I Was Wrong
Someone once said ” That it takes a real man to admit he has made a mistake” I don’t know who that someone was but I guarantee you that he had bigger balls than Stephen Colbert. Earlier this month I reported on a story I read in the April issue of EGM. The story indicated that Square Enix and BunaVista were making another entry into the Kingdom Hearts series starring Mario along with a slew of other Nintendo characters. Word has finally come out of the evil Ziff empire I mean EGM’s SF offices that the story is 100% completely NOT true. As I stated before I shall now apologize.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry for reporting a joke as fact even though it came from a credible source. I am not sorry for making the post in the first place however. This story has introduced many new readers to Wii Rally and spurred a debate that was at one point quite interesting and fun but that debate slowly degraded into a fight between the optimistic and the unfaithful. Too all those readers who were really hoping for this to be true I’m sorry I mislead you but your real beef is with EGM not me.
As a blog and a fairly new one at that it is very difficult to get news items that haven’t been reported on a thousand times. Nintendo isn’t exactly calling me day and night asking me to write about their newest game in fact all emails that I have sent to game publishers have gone unanswered that is except in the case of Thrustmaster. (thanks for the stuff guys) But still I try everyday to find something unique and interesting to write about.
So I got a news item wrong it happens all the time but at least I can be honest with all of you out there in Nintendo land instead of covering up stories that may refute an earlier story like a certain Australian owned news network (cough*Fox News*cough).
I hate news anyway it’s boring to find and dull to write no wonder most other sites out there just copy and paste press releases a level I refuse to steep to. If this means you will never read Wii Rally again then I am sorry you feel that way but go with grace. But those of you who can forgive an inexperienced yet passionate journalist then stick around because I’m just getting started.
If you still believe that Mushroom Kingdom Hearts is happening listen to the first 5 minutes of this weeks EGM* Live Podcast
March 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
It’s alright, it happens to the best of us. March/April is always a tricky month for video game news. I really don’t know when it was decided that game companies can tease us and joke with us just because it’s April Fool’s. That’s why anything that seems to good to be true, I don’t post it. I rather get my rep up as an honest journalist who posts facts than get hits to my site, but at the same time, take a hit for posting false news.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
We all make mistakes, I myself have unintentally posted false news to a forum, and apologised later for it.
The bottom line is that you’ve stood up and admitted you were wrong like a professional, The only ones who arent being professional here is EGM and their silly little jokes..
there isnt need for any gloating or put downs here, lets pick up and move on. I’m sure there is plenty of more True Wii news to come from you tim.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Hey, at least you’re man enough to post that you were wrong…
…but what’s with the poorly photoshop tear? Couldn’t you have actually cried to make it look real? I mean come on! I feel cheesed out here!