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Nintendo confirms contractor layoffs amid claims of testing "lull" ahead of Switch 2 (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/nintendo

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this isn't really surprising. It doesn't make sense to keep testers around when there's no new hardware to test. That's why they were contract positions in the first place.

[–] echo64 3 points 8 months ago

Sounds like NoA is getting ahead of unionization efforts to outsource QA. It's a lose lose situation!