Hunchman801 wrote:Am I the only one to find such accurate information (such as the price, the localisation, etc.) extremely suspicious as we know absolutely nothing about the game? The time of the year and the fact that no French or English-speaking media has relayed the information makes it sounds like a good old April Fool.
This wasn’t an official press release designed to convey key information; to me it sounds like this guy was just running his mouth. If he was talking informally, without a script, it’s only natural that he’d come out with an eclectic collection of details. He’s the director of Ubisoft Brazil, and it was a Brazilian event, so it’s not so strange that most of the information he revealed was Brazil-centric. If it’s an April Fools’ Day joke, it’s a very strange one.
As for the gaming media’s reticence at reporting this, I expect it’s due to the language barrier. The people at the English Kotaku probably don’t read the Brazilian one, and even if they did, they might have misinterpreted this news item as a joke. It can take a lot to convince these people sometimes; I remember getting lambasted by the commenters on Destructoid a couple of years ago, when I tried to tell them that Michel Ancel was working on a new 2D Rayman game. The media will pick up the story when they’re ready.
It should also be noted that the Brazilian Kotaku posted the story on the 30th of March, not the 1st of April.