I have to ask a stupid question here, well a series of stupid questions but I don’t have access to the original article so….
Anyway: is the original Nikkei article an interview or just an article from them?
If yes, how is it that a possible to infer from an interview that this is Nikkei’s independent sources reporting things and that Nikkei knows something regarding the matter of new hardware releasing anytime soon
if it’s just an interview from the company?
If no, how come the western release is an interview but the original article is not an interview?
What reason is there to alter an articles format from not an interview to an actual interview later on?
And if it is an interview in both cases anyway, why are people believing an interview when this company as a whole has a rich history of lying in interviews multiple times and using an interview like this to look for anything on their future plans for the platform?
And finally, how come when Mochizuki tweeted that report and his own translation, very few people put it under scrutiny into what it is that he reported and took it at face value?
These are the same ones that
already question everything and anything Mochizuki says and look for a second or third opinion on it or straight up say he’s 100% wrong (they are in this forum too), but as soon as he said this one comment about no hardware which was apparently not correct mind you, how come they just jumped to the conclusion that he’s right this time but didn’t really question it like before?
No news outlet that has official actual translators seems to have read the full article to understand nuance in the language that was being translated and they simply reported seemingly based off of the tweet of one man rather than question “is this what that excerpt actually said”, is this not false reporting in a sense?