Nintendo lastly revealed the brand new Swap 2 handheld console yesterday after months and months of rumours and hypothesis. Whereas 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 Satan Could Cry, Okami, Bayonetta, and presently directing Okami 2, has determined that those that leaked the Swap 2 simply earlier than its launch deserve some everlasting punishment (through Eurogamer). “I hope that the entire individuals who leaked Swap 2 info/those that helped leak it is going to be cursed for the remainder of their lives to at all times have poop on the soles of their footwear once they get residence.”
I can solely assume that is mentioned in a type of jokey frustration, besides, a curse that plagues folks to tug poop by their home each time they arrive residence seems like a inventive and certain very efficient curse, to make certain. However he does 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’s the worst of scum, so he must be coated in shit from head to toe and thrown out of the ambiance.”
New leaks in regards to the Swap 2 surfaced simply days earlier than the official reveal. Even when the images have 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” (through 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 entire scenario, however even nonetheless, I feel Kamiya takes the cake: “These rattling leakers are ready of accountability the place they’ve entry to info that solely a really choose few know, but what they do is nothing greater than an expression of a grimy want for approval that lacks a shred of rationality—they’re shameful folks. So it’s not the producers whose secrets and techniques have been uncovered who must be blamed, however these rattling folks, and so they have to be crushed as quickly as attainable.”
This can be a bit hyperbolic in locations—crushed is a robust phrase—however nearly each videogame dev has needed to suppose up methods to counteract the potential for leaks so I can perceive the frustration with the issue.
Simply final yr, former Bungie lead counsel defined how the studio managed to nail one in every of Future 2’s most notorious leakers. After a content material creator leaked some photos for clout, among the devs saved a watch on everybody who had seen the content material and managed to line up somebody’s icons on the backside of their display to those within the leaked photos. Whereas this stopped the creator from leaking any extra content material, that does not imply that the devs do not nonetheless should watch out.
A number of the largest leaks over the previous few years, aside from the Swap 2, embrace GTA 6’s trailer dropping a day earlier than it was meant to be launched, screenshots of the following Sims sport, Challenge Rene, and a fumble that noticed Sony unintentionally leak the entire of Future 2’s newest growth. Lengthy story quick, leaks are onerous to cease and appear simple to return by so, even with Kamiya’s curse looming, I doubt they’re going to cease.
