NoE employee reportedly said that NX controller pics are fake

[Soundwave]

SpokenTruth said:

Soundwave said:
I have my doubts that anyone who's not a higher up at NOE has seen or been briefed on the NX. NOE doesn't have any game development wing either.

Yes they work at Nintendo, but Nintendo is notorious for keeping their own employees, especially the foreign divisions like NOA and NOE largely out of the loop. It's part and parcel how they prevent just about any leaks.

Unfortunately for Nintendo there's only so much they can do about third parties though, at some point you have to give them hardware so they can make games, and third parties are much more prone to leaking things.

So you are saying that 3rd parties know more about NX than their own foreign branches?  The very branches that will need months to prepare marketing, sales, retail, distibution, 1st party localization, 1st party publishing, legal, copyrights, trademarks, EU marks and certifications, etc...?   To say nothing of the fact that those foreign departments are usually the intermediaries between NCL in Japan and foreign 3rd parties.

In a word -- yes. Nintendo doesn't trust NOA/NOE with shit, this is why things like Nintendo Directs/E3 presentations/etc. etc. etc. never/rarely leak. Because NOA/NOE employees are given nothing to leak, this has been borne out before where some news has suddenly leaked on the internet, and a NOA/NOE employee not being up to date on it often responds in an out of touch fashion. 

A third party though? Once you send them that dev kit, I mean sure you can make them sign NDAs and all that, but in today's day and age all it takes is one guy with a cell phone camera or a big mouth and things can leak. 

NOA/NOE likely in a broad sense will learn about NX on a need to know basis, and that is right as they unveil it from Japan or maybe very slightly before.