Nintendo don't really seem to have a global mentality.

They seem to focus mostly in Japan and somewhat in the US. I think this is one of the main reasons they do badly in Europe, where they often outsource shipping, publishing, etc. to other companies. I wish they put more of an effort in those markets.

Not sure if you are serious or not, but Germany suffers from unemployment like all Europe. Let me not start about this country!

well thats true, but most of those people are old or dropped out of school early, we dont have jobs for lowskilled workers. but if u have any skills getting a job isnt hard.germany has a need for skilled labor while it has a unemployment problem. 

As I have said on other sites:

"temporary workers"

meaning, they were not permanent staff to begin with and they knew and went into the job knowing that their jobs would not last long term. So really, these "cuts" were going to happen sooner or later just by the nature of the contract signed. I don't know why it is such a shock that 190 people who only had temporary positions got laid off.

Also to those saying it is hypocriticle, it's not. They talked against it last year for people who actually had permanent positions which would have been thought to be a stable job, that got told that they were done. This is not the same thing exactly. The people here knew their jobs would end at a certain point and now it has gotten to that point.

That's the only issue that could come from this news. I wonder if the quality of the localisation would lower after outsourcing.

well nonpermanent stuff is normal in germany, much cheaper than regular staff.  it not a temporary solution most of the time.

What worries me is that localisation takes longer or localisation doesn't happen at all for certain titles. It could also mean that Nintendo feels the western european population have strong enough english skills that they dont need to translate games to german/italian/french and so on.