Nintendo Is Hard At Work To Prevent Future Leaks

PYORO, NO!!!!!!!

You know what? Good.

Leakers and the concept of leaking information are designed to ruin surprises for attention and make them less fun for developers, so i'm glad Nintendo is doing anything to prevent future leaks.

Hope PlayStation does this too in the future.

I'd say take closer look at that Bowser guy for leaks. I'll never fathom how he became president of the company given his history as a tyrant who kidnaps young maidens.

Nintendo does not mess around. You'd think these were nuclear secrets, not family friendly video games.

I wish they'd adopt an anti-metroid policy when it came to pricing cheaply-made ports though.

They hired more ninjas

@PikminMarioKirby What do you mean "no"? He already gave away what was the problem without reading the fine print on his interview.

His fault for not knowing how to stay hush hush

@SillyG I dunno what that has to do with the article....

@DripDropCop146 Wrong Bowser.... lol

@Milt Leakers are not all bad on paper, especially when they are going the more journalism route on checking in on how development is going or a company's state of mind.

@Samalik Yeah Pyoro was acting a bit odd after the previous Direct, definitely wasn’t acting the same. He should’ve kept silent during the whole Direct season if his source was being quieter. Nintendo likely didn’t put their games on eShop immediately just to try to catch him. Probably too worried about his reputation as a leaker so he accidentally let things slip.

@Samalik
But just think of the poor e-celebrity people have developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship with, truly a tragedy that they are being denied clout.

And here, I'm still waiting for Kadokawa to restore Nicovideo soon. In any case, I gotta wonder what motivated such an attack on Nico that would take about a month to fix.

Cuz for a cyberattack to cause that much to fix has got to be REALLY BAD.

Good. These leaks are beyond annoying and ruin the surprise of what's to come. Here's hoping Pyoro gets a significant fine for leaking previous Directs

@Samalik Leakers have been around since the dawn of journalism. Labeling them bad in general seems like a misstep. Alot of leaked information has actually been beneficial to the public.

There will be more leakers.
It happened before, it will happen again.

There were leakers before Pyoro and Midori. There will be leakers after as well.

I can't wait to see who comes next ❤️

@Milt I agree with you. Leakers, rumours and speculation ruin a great deal of fun in the anticipation of official news. Sure, it's fun to fantasize, but what troubles me greatly is how leakers and "insiders" have become so influential they can even alter stock markets.

Good. Patch those leaks. They spoiled too many surprises already.

That said, I hope to still see beta game leaks from old games. Seeing development cycles and ideas that were changed or unused etc is genuinely really cool.

Leaks?

Maybe focus on being Nintendo in a good way for a while.

I don’t really mind them doing this. I did used to read about leaks a bunch, but after the Midori and Pyoro situation, it really opened up my eyes to how clout chasing and somewhat smug some of these leakers are, not to mention that it has ruined so many surprises for many too. I still wouldn’t be surprised if any leaks came out despite Nintendo enhancing its security against leakers, but it now might be harder for leakers to make unreleased info available to the public.

There are journalists who do reveal unreleased or private info to the public, but I do not consider them leakers, since some of the info they do release is actually really helpful, like revealing the bad working conditions of a specific game company. It’s only really non-journalist leakers that I take an issue with now.

Yes, it’s long past time for Nintendo to get stealthy. My interest in leaks has reached an all-time low and I won’t be following such things anymore. So many of us have made leaks a part of the hype when they really shouldn’t be. I shouldn’t need fake info or spoiled surprises to be excited for the future.

Still, it won’t be easy to keep real leaks stopped for long. There will always be some sneaky jerk somewhere. When one head is whacked off, another will grow. Good luck fighting that hydra, Nintendo!

Don’t care about leaks for announcements but cancelled games and videos/images etc. of them? Leak away.

Dying to know what the original vision for Prime 4 was. Ideally would be great to get an in depth documentary about the development of that game but it’s Nintendo so that isn’t going to happen…hopefully a dev on the original version will shed some insight one day

Oh yeah, I find sites like TCRF endlessly fascinating, but daily "leaks" in news articles, which ultimately end up as nothing more than rumours that are more often then not, debunked, those have become white noise to me, now.

I noticed something was up in the direct when none of the new games had “available to preorder” after them. Can’t decide if pyoro going down is a good thing though. I certainly enjoyed watching people decode his cryptic hints, but it’s nice at the same time to have unspoiled directs

Good job to the NintendoLife worker who chose that thumbnail for the article.

