Update: Leaker says the new Switch model he teased is next-gen, not a revision, Q1 2024 release

[Norion]

Pemalite said:

Norion said:

In this example you'd look towards the end of the article and see that he said he hadn't been able to confirm it with any of his own sources so it wasn't something he was vouching for. Shikamaru went into his high accuracy but the main point is what the source is and how it's being reported. If a console is launching in under a year and leaked details about it are being widely reported on then there's gonna be a lot of accuracy to it. As I said before anyone paying attention to leaks in 2016 knew that the Switch was gonna be a hybrid system ahead of time so leaks clearly have value.

Majority of "leaks" cannot be confirmed. They are leaks.
He is just trying to cover his ass, despite propagating false information.

That's not really a fair way of looking at it. He's up front about what stuff he's fully confident in and what he's not confident in like that article you shared. If he's fully confident about something then it's very likely to be true, his track record is that good. People trust what he says for a reason. It's good to be sceptical but dismissing leaks entirely is going overboard with scepticism.