I don't think any company comes close.

DAT JAPANESE LOYALTY

 

[Lambtron]

I find this pretty hysterical, to be honest. Awesome.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

says the guy with pokemon avatar.

not even close.

You'd think you'd go for all the leaks they've had in the past 2 years like the Project Cafe leak, the gamepad leak and the 3ds xl leak . But noooo silly avatar judging instead.

 

[StoppedInTracks]

But isn't everything leaked already? 8 gigs, 8 cores, etc.

 

[kuroshiki]

That may be good to restrain leaks, but restraining and compartmentalizing information during the development of a project ends up stifling creativity, and not receiving diferent inputs from other colleagues or devs.
Worse yet if there's diferent teams working on diferents parts of the architecture when it's time to put it all togheter it may not be exactly what they wanted.

that might be true. look at how surface RT turned out. That's some disastrous launch right there.

 

[monome]

There is the Neogaf leak and there is the corporate leak.
Clearly the first one, a few months before the console is launched, is more hype inducing than a real threat to the companies patents and relevantness in the market.