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People who think leaks are great apparently have either never had a bit of intellectual property or they don’t care about personal property. The issue of private and personal property is a huge deal and is rapidly loosing importance but it is very important.
True, I agree. I don’t understand why people like leaks, like you’re going to play the game anyway, why be so impatient to have someone leak it out for you?
@@onlylonk8082 Because I'm able to play it early with my hacked Switch And also, I'm bored and tired of waiting for games I actually care about. Been waiting years
@@ParisDorn159 Anyone is fine to have their opinion but I just disagree so much. Even things that I do like, it just ruins the inevitable happy surprise it would be. The 3D All stars leak made the actual product less exciting honestly. Smash character leaks literally ruin the surprise. Imagine if other games were leaked. Super Mario Odyssey info gets leaked before its release? Or how about Metroid Dread being leaked? The games are still awesome, but the excitement of their reveals is flattened because we now saw text in a youtube thumbnail telling us to expect it.
yeah since I get my main gaming news from twitter, I am glad that I am able to block words like "rumors" and "leaks" so it doesn't show up in my timeline. Doesn't help if it shows up on the trending page when something specific gets leaked, but muting words on twitter does help for the most part
@@JCMaldonado13 He has his days but I feel where you coming from cause I do find myself skipping their videos when it's just him unless he's talking about something I'm highly interested in.
I'm fine if its with leaks about _canceled_ games or prototypes like GIGA LEAK. Is it necessary to leak information about stuff that's planned to be shared anyway? Nah...
@@BerserkerKong02 not neccesarily. It's closer to "there's no need to release this garbage content," or "there's no way to package this to sell it, or it would cost too much to do so" and it becomes forgotten
The leaks that I hate are new game leaks. When Dread and Advanced Wars were shown, the feeling was amazing seeing something u did not anticipate. Warioware did not give me that feeling since Nintendo kinda leaked it.
Honestly I used to love leaks but recently I've realized that whenever I watch a direct I usually know the big titles that are being revealed already. If there is a direct this month I haven't looked at any leaks and im glad.
I love seeing leaks of games that have already come out. Seeing cool little scraps of development history, while it's legally sketchy, is great for understanding games, game development and ultimately preserving the art form. The giga-leak showing off all that Yoshi's Island and Mario 64 content, among other games, was an absolute delight to go through, especially learning about Luigi oh my god. But then, leaking upcoming games, even when the information is bunk, just ruins the fun. I feel like leaks have ended up actively harming public perception on a lot of series, Pokémon and Smash especially come to mind where anonymous "trusted sources" dropped all of this almost perfect sounding information, only for none of it to be true and the respective fanbases completely imploded into in-fighting and toxicity. It encourages people to not temper their expectations and then the fallout from the inevitable disappointment is always horrendous.
Im sure one of the reasons the Sword and Shield leak fine was so insanely high was so to discourage future leaks. People will PROBABLY think twice before breaking an NDA with Nintendo again.
I would love to see nintneodlife be a leak-free channel. EVERY games media source will report on leaks and I think it would be refreshing to see a channel take the high road and decline reporting on that stuff.
Recommendation: if you’re going to report on a leak, don’t put the leak itself in the title or thumbnail so if people are interested they can click on, but if they don’t want spoilers they can go on their merry way
Thank you for not releasing a swith pro rumor or potential leak "news". This is why i subscribe to you guys. Thank you to all the lovely people of Nintendo life
I would definetly press the button. Leaks are spoilers but with a higher chance to be false/misinterpreted. It sets expectations way too high, which at one point was discussed to possibly be the reason for major Nintendo Directs to be dead. Now we do know it wasn't the case but I could have totally understand if it was true, because it is very unrespectful towards the people behind the games and also the people who want to be geniunely suprised which I count myself into. It's fun to theorize who the next Smash Char is, but I'd rather make use of "patterns" to explain why Bandana Waddle Dee could be the next Char than using rumors and leaks. Look -> ○ A leaking Jon hole
RGT85 really bothered me last year, by claiming every day the super mario 3d allstars was going to he announced. And then when it finally was he had the nerve to say "I told you so"
For any NEO TWEWY fans out here. Remember your surprise when they just revealed the sequel freaking 14 YEARS after the original came out. Now imagine if that info was leaked. I rest my case.
Yeah, I would’ve been upset af if someone had taken that experience from me. Info about NEO TWEWY did end up getting leaked though, it just had nothing to do with the announcement. People are leaking story spoilers so reminder to be careful y’all
One of the first videos I ever watched on this channel was that NX "Leak" Alex made a few years ago. That and the Mario shorts are why I'm still subscribed today.
I mean, all leaks are also rumours until officially confirmed. Some leaks carry a bit more weight to them, like both Mario + Rabbids games (the first with internal marketing documents leaked, the second with Nintendo themselves having it's came page go live), but ostensibly they're still rumours as plans can change and projects CNA be cancelled before officially being revealed, ala Metroid Dread for DS.
On the grinch leak feels like that had as much impact it has was mainly due to the dry news period that happened at the time while word of mouth that the final characters was going to be ken and incineroar at the time before they were shown back after Isabelle was shown Then the grinch happened and all the weird stuff happened lol
The high quality, consistent, unique videos you guys have been putting out since Jon joined have rocketed NintendoLife’s RU-vid channel to my favorite gaming channel to watch
Good leaks: Employees of Amazon releasing documents revealing that management knows that employees are forced to use bottles, plastic bags, and diapers to keep up with ridiculous productivity standards. Bad leaks: This videogame that is supposed to be revealed in two months exists. If we got more of the former in the gaming industry that'd be a good thing. The latter is mostly just, like, who even cares? I wouldn't even go so far as to call it bad if not for the fact that it can spoil the reveal for the developers actually working on the project.
