Treehouse Veteran Erik Peterson Is Leaving Nintendo After 13 Years

What was the reason that he left Nintendo?

Really not into this guy, but its upsetting to see a familiar face go like that.

Who?

While Erik will be missed, I do wish Erik a good future and get to do more things he like :+).

Good luck Erik Peterson.

For a split second, I thought the headlining photo was of that guy from The Big Bang Theory. Then I feared I erroneously wandered into "Shows I Hate With A Passion" instead of NintendoLife. But, nope! You're right. I remember this guy now! Well, first of all, Erik, I apologize for my hasty mistake, and good luck with your future endeavors.

@MagicEmperor There has to be something wrong with you, if you hate The Big Bang Theory. The show is fantastic!

But yes, it's sad to see Erik going. Hope he gets a job he deserves in whatever area of industry he wants to be a part of.

@KoopaTheGamer How so? This show started out as a clever show for people who had some knowledge in science and were into gaming/comic books. What became of it? A relationship simulator who dealt with topics everyone has already seen in other sitcoms. This show is just a disappointing mess which is a shame cause I absolutely loved the first few episodes

Does this mean there is a job opening for me now? I'd LOVE to work with fellow Nintendo gamers.

I have no clue who this guy is.

@Socar INB4 Fire Emblem localization jokes?

Noooooooooo. My treehouse boyfriend. Noooooooooo

Can somebody direct me to some videos he's in?

@ALinkttPresent other than treehouse live, all I remember him doing is the sploosh sound effect for windwaker hd. Bill made a joke like, I don't always listen to sound effects, but when I do, I hear them live. I think that was a memes joke.

@Kalmaro You obviously don't watch Nintendo Directs or Treehouse videos.

@3MonthBeef It's a typo. Give me a break haha. I'll correct it so I'll stand a better chance of getting the job...

Uh oh, I have a feeling @AyeHaley will be disappointed.

Never heard of the guy, but that's probably because I'm European. Ah well, good luck to him. :]

@ricklongo Yeah, that's the only reason I know who this guy is, Ayehaleys obsession during the live stream comments. Back to all Shrek all the time now I suppose.

Didn't really know the guy before, but still, I wish him the best of luck.

@rjejr Awe crap, now I'm going to see Trump in my dreams......oh wait!

I'm wondering if there's more to this? We've had the recent firing, that one guy leave on not so good terms (Adelman I believe his name was), and there's some rumblings of another tree house member in Twitter as of late.

@Spoony_Tech Should I ask what kind of dreams those are?

@Ralizah I choose not to comment at this time.....

@rjejr Talking about obsessions: our friend from the creepy Illuminati videos has received a cease and desist from Nintendo in the form of a take down order on several of his videos.

Wonder what's up with that? One of the vids was a leak of upcoming 3DS games, so I can imagine that one, but the others were pure speculation concerning NX. Make of that what you will, but in this instance I would like to draw the "where there is smoke" card...

@TheRealThanos The illuminati took down the illuminati guy? Somebody call Jesse Ventura and get to the bottom of this NX conspiracy pronto.

@rjejr Maybe rustle up some of his former wrestling buddies and do a tag team body slam on Reggie...

Bye Erik Peterson; I hope you really didn't get fired for spilling the beans to MetalDave64 on Nintendo's lineup this year, you TreeHouse secret revealer. Leaving without letting anyone know where you're going and without a clear next step in life sounds kind of fishy to me, especially with all the leaks going on in Nintendo lately.

@Spoony_Tech I spent half an hour trying to come up w/ a new avatar this morning after I woke up and went - "gaaah what have I done" but so far no luck. Do you think an "INRI" scroll would be offensive? It's currently on the - if I have to ask, then it probably is - list.

@abbyhitter treehouse no but I've seen every direct

@TheRealThanos No, for Reggie we're calling in the former SEAL buddies.

@Zach777 Would be quite a bombshell if these two things are connected. Dave never revealed his source.

Erik was awesome. He put a lot of great effort into the Treehouse, especially at the last couple of E3s. He has also appeared a few times on Nintendo Minute as well as hosting the Super Mario Maker live stream on YouTube the day before its launch. I will miss him.

@rjejr Ouch, I'd like to see them going up against the Regginator. Make it a bit more of a fair fight. But you're probably quite busy with super Tuesday right now...

