There are individuals who have made proclamations about Nate's reliability as a leaker/rumor maker and we should regard them as fact due to a track record. (That isn't 100%)

Hence the entire debate in question.

Saying you believe Nate isn't the same as saying stating the rumor is a fact though.

I believe the leak, but it's not a fact because it's not confirmed yet.

Can you point to any posts where somebody argues that these rumors are 100% fact because Nate said them? And even if somebody is deciding to die on this hill, I don’t see the purpose in debating it. I mean, if that’s what somebody chooses to believe, then let them be. Let the dreamers dream.

Afaik GBA was far from being a declining system to be needed a reinvention with NDS

You guys should just give up from this merry go round. When someone doesn't want to be convinced, it's impossible to argue.

Nate has a track record of getting things correct.

Someone saying "well I think he is wrong" is based on what? Nothing. Gut feelings? Meditating? Taking mushrooms? What specifically about the rumor can you say you know for sure has to be false? 

Zero? Zip? Then you have nothing. He has a proven track record to bring to the table, you're bringing nothing to the table. Even if you end up being right it was based on nothing. 

Video Games Chronicle (VGC), a fairly reliable site has also said they've heard the same things Nate reported too from their own sources. 

Based on his being wrong with Twilight and Wind Waker to the S1.  He is 0 for 2 with Zelda.  So I am a bit skeptical he is right about his newest Zelda prediction/leak.  

He was wrong about the Pro as well.  

The skeptical approach isn't baseless.  

This is the exact post Perma is referring too. 

I hope it happens, but Perma's point, which is agree with, there is no evidence that he is right about Zelda Remake. 

Star Fox, because of the movie, that feels like a fair prediction because there is some basis.  

This is where words matter.  Nate has a track record of getting SOME things right.  Could even argue his predictions are above 50%..  but we shouldn't act like it is a lock because he said so with zero evidence, when he has been wrong before, especially with Zelda.

The problem is not that Nate can't be wrong, the problem is that based on his track record there is no logical path that leads to thinking he is guessing or making predictions rather than that he does have good sources.

Having good sources doesn't mean he'll be right 100% of the time, games get cancelled, plans change all the time, but the stuff he leaks is definitely not coming from his head.

Let's says TLoU2 online was never announced and it got cancelled after years like it did, it still existed and a leak about it would appear fake even as it was very much real.

Not only that, but plans change and even extremely knowing people might not know why.

Shuhei Yoshida was one of the producers of The Legend of Dragoon, and years later he went as far as to be SIE's president.
More than 10 years after the game released he said there was a second LoD game once in production, but he changed places from Japan to the USA and that he still didn't know why it was cancelled.

Someone as ridiculous big inside Playstation and deeply involved with LoD didn't know what happened to another LoD game to be cancelled. If Shuhei Yoshida was Nate's inside contact and once told him about that game being in production while Sony never even a single time ever mentioned it before and to this day, that would be counted as a big stain on Nate's track record. But it couldn't be more real.

I'm not saying anyone should believe a guy online, even Nate, but again, based on his track record and the extent he has gotten some things right, there is no logical path that leads to anything else than he having inside contacts actually leaking very specific things to him.

You can choose to believe him or not in general or even in a case by case basis, tho.

Ok, I assume the same sources as those who told him WWHD to the S1, which never happened.  The same sources that told him TPHD to the S1, which never happened.  His Zelda sources, based on what I have seen, don't appear solid.  Really, that simple, IMO.  Had he nailed WWHD and TPHD, sure I would be giving him a massive benefit of the doubt.  

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I guess my point is, I don't question his track record overall, but I do question his Zelda specific track record.  His Zelda predictions leave a lot to be desired. 

To be fair, I suppose, a lot of this could be a defense mechanism.  Zelda is my favorite franchise in gaming, by far..  I have been wanting a Ocarina Remake for decades and I do not want to set myself up for disappointment.

You see, I was going to say that moderation needs yo step in… but then I remembered that it is a moderator who needs to be moderated. Lol!