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Kevin:
(1) When did you meet Kobe Bryant?

[dons helmet to replace Paul]

Paul will be in a great deal of pain, certainly, but not nearly as much as anyone willingly watching a Redskins-Browns preseason game.

this is unthinkable

If this brings them down in your estimation, good luck working anywhere. Practically all companies do this.

No, but he discussed Nintendo’s internal decision-making process involving game localization. That’s revealing the internal workings of his company, regardless of how innocuous it may seem from the outside.

Except the fact that he spoke about certain stuff that pissed of people in the Nintendo community and did not get direct permission from his Company to speak on their behalf therefore breaking his contract. It is common knowledge that you get permission from your company to speak about your company on behalf of them.…

Even the guy who got fired understood that he was likely in trouble as soon as more people became aware of the podcast. And it’s not so much that Nintendo is being defended so much that anyone that’s familiar with the industry could see this coming a mile away. It’s not a nit-picky part of the contract we’re talking…

PS4 has plenty of 3rd party support.

It's the way things are because it's the way things have to be. When your business invests millions of dollars to craft a public image you can't allow individuals to go rogue and put that image at risk. NDAs are a perfectly reasonable means of protecting the company's investment.

All companies. Welcome to the real world. Not just one culture or how they runt he business. The company I work for is MASSIVE in the gaming industry and I would be fired in a heart beat if I spoke about my job on a podcast.

Actually, when you work for corporate entities, that’s exactly what happens. You could work at a McDonalds as a fry cook and you speak about the company’s practices to the media, you’re gone.

Stop blaming Nintendo. Every single place on earth will fire you if you went and talked to the media without getting prior approval from HQ first.

Except it’s not silly reasons. It’s almost definitely a breach in a legal contract. Even if nothing ‘important’ was revealed, the inherent problem is that allowing it to happen without retribution would invite more employees to do similar interviews, and possibly release more sensitive information. So unless Nintendo…

This has nothing to do with Nintendo. No matter what company you work for you are not allowed to talk about the inner workings publically. Any company, not just the video game industry, will fire you for doing something like that. Confidentiality is extremely important everywhere and every single contract has them.

Pretty much any company would do this if an employ started talking to media about internal development, especially something that is secretive.

Beer, probably Keystone Ice.

I hate your vertical videos. I hope they die. Like, Horizontal videos are my life.