Chris Pranger de Nintendo Treehouse viré pour un podcast

Il y a quelques jours, Chris Pranger, un des membres de Nintendo Treehouse (qui s'occupe notamment de la localisation américaine des jeux Nintendo) a participé à un podcast pour parler de son travail chez Nintendo, racontant, notamment que c'était lui qui faisait la voix du premier boss dans la version anglaise de StarFox Zero ou encore que Nintendo mettait à disposition de ses employés, une bibliothèque de jeux des consoles concurrentes pour qu'ils se tiennent au courant du marché... 

Mais si le podcast a fait le tour des sites anglosaxons, c'est surtout à cause de l'évocation des problèmes de localisation de certains jeux qui font apparemment perdre de l'argent à Nintendo et aussi de l'attitude des fans ne voulant pas comprendre que Nintendo n'a aucun intérêt à localiser des "jeux de niche" comme Captain Rainbow  car les frais de localisation, de doublage et de marketing sont souvent colossaux et qu'il faut ensuite pouvoir les amortir.... C'est, d'après lui, pour cela qu'au départ, Xenoblade Chronicles ne devait pas sortir aux Etats-Unis sur Wii malgré la notoriété naissante de la licence. Le public susceptible de s'intéresser au jeu était tout simplement trop petit par rapport à l'investissement qu'il demandait.... Et si finalement le jeu est sorti aux Etats-Unis un an plus tard c'est simplement parce que Nintendo of Europe s'est occupé des frais de localisation...

Alors est-ce ce passage qui a énervé Nintendo ? Quoiqu'il en soit  Chris Pranger vient de confirmer sur son compte Facebook qu'il avait perdu son travail et qu'il ne faisait plus parti de Nintendo. Est-ce vraiment à cause de ce podcast ou y avait-il d'autres problèmes ? Nous n'en savons rien. A l'heure actuelle, Chris Pranger a retiré son message de son compte Facebook. Vous pouvez malgré tout le lire ci-dessous (en anglais). Il y explique sa passion pour Nintendo mais aussi son désarroi face à cette situation.

Hello friends and family. As many of you have probably seen, I am no longer at Nintendo. I was terminated this week due to a podcast appearance I made last Monday. It was a stupid judgment call on my part and ultimately it cost me far more than I could have imagined.
I've lost the only job I really knew or ever intended to know. Since leaving high school, I've had a singular goal in terms of a career. It got me through college and pushed me through the difficult time immediately after college where I learned just how crippling it was to have an English degree in the job market. I applied for 6 years straight for my job. Even before that, I'd made my entire identity around my hope to one day have this perfect job. I was mocked here and there as "Nintendo Boy" from maybe middle school on, but I thought that if I succeeded, it'd all be worth it.
And now it's gone and I honestly don't know how to handle myself. A central part of my personality revolves around Nintendo. Anything that I've decorated with around my house has a very clear Nintendo theme. My shirts and jackets overwhelmingly show that as well. Being able to finally feel at home at a job is a feeling I can't easily quantify. I was the guy who'd see a hastily-discarded paper towel in the men's room and pick it up, saying to myself, "This is my home, and I will keep it clean."
If we're being honest, I'm scared. Very scared. I haven't been without a job for over 4 years, and even then it was during the weird "just exiting college" part of life that everyone goes through. And back then, I was still down in Oregon near family. Living in Washington has struggled to feel normal, but I was grounded in my job. It was where I happily spent my time and saw all of my friends. With that unstuck, Washington suddenly feels alien and empty all over again.
I look around my house and see images of my son and feel such intense shame and crippling sadness. How do I share this part of my life with him? How do I cope knowing that I've failed him? Even before this I'd been struggling to want to provide better for him and my wife, knowing that due to my student loans, I wouldn't be entirely debt-free until I turned 40. That's not a hyperbole either. I'm just now barely under $100,000 in student debt and my last payment is scheduled for the same year that I turn 40. "That student debt is intimidating, but it's worth it for the end result." I've undone my end result.
I spent the last week in a miserable place once the podcast began getting coverage. I was instantly scared when a coworker poked me and said, "Hey, you're on GoNintendo." Suddenly article after article began appearing in game sites of all languages. Comments sections painted me as an idiot and the like. My Twitter started giving me hourly reminders from people meaning well and otherwise. It seemed unthinkable that I'd be let go for a single moment of poor judgment and my own misunderstandings, but here we are.
Obviously, as I'm writing this at 4 am, I don't think I have a clear goal. All I can think of is that there's so much I've put at risk. I know that if I can't find a job at least as good as this one, I won't be able to provide for my family. I've lost them their health coverage and their security. I also know that I've probably lost a good deal of my friends, just because I know how hard it can be to stay in touch with someone when the convenience of proximity is lost.
I'm so sorry to everyone. I've failed you. You believed in me and supported me and trusted me and I've failed you. I've failed me.