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Frogger on 29 August 2014

Yeah. Pretty hypocritical.



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WhiteEaglePL on 29 August 2014

Hypocritical but it's restructuring for a greater good.

THEY NEED EUROPEAN STUDIOS THOUGH!!!!!



Fusioncode on 29 August 2014

Well WiiU is bombing in Europe. Not surprised.



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Scoobes on 29 August 2014

Note what Iwata said before:

Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata had spoken out against layoffs in the past. "If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease," he said during an investor call in July of 2013. "I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world."

They barely have any developers in Europe so I doubt they care as much. If they were developers and creative leaders, the restructure probably wouldn't have affected them. The actual game developers shouldn't have to worry.

This obviously sucks for the people that lost their jobs though.




Get your Portable ID!

WhiteEaglePL on 29 August 2014
Fusioncode said:
Well WiiU is bombing in Europe. Not surprised.


Still doing better than the X1 over there



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TreeTurtle on 29 August 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
Fusioncode said:
Well WiiU is bombing in Europe. Not surprised.


Still doing better than the X1 over there


this



nice

Squeezol on 29 August 2014

Hypocrite Nintendo returns? :(



AZWification on 29 August 2014

Anyone can be a hypocrite from time to time! Heck,  I was a hypocrite myself when Rol got banned yesterday!



                
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Incubi on 29 August 2014

So NOE will be doing European localisation by using contractors instead of using in-house personnel?



Mr Puggsly on 29 August 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
Fusioncode said:
Well WiiU is bombing in Europe. Not surprised.


Still doing better than the X1 over there

Not really. The Wii U has been on the market longer, is bundled with its best selling game, yet the gap is only about 460K in Europe.

The X1 easily took the US from Wii U and it'll take Europe as well. FIFA 15 should help make that happen.



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