P.S.

As for the INRI scroll: I'd DEFINITELY not go there...
Just go back to your previous one, or the one before that: not the Roddy Piper one, but the regular avatar you had before that.

Personally, I never understood the need to keep switching avatars. I choose one and I stick by it: it's an extension of me and I don't change myself either.

Aww man gutted I like this guy very cool and professional wish you luck Erik for the future, Nintendo and fans will miss you.

Why would you leave Nintendo Treehouse? Why? :/

@rjejr Well, nice to meet you. Queue the Illuminati again: take the second letter from the alphabet at the end of your name there, and exchange it for the second one from the end of the alphabet, and you'll have my name as well.

Never saw that movie, maybe I'll have a peek, in between all the busy hours and deciding if I want to start watching The X-Files or not...

Just out of curiosity: what does rjejr stand for? My name on NLife is probably pretty self-explanatory, but I'll explain anyway. I had the name Thanos as a tag for years and years, even WAY before there was ever any internet, and on Arcade cabinets I used a three letter abbreviation.

Then the internet came, and I was a bit slow on the uptake, only getting interested in registering on forums and game sites a couple of years later. (or maybe that also had something to do with a dial up modem) In any case, once I wanted to start using "my" name online, I kept getting "that user already exists, try another name" or the name with a number behind it and similar suggestions, up to Thanos337895.

At some point I decided to not want to be Thanos the umpteenth, hence the prefix "TheReal" for lack of a better solution.

On some other sites I use ThanosRexxx, as in "King of all Thanosses", as it should be. Second only to the Marvel one...
(talking about personality issues, aye?)

@rjejr

Look lad: I am very fond of you and your posts. Common sense and humour a rare commodities. And I get the no identity thing (i am aka Annie, btw). As someone with diagnosed bipolar disorder I get that too.

But I am begging you to ditch the avatar. It's bad enough seeing that gob everywhere else. NL needs to be a safe zone. I cannot keep hurling on my Fire!

Sad to see Erik go. I've had a few very pleasant run-ins with him at media events, and without a doubt, Erik was the most empathetic and personally invested Nintendo rep that you could meet. He would stay to answer questions and talk to fans, and if for some reason he needed to leave, he'd make sure to find a time that you could talk later. Trust me, this is not necessarily the expectant relationship that media is used to having with their subjects.

Sad to see you leave Erik, and I hope you keep visible on social media wherever you land next!

Aw, he was cool. Hope the future is good for him!

@k8sMum I'm working on it mum, I'm working on it.

@TheRealThanos I like ThanosRexx.

Typing out my full name always makes me nervous, rather do it in chunks. And this thread is actually active, unlike the last one that we took over, nobody has been on it besides us since yesterday. I'm a junior, you can probably figure out the rest.

In retrospect, half of these are being deleted. Like now.

So, Baloo all right with you? I just needed the right inspiration. (Live DI Next on youtube at 1) Was leaning towards George Kennedy - who is deserving - but I wasn't in a memorial mood. Had 50 eggs for lunch instead.

@rjejr Ah, okay. Somehow I was still thinking with my Marvel cap on and thinking of something Scandinavian-Norse godlike...

Baloo instead of Trump? That's a win every day! So what you're actually saying is that you're a big ol' teddy bear...

As for deleting your comments: you could have just edited out the necessary parts. Now mine make no sense anymore... (as Peanut would say: "Frikkin' thanks for nuthin'! ")
Now I had to edit your name out of one of mine. Still makes no sense anyway...

Good luck processing all those eggs. You should have tossed them at Trump instead...
(Btw; didn't get the DI YouTube thing, so you may have to elaborate)

@ALinkttPresent He did the E3 Treehouse Streams.

He was one of my favorite Treehouse guys. Sad to see him go .

I just remember him as the hot guy in the directs.

@Arcamenel
true, that.

btw, why did he leave? do we know? was he spilling secrets? what happened? (o_O )

@KoopaTheGamer There is something wrong with me: I actually have a sense of humor, and I know the difference between real comedy and garbage. But different strokes.

@TheRealThanos Wow, replying to your emails 17 hours later was always weird, 21 hours later I have no idea what either one of us was talking about yesterday.

Disney Infinity Next - its like a Ntineod Direct, for DI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p2cYYorv3o

Eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkzEusQLBw

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me I need ot go back and delete all those emails in the other thread too. Everybody is going to think your a rambling madman talking to yourself. Dont' worry, I'll make it up to you.

