Bloomberg video game reporter Jason Schreier published an interesting article dealing with various high-profile video game leakers, and of course Pyoro is one of them. Pyoro has been a thorn in Nintendo’s backside in the past with his accurate leaks of information about Nintendo games before Nintendo Direct presentations. While he was uncharacteristically quiet in the build-up to the latest Nintendo Direct, he only teased a few smaller games and said he “didn’t expect many big announcements.” That was proven factually wrong after a Nintendo Direct presentation that included a number of heavy hitters planned for this year and beyond. In a conversation with Jason, Pyoro says that his source of information is a Nintendo employee in Japan who apparently has access to the company’s network backend. Here’s what the article says:
“No one knew Pyor’s identity or how they got the information, but as the account continued to predict new announcements with a perfect record, they attracted a large audience. The account has amassed more than 100,000 followers on X and inspired a number of threads on the massive gaming forum ResetEra.
But Pyoro was uncharacteristically quiet ahead of this week’s Nintendo Direct, saying that they I didn’t expect many big announcements. They were subsequently proven wrong when the company showed off new Mario, Zelda and Metroid games. People wondered: How could a bill with a perfect batting average suddenly go so wrong?
Then came the twist. Several observers — led by a ResetEra poster named dgamemaster — began to understand that unlike previous announcements, these new surprises didn’t have preset websites in Nintendo’s store. They followed the breadcrumbs and realized that Pyoro’s previous leaks involved games that were supposed to be published on Nintendo’s website as soon as they were announced. Games that were only put in stores after the Nintendo Direct they did not leak Pyoro in advance.
Pyoro appeared to have access to Nintendo’s web backend, and account information was limited to what was available there.
I reached out to Pyor to try and clear this up. They told me in direct messages that their source works for Nintendo of Japan, “but I’m not sure how they get their information” and that “the background theory is a reasonable guess.”
Pyoro is just the latest mystery whisperer to be knocked off his pedestal in recent weeks.”
