Bad news for impatient Nintendo players: leaker Pyoro has left social media after being tricked. The Kyoto firm can, however, congratulate itself on this feat. It had been a year now since the Internet user with the characteristic profile picture revealed a number of surprises ahead of the manufacturer's presentations. By stringing together correct predictions, Pyoro quickly built a community of loyal followers in search of anticipated revelations. Last week's Nintendo Direct was therefore shaping up to be a prime target for the leaker. Unsurprisingly, the lack of statements from him in the week leading up to the presentation did not go unnoticed.
“Don't expect too much,” he declared on X (formerly Twitter) the day before the conference. No major leaks this time around, as followers had to make do with an emoji riddle and information about Metal Slug and Ace Attorney Investigations. But Pyoro’s warning about upcoming content ultimately worked against him. By revealing new titles from cult franchises like Mario & Luigi, Zelda, and even Metroid, Nintendo managed to protect its major announcements. This failure on the part of the leaker did not fail to raise suspicions about the source of his information. That’s when users on the ResetEra forum managed to identify a recurring pattern in his predictions: a discovery that began his precipitous fall.
Early access to the website’s data
The theory launched by a user named “dgamemaster” did not fail to ignite the powder keg. Noting that only the web pages for Metal Slug and Ace Attorney were posted shortly after their presentation, the user concluded that Pyoro was getting his information from the “backend” of Nintendo’s official website, which his source certainly had access to. Further investigation revealed that all of the past leaks were indeed related to games whose web pages appeared in parallel with a Nintendo Direct.
It didn’t take long for the leaker to spill the beans. When questioned by Jason Schreier of Bloomberg via private message on X, Pyoro admitted that his source works for Nintendo in Japan but that he doesn’t know “how she gets her information” before adding that “the backend theory is a reasonable hypothesis”. This information revealed by Schreier caught the leaker off guard, who seemed convinced of the journalist's discretion. "Wtf, I didn't think he was going to include my answers in his report" could be read in a now-deleted tweet.
The absence of anticipated web pages for the latest major announcements suggests that Nintendo has managed to understand and anticipate the leaker's method. Pyoro’s fall was then accompanied by a post from Nintendo Japan announcing the opening of applications for a network services development position. Could it be that the Kyoto firm has already discovered the employee behind the backend leaks? Unsurprisingly, Internet users did not fail to interpret this information as such.
One thing is for sure: future Nintendo Directs should be spared from massive leaks now that the biggest leaker has been taken in. Or at least until another form of source emerges.
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