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I'm conflicted here. On one side: GOOD. On the other: we've seen with other cases where either long embargoes or outright refusing to send the product to reviewers/media usually means that the product is kinda bad, and the seller wants to trick consumers into overspending for crap.
Nintendo has a decent track record for delivering good products, but these days you can never be too sure.

@alyx I think it's simply Nintendo rightfully snubbing journos. I keep saying it, but journos absolutely ruined Nintendo's reputation years ago and then snubbed them hardcore with the Wii and gave them massive bad publicity which also coincide with them starting to do the Direct. Realistically, Nintendo doesn't need the journos, they're as irrelevant as ever

Saw a comment somewhere that also has a good point: That as it stands right now, it's selling out anyways and you'll have a hard time finding it. What's the point of advertising hard early when nobody can get it? The journos can get it at the same time as everyone else, it literally does not matter

On the other hand, a product being so "hot" you can't get it easily ends up being more desirable as a result. It's cancer, but it is what it is. So I dunno

@coolboymew
The way I see it, the best move would have been: snub traditional journos, but find alt-media reviewers, streamers, tech YouTubers, and seed the console to them. Complete blackout can leave people distrustful. Not trusting traditional journalists is understandable. But still find a way to show some transparency about your product before it gets in the hands of consumers.

@alyx @coolboymew doesn't help that the switch 2 already sounds like it's gonna suck. But mew is right Nintendo doesn't need journos their fans will eat any slop they release.
@coolboymew @alyx A lot of the game journos and soy people temporarily did a 180 on Nintendo after the Switch became such a monster hit. Ironically, Kotaku was the one outlet to stick to its anti-Nintendo guns, this culminating in them straight up encouraging people to pirate Metroid Dread. I believe Nintendo blacklisted them after that, which was WAAAY overdue.
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