Mario & Luigi: Brothership Has Reportedly Leaked Online

Oops… crazy that this keeps happening.

Mario is too busy partying, racing karts, starring in movies and everything else now and doesn’t have time to stop up the leaks!

Bloody hell Nintendo need to get on top of this

In other news, the sky is blue.

This is so early, spoilers are probably out there so I guess it's already time to watch out.

If Nintendo isn't allowing pre-orders for Amazon US because of it arriving to some people 1-2 days early, I think Nintendo has bigger problems to deal with.

Not even reportedly. I have the file and have been playing it.

(And before people get mad, I’m still buying the physical version. I support devs)

You’d think a plumber would be skilled at stopping leaks

Not much Nintendo can do about physical copies leaking early, since it's out of their hands at that point. Happens to most non Nintendo games too.

I truly and unironically appreciate this 🙏🏽 I love leaked games.
They help me determine if I wanna spend $60 USD on a game or not.

I need to find out where these people are getting their games from.

If I had a nickel for every time a major nintendo game got leaked I'd probably be a millionnare at this point.

The pro to all of this is finding out who actually made the dang thing.

Quelle surprise. I’m more surprised when major games aren’t leaked beforehand at this point.

Just hope that the game is good. Especially considering that it barely has any of the old staff working on it.

Nintendo's approach to leakers and their attempt to stop it is starting to look about as successful as the war on drugs at this point.

Does this happen to every game but you only report the Nintendo published ones? Or is Nintendo uniquely attacked on this front?

It is normal, after all this leaks happens because Nintendo start to distribute the physical game earlier to a lot of shops. As usual, this will have no impact on the sales.

If they got an early copy and manage to leak it online then it's likely they are closer to Nintendo than Nintendo may think.

@N00BiSH Did you not read the article? It’s Acquire (a Japanese studio responsible for Octopath Traveler).

@Shepdawg1 I'm talking about the specific names and roles of the development team, which can be seen here

Huh. More leaks? Shame Mario isn't a plumber anymore. Bowser did always hate plumbers. (In the cartoons)
So uh, Nintendo needs a plumber now.

Also, is there any switch first party title this hasn't happened to?

Very sad that this keeps happening and that leakers keep getting away with it. But unfortunately that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

NL announces leaked pirated release of major new game, half of the readers disappear to find leaked game online. 😖

I don't even have the time to play all of the new and old games I already have ... while other people are playing games ahead of being released ... we each live in a different world XD

This is the sort of thing that makes Nintendo kill emulators. then people on Reddit moan about it. Maybe don't leak games online before they release and we can have nice things.

"(Insert game title here) Has Reportedly Leaked Online".

Yeah a few Russian sites had the rom last night and i verified it worked

@Archius9

are you implying that the many people enjoying emulators are the same people that leak nintendo games?

The more this keeps happening the more the prices from these places will go up, for every penny they spend fighting this is put onto the price the consumers pay. Or maybe think of the reason companies want to go digital or streaming services, yep you can can pretty much guarantee that these hacks lead to these conversations.

@-wc- Not at all. I am someone who enjoys emulating games.
But leaking games is a big reason as to why emulators are legally targeted by Nintendo, and probably wouldn’t be as much if games weren’t leaked early.

@Archius9

ok, from your wording I couldnt quite tell. ✌️ I think you are correct, that Nintendo sees a connection between leaked games an emulators, but its a bit like trying to shut down the roads so people dont park in fire lanes, right?

I won’t have this game for a while, so I gotta avoid spoilers somehow.

@Yalloo Nah, I am in the same boat haha, not enough time.

So there's only one way that any game gets "leaked". It's obviously an employee at Nintendo or the studio working on the games. It's not that hard to investigate and punish the person or persons accordingly. Set an example.

It has....can confirm it's working perfect on RyuJinx. Haven't tried on Yuzu yet.

Major Question: Which Mario & Luigi game hasn’t had Bowser as the final boss in some shape or form? Also, would you count Shrowser as a final boss or just an interactive cutscene?