@rjejr Not as mad or old as you, Abraham...

Btw, you forgot to react in the Ubi/Vivendi take over thread...

@rjejr I was already planning on sending you a message asking "has it been 17 hours yet?" but you beat me to it...

@rjejr Liked the Disney Infinity "Direct". Seems like something else I will have to set aside some money for. Especially the Star Wars and Marvel sets...

I do think that chubby guy on the left looked a bit weird; I'm not particularly partial to men appearing to wear mascara (the single exception being Alice Cooper) and having overly pinkish lips...

They could have shown some more women in there, but the one that was in it looked nice enough. I guess game developing is still a man's world. And that Jeff Bunker guy at 4m51s looks like a Disney Infinity character himself. But all in all, a VERY entertaining and polished video. Then again: I wouldn't have expected anything else from Disney.

@TheRealThanos The only woman I remember in that video was some young blonde beauty near the beginning who was in it for so short a time for no reason I assumed it was meant as a subliminal message.

And no, no one will ever accuse you of being as mad as me.

ugh, 15 more emails to go, I'm never catching up today.

@rjejr Well, what's a man to do? Just accept the fact that you're popular. Unless you're George Clooney, that's quite an achievement at your age...

@rjejr And yeah, the blonde was the one I meant. Her name is Allison Petrek and she's Lead Community Manager. She might not be a regular bombshell but she is a cutey:
https://twitter.com/allisonpetrek

P.S.

Sorry to have added two more emails to the list. Then again, 17 seems to be a number that we're used to by now...

@ricklongo @rjejr
; ; I needed two days to process this news and I'm still not done.
...I guess I'll never be. T_T
breaks down crying Life as I know it is OVER.

@AyeHaley Maybe Nitneod will let you sit in on the interview process for the new hiree?

@TheRealThanos Now I'm up to 40 hours and 35 emails.

Conspiracy vids on youtube are like potato chips, you can't watch just one.

Question - is it possible to put your support squarely behind 3 people? Isn't that more like a circle of support?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/mitt-romney-presidential-race-speech/index.html

You may be mad, but I'd vote for you for President. Even with Annihilus as your running mate.

@rjejr Sounds more like a circle jerk to me, or a circle of jerks... lack of interest in politics confuses me...

Oh, and ehm... let's not forget Darkseid. May not be Marvel, but he sure is my evil brother from another mother...

What a battle that would be:

Obviously, I would win...

@TheRealThanos I think Darkseid and Thanos would need to be for different parties, but I can't figure out which is which.

@rjejr Well, although I hate to say it, Thanos has all the gold and gems, so that would be crazy rich mofo Trump, and Darkseid has the most wrinkles and that glowing red "it's that time of the month again" stare, so he must be Hillary Clinton...

@TheRealThanos For somebody not following, that's very accurate.

@rjejr I'll tell you man, the Netherlands is just as interested in the US's politics as they are themselves, so we see it almost every day in the news here. There's no escaping it...

@TheRealThanos Maybe the nightly news can show the 41 minute ND instead? Or however long the EU version was. I'll be watching the debate madness. After I rewatch the ND with my wife and kid.

@rjejr While you do that, I'll take a peek at that cutey in the Disney Infinity Next video again...

@TheRealThanos Watched the Disney Direct after the ND. Unprompted, my wife said - "what is she, like 12?" when that girl appeared on screen. Pretty funny.

@rjejr Did she turn green as well?

@TheRealThanos No, she's more about ridicule and scorn than petty jealousy. She just thinks everythings ridiculous. People on here think I'm bad at mocking Nitnedo, I'm a rabid fanboi compared to her reactions on many of their decisions. She did seem to like last night's ND though. She's happy when here kids are happy, and they were both happy yesterday.

@rjejr Yeah, I figured. Just pulling your leg. But now you told me this, I can't help but wonder what she thought of mascara guy, though...

@TheRealThanos We live in NY and she works in book publishing, mascara guy is the norm here.

@rjejr Ah, okay. I'm beginning to see why you can never win, no matter what you might say...

@King_Boo actually, Nate Bihldorf is the one who did that. He and Erik Peterson look REALLY similar (unless that is actually a picture of Nate in this article by mistake)