| Spade said: Do yall think Xbox management should start addressing these rumors? Like the one with Hifi, etc? Does keeping silent actually help, even if they said it wasn't true would people even believe them? Might be a lose lose situation. :/ |
They can't.
Best they can do is release financial data but it would be pretty obviously in response to the rumour.
The reason they don't comment on rumours is because if you comment on one rumour then you have to comment on all rumours which makes it easier to guess which rumour is true and which is false, also in the case of something like a game leak being inaccurate, you can accidentally confirm the game is real even if the details aren't.
I've seen a few Xbox employees lately comment on rumours in a upset manner only to instantly delete their response, Microsoft PR came down hard. They'll likely only comment on rumours if it hurts their stock price which then becomes a "real shit" situation, Hi-Fi Rush won't do that, this being out there doesn't really change a thing for Microsoft internally whether it's accurate or not.
Although it might feel shit if you're John Johanas who has been gushing over how happy he is about the games performance.
