Nintendo lastly revealed the brand new Switch 2 handheld console yesterday after months and months of rumours and hypothesis. While most individuals simply appear to be completely happy that there is lastly affirmation, one individual can not seem to look previous the leaks that led as much as its announcement.
Hideki Kamiya, the sport designer of Devil May Cry, Okami, Bayonetta, and at the moment directing Okami 2, has determined that those that leaked the Switch 2 simply earlier than its launch deserve some everlasting punishment (by way of Eurogamer). “I hope that the entire individuals who leaked Switch 2 data/those that helped leak it will likely be cursed for the remainder of their lives to all the time have poop on the soles of their sneakers after they get residence.”
I can solely assume that is mentioned in a sort of jokey frustration, besides, a curse that plagues individuals to tug poop by means of their home each time they arrive residence appears like a inventive and sure very efficient curse, to make sure. But he would not cease there.
“The shitty leaker solely acts for his personal pleasure and self-satisfaction—not solely is he not contributing to anybody’s profit, he’s incurring all kinds of alternative losses and has accomplished nothing to be happy with in entrance of others,” Kamiya says. “He is the worst of scum, so he ought to be coated in shit from head to toe and thrown out of the ambiance.”
New leaks concerning the Switch 2 surfaced simply days earlier than the official reveal. Even if the pictures had been blurry, they dampened the large shock a bit. A few former PR managers even mused about how the leaks would have an effect on firm morale forward of the launch: “I’m 100% certain that they’re actually mad, to probably the most extreme stage” (by way of GamesRadar).
スイッチ2の情報をリークしてた奴ら／リークに加担してた奴らは全員この先の人生ずっと、家に帰ったら靴の裏に必ずウンコ付いてる呪いにかかれ……と、大神の発表でサプライズをユーザーのみんなと一緒に楽しめた今、心底思う…糞リーカーどもは一人残らず呪われろ…January 16, 2025
I do not doubt that everybody over at Nintendo is probably going very upset about that complete state of affairs, however even nonetheless, I feel Kamiya takes the cake: “These rattling leakers are ready of accountability the place they’ve entry to data that solely a really choose few know, but what they do is nothing greater than an expression of a dirty want for approval that lacks a shred of rationality—they’re shameful individuals. So it isn’t the producers whose secrets and techniques have been uncovered who ought to be blamed, however these rattling individuals, and so they have to be crushed as quickly as potential.”
This is a bit hyperbolic in locations—crushed is a powerful phrase—however nearly each videogame dev has needed to assume up methods to counteract the potential of leaks so I can perceive the frustration with the issue.
Just final yr, former Bungie lead counsel defined how the studio managed to nail one among Destiny 2’s most notorious leakers. After a content material creator leaked some pictures for clout, a few of the devs saved an eye fixed on everybody who had seen the content material and managed to line up somebody’s icons on the backside of their display screen to those within the leaked pictures. While this stopped the creator from leaking any extra content material, that does not imply that the devs do not nonetheless must watch out.
Some of the most important leaks over the previous couple of years, apart from the Switch 2, embody GTA 6’s trailer dropping a day earlier than it was meant to be launched, screenshots of the subsequent Sims recreation, Project Rene, and a fumble that noticed Sony unintentionally leak the entire of Destiny 2’s newest growth. Long story brief, leaks are laborious to cease and appear straightforward to return by so, even with Kamiya’s curse looming, I doubt they’re going to cease.
