I'm not sure he actually believes them. I am sure that he likes the attention.
Yeah, he would have stopped by now if he didn't want the attention. I wonder if it was all worth it though.
He's very likely to be right about us getting a name and announcement date, though. The only reason I'd think that they'd hide the name at this stage is if it reveals too much about the platform. If it doesn't they have more to gain from revealing the name now due to multiplat announcements and perhaps even allowing devs to give opinions on the thing to press.
I don't know why anyone is surprised 10k somehow managed to seep back into these threads.
What 10k did was shitty and if he had presented himself as a rumor aggregate then maybe people wouldn't have gotten emotionally invested in the rumors. I actually like the idea of a rumor aggregate using the tiered system, maybe we should make one once 10k's ashes have been completely vacuumed up.
What I will say though is you guys really only have yourselves to blame. 10k emerged in the reddit rumor thread where everyone was racing to post every shitty reddit rumor from every unverified source and tried to legitimize them, no matter how ridiculous, based on their own biases. It still kind of amazes me that rando Sonic comic artist on twitter said a non-thing about the NX based on a friend of a friend of a friend and people were actually pushing that as confirmation that "the NX is trash." When you've got people stanning for a "rumor" that weak, how can anyone be surprised that someone managed to dominate the attention of your gullible asses (AGAIN)? That one thread created an environment that 10k could thrive in.
Heh. I'll just say that I have an ulterior motive here and leave it at that. What he's saying is stuff that we can all guess anyway. The bigger topic is, of course, what to expect at this meeting. For example, if we don't get a forecast or a timeframe for when a forecast will be given, it'll be safe to say that it's not launching this year. A lot of people are still certain that it's a Holiday 2017 product because the idea of Nintendo doing something different seems impossible to them.
Also, if they give a forecast, how high that forecast is might be a bit telling of their plans. If it's too telling, they might do a short Direct reveal.