Aielyn said:
That's actually the one thing that makes me think it might be true (although I'm highly skeptical nonetheless). A lot of fakers will either post highly generic statements that cannot be testable, or overly specific details that would get them into trouble if true. This "leak", if true, is vague enough to protect the leaker yet specific enough to be falsifiable (at least with regards to some of the "information"). Most of the "information" is not subject to significant interpretation, so it's not something which can be twisted by the "leaker" into fitting anything that actually happens. And while there are some points which are either obvious (miyamoto ip) or strongly rumoured (pokken), other points are plausible without being particularly likely. As a number of people have said, any one of these is possible on its own; it's the collection of them all that makes it sound fishy. The only thing a little too vague, other than the completely untestable "Nintendo is going to drop some huge game changing suprises", is the fact that it refers to "old franchises" without establishing what is meant by "old". Does Geist count, for instance? Mischief Makers? Where does the line get drawn? I could certainly see the return of three franchises - Murasame Castle, Ice Climbers, and either Earthbound, Wave Race, 1080, or F-Zero. None of these franchises appeared in the last generation (not counting VC). If it's Earthbound, then it would most certainly fit the "return of three old franchises". There are indications that Murasame Castle is being revived (NintendoLand, the VC game being rated by the Australian Classification Board), and Ice Climbers is the only NES game that got a GBA re-release that hasn't been continued since then. So right now, I'm hoping it's a true leak, but expecting that it isn't. I don't see enough to reject it as certainly fake, but there's more than enough reason to be skeptical. |
Murasame Castle.... This is one of the few long-dead NES classics that would be kinda neat to see revived.
