How long does it take for a rumour to spread?
“How long is a piece of string?” Should be the answer you give back. In the last couple of days I have seen report after report about how the Sega Saturn could be coming to the Wii’s Virtual Console.
Yes! Great news huh? Well it was….last year.
Last year RumorReporter.com got the ball rolling with a lovely article on how “a DigiPen employee told him (a friend) that Sega Saturn games would indeed be making an appearance on the Wii” For those that don’t know DigiPen and Nintendo of Americas offices are actually inter- connected by a hallway. So this could quite possibly be true.
But, as I say, RumorReporter posted this ‘news’ up last year. Check the date. Dec 11th.  Next day Dec 12th 2006 (my birthday!) NintendoEvolved.com posted up the same report- quoting RumorReporter.
Skip forward 3 or 4 months and suddenly this is now the weeks big news! I’m not sure how it has started, but someone re-leaked the information, which has started a whole new ball rolling. Site after site have been quoting one another, as though this is brand new information. Yet when it all comes down to it, the trail runs cold around CrunchGear.com’s report -dated March 16th 2007. CrunchGear link to the very article NintendoEvolved posted up way back in December last year.
Whether CrunchGear made a mistake is unknown (mainly because I havem’t asked them) - but it is possible. I’m not going to hold it against them. If anything I praise them. If they are the ones that re-posted the information first, then they managed to get several fairly large gaming blogs to copy their news, namely; CodnameRevolution, and Joystiq.com. When a larger site who pays their staff (I’m looking at you Joystiq) to write news, starts spreading old rumours around, then it’s not good for gamers or gaming as many gamers and even smaller site writers look to them for breaking news.
The good news is that RumorReporter.com have come up with a lovely new theory that could prove this all to be true! But at the same time it could also ruin another recently reported rumour surrounding NiGHTS for the Wii.
Best to start reading these new rumours and not go about listening to ones from last year, they will only confuse you.
Tags: Fan Sites, Fan Stuff, Rumor MillRelated Stories
POSTED IN: G, News, Nintendo Wii, Retro
1 opinion for How long does it take for a rumour to spread?
Chris
Mar 17, 2007 at 5:10 am
We posted this story Dec. 12.
http://www.seganerds.com/2006/12/12/is-the-saturn-coming-to-the-virtual-console/
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