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Pokémon developer Game Freak reels from unprecedented "gigaleak" of "significant internal data" (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 89 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Summary:

Gen10 is on the works
Switch 2's internal codename is Ounces
GF and ILCA are co-producing a MP battle-focused game, codenamed Synapse
source code for HG/SS and B2/W2, plus map editor for R/S/E were leaked

Conjecture: I wouldn't be surprised if the TeraLeak in question wasn't planned out by Nintendo and Game Freak, to distract people from the fact that Nintendo is trying to harass a competitor out of the market and suing emulators back and right.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn't the narrative people would prefer.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn’t the narrative people would prefer.

Maybe, in the short term. But as people feel like the vengeance was successful, the topic gets its emotional conclusion. Then the focus shifts from how that leak popped up to the contents of the leak:

code and map editors for really old (more than a decade old) games
tidbits of info that might excite people about new games

Of course, I might be 100% wrong, and the leak might be actually the result of someone getting undue access to that content, or some insider getting pissed and leaking the info that they had at hand. I just think that Nintendo+GF+TPC are scummy enough to forge being leaked for their own benefit.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scummy, yes. But are they competent enough for that? At underhanded public relations specifically? I feel like, if they ever listened to the sort of manipulator who'd suggest this, they'd stop strangling fan projects in the first place. Yuzu and maybe Palworld might plausibly have impacted their immense revenue, but there's a pattern of hyperactive iron-fisted legal horseshit that's gone on for decades.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

But are they competent enough for that?

Fuck - you're right, they aren't.

Nevermind my conjecture then, it's probably as you said.

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