I would stop leaks before a game came out, but for things like Concept Art or Pokemon space world demo after games release I'm fine with. I'm tired of new pokemon dexes being leaked constantly before release, I liked the slower reveals but now they reveal basically everything to get ahead of leaks.
The guy who leaked the Genshin Impact stuff for Inazuma got fined 500k. Unless the leaks are from the developers, leaks from others can cause stuff much undue stress and disappoint. The guy in charge of the music for the game asked people not to spread it because it was unfinished.
I almost didn't click this video because I thought maybe it was about an actual recent leak so big that you wouldn't want it to be even hinted at in the title or thumbnail. I decided to check it out anyway and realized a discussion about leaks in general makes way more sense
I love speculation and seeing what 'insiders' whisper about. But I'd still hit the button. Ultimately leaks take away the surprise and generate an expectation which is often impossible to meet. Or worse: they generate toxicity against a product which hasn't even been revealed yet. People can still speculate and have fun guessing what's happening next without leaks.
I know this isn't gaming but every time I think of leaks I think about how the absolute entirety of The Rise of Skywalker was leaked before release. Literally everything lmao
See, EA were like that during one E3. They showed off a concept from Criterion (that unfortunately never saw a return), and an early form of the new Mirror's Edge. I'm pretty sure there was something else as well. Point is, doing that did work. Both of those two were hype reveals even in their early stages. Yes, it is unfortunate that Criterion's concept was never allowed to be fully developed, but the fact we knew about it can inspire other developers to try their hand at it.
Yeah yeah corporation bad small studio good, we know, you can't think otherwise or you're a terrible person. But even when a big corporation suffers a leak, that affects their marketing cycle, which affects sales, which affects every single person involved in the development. If a game doesn't sell as well as expected because leaks soured the marketing cycle, those people's job security is affected.
Regarding leaks, I don’t like the intense leaks that completely ruin reveals. If they’re minor or deserving such as the Mario + rabbids reveal then yeah sure. But an outright, game reveal with mechanics, a title, background story details etc isn’t good. Especially when it ruins the reveal, though developers should be more open about leaks, and could potentially use leaks as a way of showing fans what could be coming. I wouldn’t be surprised if some game leaks were made public by the developers to gain interest or spread the rumours around and hype around. Regarding behind the scenes stuff, like concept art, sketches, beta designs etc. Developers should be more open about them things and when developers are open about them things it gives consumers much more value, at example would be the zelda creating a champion book or the xenoblade special edition art books. Even if it’s something small, when I bought sonic mania plus it came with a small 32 page Art Book, a small book in comparison to the other art books. Also, why should art books by solely special edition items. With so many people complaining about values of games, take Metroid dread as an example, people aren’t happy that they have to pay full a triple-A price for a 2D game. (I personally couldn’t care less, I preordered the collectors edition). A way to improve a games value would be to include all the behind the scenes and developer notes as part of the completion rewards. It would be a great reward for fans who have played and completed everything the game has to offer.
I dunno, if the only interesting thing an announcement have is the fact that I didn't knew about it beforehand, then maybe it wasn't that good of an announcement to begin with. In the end, I think the uncontrollable hype generated by the industry is way worse. That and I'm not shedding a tear for a company that can't keep their information inside.
This hits harder after seeing what the "Switch Pro" rumors have done to people's expectations. Ah well, what can you do. Leaks can be cool sometimes, but I've never been a big fan of them.
Would be interesting to discuss the ethical dilemma as a media outlet because you do benefit from coverage of any leaks. Definitely not a dig at NL, but just the reality of the media landscape these days. It's a tricky area for sure!
The fact that leaks are anonymous shows contempt for both the company they are working for, and also for the fans. It's this weird passive aggressive tactic to ruin everyone's fun.
I'd say The Last of Us 2 leaks did that. The game still may have sold well but I feel it taught a valuable lesson in false advertising and in how loyal fans will stay to a company.
I wonder if people get this worked up about leaks and early reveals in other mediums. Like, didn't Alfred Molina basically confirm he was Dock Ock again? I don't know if people got angry about (that other than Kevin Feige)
Leaks about past/cancelled products are fine, but leaks about new games are more damaging then anything. Customers either end up pissed because the final product doesn't live up to their fantasy game, or ambivalent and then bitch about how the reveal wasn't exciting enough for them. The company that made the game must now handle any backlash that they received, and it just adds more stress to the whole game making process. I still remember what the head developer said about the Mario+Rabbids leak. He mentioned how the motivation of the team pretty much got shot because everyone was clowning on the leak. He was so excited about the concept and idea when he pitched it to Nintendo, and only for the customers to shoot him down. It ended up well long term, but this is the kind of stuff that can really mess up video games
I'm scared the BotW sequel's name will get leaked, knowing that it's important enough to keep under wraps still, they are going to want to reveal it with fanfare. I don't want that ruined
Metroid Dread was leaked in 2019. Camelot working on a new Golden Sun was leaked. Same leak as a new Mario sports game was coming. Few weeks later Mario Golf was announced.
I’d say leaks are fine for finished and cancelled games, but that’s it. Ongoing/unreleased projects? God no. It’s painful, especially as someone who gets a lot of genuine anxiety from spoilers. There’s a major difference from going into something blind vs not blind. One major thing with leaks is everything related to Genshin Impact. A massive majority of that community thinks leaks are okay, and will deliberately force them in your face wherever you go without concern for how you feel. It’s absolute hell trying to play that game and see anything related to it online. God I fucking hate people.
I think the problem is too many people take cash settlement agreements with Nintendo instead of fighting them in court. As it is nearly impossible to prove lose of income due to a leak.
