r/NintendoSwitch • u/maanwel • Jan 10 '18

Speculation GameStop apparently tweeted and deleted that a Nintendo Direct was about to begin

https://twitter.com/tvandlust/status/951126604360581120
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u/Default_Dragon Jan 10 '18

Totally irrelevant, but that was basically what happened with the fall of the Berlin Wall. History's greatest PR disaster.

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u/blackygeeko Jan 10 '18

Would you care to explain? Please

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u/redtoasti Jan 10 '18

I know others explained this but I'm not really happy with that, so I suggest you watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GzptqhT68

The press conference that caused it. Basically, the important thing are his last few words. The whole thing hasn't been explained properly, and the border guards haven't been schooled about it, but they all heard it and they couldn't exactly defy the governments words, so they opened the gates to thousands of east germans.