Nintendo is working to strengthen its security and IT training following recent reports of how important announcements removed from YouTube’s backend before major directs. The recognition of the efforts to protect internal information from being published by external actors comes at a time when the video game industry’s leaker scene immersed in a strange drama.
During the annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, Nintendo was asked about the recent reports of 404 Media and others on privacy issues at Google, according to comments transcribed by Twitter user NStyles And translated by VGC. The reported incidents included mentions of an employee gaining access to the Yoshi’s designed world Trailer from the backend of YouTube before the game was officially announced for Switch. A separate report from Insider Gaming found further incidents and confirmed that many major gaming leaks were due to data uploaded early to YouTube’s backend and accessed by contractors.
Accordingly VGCNintendo confirmed the reports and said the company is using third-party security firms, new security measures and employee training to fix the issues surrounding the leaks. It doesn’t sound like the Switch maker has gone into detail about how it’s plugging the leaks, but fans have been speculating about what steps Nintendo is taking since the recent meltdown of an online gaming leaker last week.
Online user Pyoro was one of the last remaining leakers who seemed to have at least occasional solid sources of information, but they were surprisingly thin ahead of the big Nintendo Direct in June, where the company surprisingly revealed a ton of first-party projects, including a brand new Mario & Luigi RPG and a top-down The Legend of Zelda with a playable princess in the lead role. The message contradicted Pyoro’s vague expectations in advance and seemed to expose her as someone who did not have the necessary information.
As Bloomberg At the time, fans reported that unlike previous Nintendo Directs, many of the announced games were not immediately available via store pages on the eShop, suggesting that backend data from these listings may have been part of how Pyoro had obtained his information. The leaker then took the incredibly odd step of leaking his own source to Bloombergstating that the source was a Nintendo employee in Japan and that the “backend theory is a reasonable guess” as to where this person got their information. Even more surprisingly, Pyoro later suspended their account after they stated that they did not expect their comments to a reporter to be included in a news article.
The store pages for the games announced last week have only recently gone online, including the page with the unexpected $60 bonus for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. It’s possible that this is one of the steps Nintendo is taking to crack down on leaks, alongside potentially changing how it works with video hosting services like YouTube. We’ll have a better sense of how these strategies work when and if we not Stay tuned for future announcements, including likely launch games for Switch 2.
Meanwhile, the video game leaker scene is still in shambles. Midori, another mysterious leaker, was recently revealed to be a well-known persona Fan poses as a mysterious Japanese womanUntil a new hero appears, superfans, like everyone else, will just have to wait for the corresponding press releases.
