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Originally posted by Bond
Hmm, not that reliable then. You gave the impression he was a Nintendo representative. I mean of course he is going to say Rare is going to develop for other consoles, because that is what his website reported and that is what he is paid to say. Great traffic drawer also.
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Not reliable? Umm... come again? You really don't know too much about the way things work do you?
IGNcube editors saw Mario Sunshine before SpaceWorld, months before. They are the ones responsible for having Ice Climbers in Super Smash Bros. Melee. They have seen Thornado footage, which was back in the day. And guess what? They've seen games we don't know are in development.
If you're a developer and want an opinion on your game, you go to people like Matt. They play and review every Gamecube game out on the market. They hear the fans criticism constantly. They know what people like and don't like. They get to play these games when we get an announcement.
Matt is very reliable, and he does this stuff all the time. Tiny little hints of things to come, tells you things they don't report. Matt is reliable, because he's without a doubt, the top Gamecube editor in the business. It's the way things work in the business, you call a PR representetive, they tell you what's going on, a lot of times stuff you can't publish yet because it's not official, like with Peter Main's retirement. Some other stuff isn't official, so they never publish it. Like with Retro's president taking company money to pay for prostitutes and stuff like that, and how Retro's management is entirely responsible for them not getting games done on time, but the rest of the team is actually quite talented.
Whether all this stuff actually happens or not in not known. Nothing is official, games get canceled and changed, plans change. But he's not pulling stuff out of his ass here, it's what he has heard, or part of what he has heard.