By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Soundwave on 24 March 2016
Edit Thread
SpokenTruth said:
Soundwave said:

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 often clueless, 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 can't comment on it. 

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. 

So NOA and NOE are currently working on marketing, sales, retail, distibution, 1st party localization, 1st party publishing, legal, copyrights, trademarks, EU marks and certifications, 3rd party relations, 3rd party development, etc...with no idea what the console or handheld or hybrid device actually is?

Most likely I would say 90%+ of NOA/NOE employees don't know much/anything about NX. The ones who know are higher ups and they're not dumb enough to leak anything. 

Nintendo isn't some feel good democracy where people gather around a table and talk through ideas, NOA/NOE are foreign distribution centers for Nintendo that shut up and do their job and they do so with minimal freedom and are kept on a very tight leash. 

SuperMetalDave, one of the few actual leaks from NOA described it well ... NOA employees even those who working on a particular project are kept in the dark about other projects. You're not ever brought into a room and told "OK, here's everything about what we're doing in the next year" or anything like that. 

It's far more likely a leak would be from a third party, because Nintendo has absolute and tight control over their own divisions, ain't shit leaking out from there, and that guy who leaked that release list to Super Metal Dave (which still has codenames for upcoming releases so their own employees don't even know which game is which definitively) likely got fired from Nintendo or severely repirmanded.