A major Nintendo game is once again making waves in a surprising way. An unexpected leak is calling security flaws in the video game industry into question. No one is immune!
While the era of mascots in video games seems to be over since the PS2/Xbox years, Nintendo acts as irreducible in this matter. In addition to the famous mustachioed plumber, the Japanese console manufacturer and publisher brings together iconic characters. And many of them have the right to their own games. From then on, all Big N fans have their little favorite. For this reason, when a new iteration is talked about, expectations are immediately high. A few years ago, a game was leaked. Today, the rumors appear on the Internet due to an … unexpected leak!
This Nintendo game has leaked again, we didn’t expect it
In 2017, a big leak had announced the announcement of a brand new Yoshi video game. The leak concerned a trailer intended for E3 this year. Nothing was officially clarified after that. Although the title is not the same in the leaked images, we can possibly imagine that this project was nothing more than Yoshi’s Crafter Worldreleased on Nintendo Switch two years later.
Without warning, the leak recently resurfaced in a surprising way. In fact, a report from 404 Media reveals that Google subcontractors had shared information from a private Nintendo YouTube video. Obviously, this information was not intended to become public in this way.
In recent years, leaks have become more and more frequent in the video game industry. Even titles that are highly anticipated and that we would therefore expect to be extremely protected fall into this category. We will, of course, think of GTA 6, whose leaks led Rockstar Games to urgently attract attention and make drastic decisions.
In this case, the details of the Yoshi game were released before the announcement of the famous Crafted World. This type of event spoils the surprise for the players on the one hand and ruin months of work Planning, communication and marketing by numerous employees. Managing these risks is therefore becoming an even more important issue today, even for a company like Nintendo, which is known for its penchant for secrecy.
In addition, this new flaw in the production chain raises another problem… In fact, it is particularly surprising that this leak comes from a Google subcontractor. This shows that even trusted technology partners can be unreliable. Faced with these kinds of problems, even a giant like Nintendo is vulnerable. The case of the Yoshi game is a very telling example. It shows the growing tensions between Information protection and the public’s insatiable appetite for exclusive information.
