Topic: Breaking News -- Nintendo Cuts Over 300 Staff

(And It begins) Well today get more interesting, it appears that Nintendo Of Europe is going to cut off 300 jobs at the end of the month. Its sad to see people lose their job.

Link:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/29/nintendo-cuts-over-300...

That is too bad

Yeah its too bad for the people who work at Nintendo.

Nintendo states that it felt it necessary to release a number of agency workers who had been employed in translation and testing activities, looking to “increase flexibility and cost-efficiency in the long-term."

Agency workers don't count as employees do they ?

Sheesh that sucks hopefully everyone can get back on their own feet as quickly as possible.

And too bad for the European audience, may take slightly longer to localize some games now

I think its something to worry about when a company that big do lay-offs.

“increase flexibility and cost-efficiency in the long-term." So much for that $8 billion in that bank huh??

What begins? The end of time? Doom and gloom for Nintendo?

NOE is moving their headquarters from Großostheim to Frankfurt, they're moving everything into one single building, meaning they can work more efficiently. 130 jobs are cut because of this, I'd imagine a lot of those people worked in the transportation business between the locations. Another 190 temporary workers are laid off as well, due to Nintendo planning on working closer together with more third-party companies in the near future. I don't see the problem, 310 people are going to lose their job, too bad for them, but if anything, this allows NOE to work a lot more efficient in the future.

Jesus... I love how Nintendo try overshadow the bad news with rain from the heaven good news. Gotta love that practice.

Sarcasm aside, (Somewhat.) Nintendo of Europe has been treating there customers with endless generosity (as oppose to Nintendo of America.) and yet, they cutting 320 jobs? Is it because of the increased localization? Or maybe the obvious poor Wii U sales? Or......what?

I'll leave this to you as at least someone has sense plus we knew about this since June just ended up being more jobs lost then originally thought which is sad but a part of business, hopefully those people find new jobs soon.

Significant changes in business in any way lead to job losses, which sucks but people sometimes over-react. I remember when Naughty Dog cut some of their staff but then when they rehired them, no one brought that part up.

According to German labor laws, agency workers are employees of the agency only, no contracts signed with the end-employer. So while they work for Nintendo they are not actually their employees, just hired guns.

Bummer for the 300.

I find it ridiculous that every news site has jumped on reporting this, and while my condolences go out to those that have lost their job, the reality is that this kind of thing feeds the wrong image that Nintendo is battling...

Instead, I suggest we all just spend some time looking at: https://twitter.com/jobsatnintendo

Sparta has fallen. Being serious, this is sad for those affected. Here's to new employment opportunities for their former workers.

There have been far worse scenarios than this. At least it's not a "(insert game here) didn't sale so we're closing 10 of our studios and firing a thousand people" scenario.

It happens all the time folks. This is simply a consolidation within a company.

As if that wasn't a problem already. It's only gonna get worse from now on