Leaks, leaks & more leaks. Lets discuss it.

Master Disaster · December 8, 2019

I will start with 2 examples...

1) We have already seen the 5500XT

2) We already know that Zen 3 is coming in 2020

Those are 2 two I could think of right now. These days it seems like leaks are pretty much guaranteed with any new product, its not uncommon for us to know everything weeks before an official announcement happens.

I'm interested in hearing opinions on whether you think this is a good thing or not. Does it help us to know things? Does it hurt the manufacturers? Should they start releasing information earlier to try and curb the leaks? What is the benefit of secrecy at all?

Both Microsoft & Sony seem to drip feeding information about next gen consoles officially and in my opinion that's helping them. It makes them seem more transparent and consumer friendly. In the case where its almost impossible to keep things a secret what's the point of wasting money even trying? Heck the slow drip feeding seems to be increasing hype if anything.

I think we're at the point where manufacturers should be telling us information about upcoming products sooner than they do. Its almost inevitable that someone will leak something so they may as well get out ahead and do it themselves.

Interestingly it seems as though Nvidia are immune from leaks, only recently we had the Super announcement which nobody knew was coming until they dropped the teaser.

Thoughts? Opinions?

F Ahmed · December 8, 2019

If a company secretly wants to take over another company without them having time for preparing, leaks are bad. If AMD wants to overtake Nvidia and start preparing and Nvidia finds out, they have time to make something better which in my opinion is unfair

Arika · December 8, 2019

i don't like "leaks", most of the time it sets an unrealistic expectation and when the product is actually announced it doesn't meet the (unrealistic) expectations that people have made up about said product. Hence why i disregard most leaks, i might comment on them, but i never assume it is real.

just like this leak for the PS4