25th January 2006, 2:27 PM
Did you read the links I provided? That GA thread explains it too, but the Gamefaqs one has it too... the original source is that second link of mine. A Mexican site. It was posted on 12/28/05, which in Mexico evidently is a day like April Fool's Day -- "Dia de los Innocentes". Note the name of the "news item" on the page: "(INOCENTE :-) ) Silent Hill 5 saldrá en exclusiva para Nintendo Revolution." Then the first line, in English, is "It finishes it announcing Konami... But it is day 28 of December..." It starts wtih INOCENTE for a reason: to note that this is in fact a fake news item made for the 'holiday'. Just like April Fools Day news, it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28...bservances
Wikipedia:
The second site, which brought this up now, is a Brazillian magazine -- which evidently missed the fact that this was a made up news item and posted it as true a few days ago (several weeks after the original article). It's pretty clear that they took it from that article because the wording is exactly the same. Rumor spreads as supposed fact.
Now... I know, once in a while true news comes out on April Fools Day, from Japan or whatnot... it has happened before; I know Nintendo has announced things before on April 4th. But is that the case here, that this is real and just on that day? I think that the evidence points to almost certainly not. The title and first line of the original article just point too clearly to it being something they made up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28...bservances
Wikipedia:
Quote:Calendar of Saints - Feast of the Holy Innocents, a.k.a. Childermas, commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents on order of king Herod the Great. In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated in a manner similar to April Fool's Day.
The second site, which brought this up now, is a Brazillian magazine -- which evidently missed the fact that this was a made up news item and posted it as true a few days ago (several weeks after the original article). It's pretty clear that they took it from that article because the wording is exactly the same. Rumor spreads as supposed fact.
Now... I know, once in a while true news comes out on April Fools Day, from Japan or whatnot... it has happened before; I know Nintendo has announced things before on April 4th. But is that the case here, that this is real and just on that day? I think that the evidence points to almost certainly not. The title and first line of the original article just point too clearly to it being something they made up...
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