Jon Cartwright

**Jon Cartwright** (also known as **Jon GameXplain** under a previous employment) is a video game journalist largely known for his coverage of Nintendo. He was previously an employee at GameXplain, where he worked for years and quickly garnered a largely positive reception as one of its most prominent members. He left in September 2020 over various factors, including the birth of his first child, and till February 2022 had been employed by Nintendo Life. Along with these, he's also been a fairly regular user on ResetEra since its inception. Outside of his actual career as a journalist, he has garnered a reception among some in the Smash community as a leaker, despite massive evidence to the contrary. Jon left Nintendo Life on good terms and joined some of his old Gamexplain colleagues at Good Vibes Gaming. Jon originally gifted them this channel to create this project from a base of already keen Nintendo fans. Ever since they started Good Vibes Gaming they were keen on bringing Jon back and in November 2021 they started talks to do so which led to Jon joining at the start of February 2022.

In the past, certain SmashFAQs users have regarded him as a leaker due to him having supposed inside information. Despite him likely having occasional insider tidbits, this claim has largely been blown out of proportion due to him making a few correct calls in the past, such as a ton of *Final Fantasy* ports being announced for the Switch at once back in 2019. Even beyond this, he usually will do little more than drop hints when he has actual information on hand rather than leak it outright. This is further likened by him not wanting to endanger his employers' relations. Despite all of this, some have still fallen into the idea of considering him a leaker, particularly in communities like SmashFAQs. Perhaps the most notorious example is when a video uploaded to GameXplain became one of the main driving forces behind the largely baseless rumors of a KOS-MOS reveal at The Game Awards 2019 after Jon supported the idea of KOS-MOS being revealed as the next fighter at the show.

In somewhat of a sense of irony, he has shown distaste for actual leakers.[1] A notable example of this is when he claimed that Vergeben piggybacked off of him with rumors of a game titled *Star Fox Grand Prix*, despite the project never actually existing.[2]. He's even made fun of GameFAQs users before for actually believing that he's a leaker.[3]. Jon has been shown to have a playful sense of humor at times when it comes to Smash speculation, sometimes joking about certain characters joining or the absence of Smash news at certain events.[4] He actually seems to like going into Smash reveals without leaks beforehand, which is understandable as that will result in a more surprising and exciting reaction.[5]

## Trivia

* Unsurprisingly, there have been plenty of Smash-related predictions made by Jon in the past that have been completely false, which should be enough proof that the dude's not actually a leaker (even if it's sadly not in some cases).
	+ One of the funniest is the idea that Shadow the Hedgehog would get in *Ultimate* as a semi-clone of Sonic, with one of his moves being a missile launcher similar to Snake. This of course ended up being false, with Shadow once again returning as an Assist Trophy in the final game.