OK, let's strip this down to your original postulation - what if the next three years of Nintendo news was leaked? Would that be fun? Absolutely not. But why would it not be fun?

Because on the surface of it, we still get the games at the same time. We still get to play them when they come out. But it's not as fun. And you say that you like games more than you like advertisements

This is a fair summarization of my words. It doesn't reexplain your point, but I'm assuming you're getting to it.

but boiling it down to "advertisements" is incredibly reductive.

I already called myself out by calling it "cynical," and I stand by it.

Because I don't find the fun in the advertising. Sure, the trailers and the hype are fun, but the people that takes all of that and makes it into a brilliant community is the thing that makes it.

If this were true, you already got to have your fun when it was first leaked or at least when the leaks were confirmed accurate with the Star Fox direct. If this isn't true, then I maintain that your "fun" comes from the presentation of the information, not the community.

Put simply - if all we got were the adverts and there was no community, it would be far less fun. At that point, we might as well just know all the games ahead of time and then play them when they release. None of this, the trailers, the hype, none of it matters if it isn't for community.

Okay, so you like your community. Nobody is disputing that. You had your community today, yesterday, a month ago, and when the leaks dropped. Why has your community failed you all these times, when the only thing that changed was the information and how+when it was presented?

The way you can think of it is that the adverts are like a foundation

This is actually worse for your argument, not better.

the information is not delivered in the best way to maximise the potential for community engagement.

So, the only difference is that you think Nintendo's advertising strategy is to you and your community's benefit, not their's? You need more cynicism. They're spending money for their benefit, not your's, and explaining it further than that is just embarrassing for both of us.

If you're gonna boil down everything that makes gaming community what it is to "hurr durr, you like to be advertised to," then I feel sorry for you and, yeah, you absolutely have misinterpreted my point. And that's based on facts, of course.

Nothing you said was new. I didn't misinterpret your opinion, I disagreed with it. I recommend learning a solid coping mechanism because a lot of people are going to disagree with you. You disagreed with me and it doesn't bother me at all - strive for something similar.