What does teasing this result in, if this is actually fake? Bad PR for TX, because they’ll be seen as liars? Shady as they may be, no company wants to generate bad publicity from not delivering on a product. It’s not like their sales will surge on SX licenses cuz people are going to buy before a product is shown.
As “shilling” at this seems, what makes this different from EA posting a cup with steam billowing out of it? And sites reporting on it? Or any other tease from any other game company to ever exist? How is this different from a rumor of a new Batman Arkham game existing, according to a few anon sources?
I got the same email that came from the OP, a few hours after Gary posted the thread.
TX has taken the time to demonstrate China Distrib some of their work in progress. Notably for 'patched' and 'mariko' units which is very advanced, and works flawlessly. We are not able to take orders yet as they did not confirm prices yet - but knowing TX we know the price will be very reasonable -. We also saw early beta for Switch Lite. Next few weeks or months we should be able to hack 100% of existing Switch consoles, which is good news. They have put online a tool to know which product you will need for your console:
What good would this company lying do for them? It won’t drive up their sales. It won’t really corral enough people to their site to check the validity of the statement, since it came from a newsletter.
Should the title be a bit more ambiguous? Yes. “SX retailer claims that new hack method for patched/lite Switch systems exist” or “TX supposedly has an exploit in the works for patched Switch consoles” etc etc.
I hate reporting on rumors, and I dislike when there’s no way to officially source something, but it’s not like this is completely unrelated to a large bulk of people visiting GBAtemp. There is genuine speculation. Is it real? Is it fake. What could this be? When will it happen? How did they do it? People interested in hacking their switch would definitely want to know that this is something potentially happening.
Yes, garyopa links to maxconsole. Yes, it comes off as him trying to generate clicks for his site. So? It’s clear by the fact he got the early email from the retailer and from all his other TX posts, he clearly has ties and contacts, and can easily get the information before anyone else. Information is a commodity, and he’s chosen to link back to his site in exchange for this early info. It is weird that now of all times we’re going off a Chinese reseller, but maybe that’s the way TX wanted to play it off. Who knows until we know more?
Regardless, this is interesting. And clearly people wish to discuss it, considering how many replies there are to the topic.