| Dolla Dolla said: It wasn't from an unknown site. There was a podcast listened to by one of VGChartz members, in which someone said on June 11th an announcement would be made. This news traveled from VGChartz to a number of different websites. The author, URNotE, was surprised it got mentioned in so many different places, even on NeoGAF. This isn't the first time something is hyped to sound good only to be disappointed. |
An editor at 1up.com or Joystick.com (I think) posted that there was going to be huge Wii news (way) before launch. This posting was taken notice of at GaF and on the Penny-Arcade forums and many people thought he was being serious. The "huge news" was not very big at all and it enraged many of the users of these forums who decided to stay up late at night to see what it was; the result was that they complained to the website and (if I remember correctly) the editor was fired.
It isn't unusual for a website to overhype something, inf act I think it is more common to overhype a nothing annoucement than to release an actual huge annoucement .
