Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:46AM from the sensing-a-theme-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes: You may not have heard of Chris Pranger before, but he's one of the localizers that works to bring Nintendo games over to the west. He recently talked about the localization process for a small podcast, providing Nintendo fans some details about how games make it from Japan to the western world. Nintendo's response to the fan interest in the game localizing process? They fired him, of course. It's unclear what statements in specific Nintendo objected to and Nintendo, so far, hasn't explained its decision.

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I don't get Nintendo. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-13 08:51 · Score: 0, Troll

As in, I don't understand how they haven't gone belly-up since everything N64 and afterward was a complete and utter shit show. From their seeming lack of ability to embrace modern technology, to the sending teams of lawyers after people for posting game footage on youtube, I don't understand how such a toxic company can remain in business after giving everyone, including their employees a big "fuck you".