Xbox Pure was actually contaminated

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:53

Opinion and Analysis

After all, if you want total confirmation, even of a pic that looks absolutely authentic (unlike the sheet of paper in the CAG story), you need to wait for the company in question to make an official announcement.

Lots of rumours come from anonymous posters or tips to major sites, and a site like CAG posting a rumour in a blog is just as legitimate a place to post a rumour as any other.

All this will do is to get sites to quality their stories with a simple disclaimer, one that is usually posted anyway, that “XYZ” site is claiming “such and such” and here are the details, along with some blog-like commentary from the author in question and a warning it could be just another absolute fake.

News is news, and the news of Xbox Pure has turned into a story on how games sites get some of their stories, with the sting in the tail being that the CAG story was deliberately made up to see who’d fall for the bait.

Well, it’s no surprise that plenty of sites did. Mission accomplished, CAG, although sites will be very wary of believing your postings next time.

I’m sure they’ll still post what appear to be interesting stories, but once bitten, twice shy – CAG-sourced stories will have “disclaimers” on them if they’re printed at all, but if they are interesting enough, they will still get picked up by all and sundry.

I suppose what’s funny is that life is all just one big game, in which we all play, and if you needed any more proof, not everything you read on the Internet is true.

Like the story I heard about the Sony PS3.5 being released on November 30... haven’t you heard about it? I think I read it somewhere on CAG... :-)