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They're both equally complicated in different ways, imo. Hear me out.It’s far, far more complicated than the banner leak ever was.
Somehow the Grinch leaker knew the name of an individual who worked at a printing company in France that was doing the promotional material for the new Grinch movie. They also mysteriously had pictures of the workshop, had the items placed with Grinch materials "suspiciously" in the shot, had a blank version of the banner that was later found to have only been used on a screen display at E3, and given how they were able to move the characters around on the banner, they had access to the individual character portraits. That's the big assumptions of that leak and that would have taken a remarkable amount of time and effort to make come together.
With the Mii hats, we once again have a remarkable amount of time and effort, just on a technical front instead of a more traditional one.
No one doubts they have contacts at Nintendo and everyone knows they're in Nintendo's pocket. It was mentioned earlier in the thread, but there were other videos about the Grinch leak in which the presenter basically said "look I know it's fake because my sources tell me it's fake and these guys are right about everything". GameXplain offers no such assurance, just their opinion that we're supposed to take as gospel based on some really shaky evidence. I think it's fair to assume that if they've been given information that it's fake, someone on some level that someone like Sabi is contact with, or VRPlant, should be able to outright state that it's a fake, just like with the Grinch leak.They pretty much "leaked" most of the stuff in the September direct last year, including the FF ports and Isabelle as a playable character. They did it in the guise of a "prediction".
They are a VERY Nintendo-centric channel, so it wouldn't be surprising if they have a contact way higher up in Nintendo. This can be seen when they correctly hint at a unrevealed direct coming soon, by tweeting ominous things.
That said, they have also gotten things wrong in the past; but they never "leak" stuff, they only state it as "predictions".
Edit: Before anyone mentions that they got the ESRB leak wrong; It is important to know that this was when they were still a relatively minor channel, and no where near as big as they are today.