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Back during E3 2018 some of you might remember photos like this popping up, with the threads being pulled shortly after. The leaker claimed to be part of Nintendo, and said they would come back with more when they could, when Nintendo wasn't watching. They were scared Nintendo would catch them. After a few threads they never posted again. Despite initial shock and confusion, the threads, photos, and topic, eventually fell into obscurity. People forgot all about it, writing it off as a hoax.


Reggie retired shortly after, and there is evidence that it was him trying to leak these out to the public. Unfortunately for him he got sniffed out by the big N before he could expose more of Nintendo's secrets. Who else but upper management could have access to these archived projects? It wasn't the sort of thing a programmer or middle management would be able to find.

Reggie supposedly retired, but I think its obvious that stunt was what made Nintendo force him to quit. they couldn't trust him anymore. He was a threat. Letting Reggie claim he was retiring is just Japanese business talk, professionalism, and politics. Firing Reggie would have made everyone involved look bad. He was their PR man, and everyone loved him. Trusted him. He was the "golden child."

Reggie tried to show us the fucked up experiments Nintendo were up to and how far they were willing to go to stay ahead of their competition. Ethics be damned. Sony and Microsoft has outperformed them for the last few years, and Nintendo's stock holders were threatening to pull out.

I don't know how far up the totem pole it goes, or if Miyamoto himself knew about it or not, but there were clearly powerful and wealthy men involved who were financing these failed amiibo projects. Gene splicing and genetic engineering aren't cheap. And they aren't the sort of thing your average game company can do on their own without outside help.

Reggie tried to warn us. Tried to show us something was wrong underneath the veneer.