Gotta protect your assets from the claims the anonymous internet will assert they have to your work, for sure.

Couldn't really care less, for a consumer this is pretty much a non-issue. Sure, leaks ruin surprises, if you happen to see and read them, but if journalists stopped writing about them, so that you would have to seek them out in various forums, then you'd easily avoid them anyway. Again, it's pretty trivial.
However, I totally understand Nintendo wanting to prevent them.

Welp. Guess we'll just have to rely on time-travelers then.

That is a perfect picture for the article.

At least leakers didn't make us wait for the official date of a direct because Nintendo remains stubbornly silent. I have to thank Pyoro for giving us the date, well it was fun while it lasted.

Mario has learned to properly fix those leaks at last as a plumber.

Vinnie and Rocko were sent out to bust some kneecaps

Perhaps they can help Ubisoft with some tips. 🙂

Why is this an investor question? I don't see how leaks connect to profitability. We can hear about the very tense culture of secrecy from Kit and Krysta, so cranking that up from 11 to 12 would likely just make a difficult work environment even less sustainable. So perhaps talent retention would be harder such that profitability favors no change in approach here.

Also I hadn't put together Mario as plumber and Nintendo hating leaks before. Perhaps that's really why they changed him from a construction worker 40 years ago. 😆

I was about to say something about how leaks ruin the surprise of game reveals which I genuinely dislike, but then I caught myself leaving this page to search for more Nintendo Switch 2 leaks, so, I guess I'm capable of wanting it both ways 🤷‍♂️

Now if only Gareth Southgate could do the same for his England starting XI every game...

But seriously, I think Pyoro already did Nintendo's job for them. Ain't no leaks coming from the web back end no more. Maybe we'll have to rely on good old printed lists of Direct content that seem to always pop up somehow...

Most people have to sign NDAs to gain access to confidential information so nothing wrong with companies enforcing that. People don’t keep their word nowadays.

@Milt oh no, not the surprise of the ad showcase, however will we live

Here's hoping for new leakers.

I'm going to miss the Nintendo Switch leaking era. Was pretty fun. I understand that it ruins the fun for some people, but to me, it exponentially increases my hype. I don't take leaks as gospel, I just think of them as an educated guess of what could be in the next direct. Sometimes they're real and its a huge surprise that some random Spanish speaking account got it right. Other times the rumour was fake but it was to think about.

Bit wasteful of resources and gives attention to attention seeking babies who itch to cry foul when Nintendo flexes on them. It's pretty easy to avoid leaks. Just like it's easy to snicker at pathetic bottom feeders making this their purpose in life, chasing scraps of fleeting internet fame. I mean aside from the smug equally bottom feeding people who think themselves proud/fighting the power for the grand privilege of knowing the contents of an ad or game slightly early.

It's a strange world to me this whole leak business. Seems the leakers are really just people exploiting other people (honey trap) hacking etc. they are actually bad people to get that information - either doing something illegal or grey area like stalking but not stalking. And mostly it's now about credibility of leakers Vs how they get the information. It's not journalism although they think they are, verging on the side of extreme egotistical or extreme narcissism. It's a dark side of humanity simply to just get information a couple of months early. And yet Nintendolife is happy to use Reddit gamingleaksandrumours and use it as reporting.... So it's even worse that's now used as a source of reporting, when the way this information is obtained is no better than rupert murdoch's method of hacking people's phones and tailing people. Except because it's by a layer of extension, a report on a report - it's ok.

But it's not really is it? Sign of the times, we are too short tempered and impatient to wait for the next game...

A leaked game may eventually be good, a game where time and resources were spent on "information security management" and "continuous education for employees" will be bad forever.

Talk about something that has no impact in the grand scheme of things and should be at the bottom of Nintendo's priorities. It does not matter if people hear about a game a few weeks early.

Awesome thumbnail. Well done @JimNorman!

Rest in Pyoro!! Good riddance, leaker culture only excites the weak and desperate. These aren’t whistleblowers ….they’re clout chasing thieves. To each their own but to those who do enable and respect these leakers..the day someone leaks your personal and medical information or hacks your phone…you have to respect and praise the thief!

depends on what you mean by "leak" info may dry up yes but games breaking street date online probably not (at least until the next gen console where denuvo's drm may be implimented or if new security measures are done switch security is too weak to impliment drm like on pc games I mean the wiiu cdn is still an open book until they shut it down 100%

Honestly don't understand the problem with leaks. Maybe for game story spoilers but it's mostly pre-empting development announcements. Messes up their marketing plans but who cares?