Nintendo of Europe makes official statement regarding behavior of Nintendo Russia's General Manager

depaul · Jan 16, 2019

He looks indeed very sick mentally.

Taleweaver · Jan 16, 2019

I'm not really taking sides in this. Okay...a bit leaning towards his side, really.

Like many, I had no idea that Russia even had a nintendo division. It would seem obvious (the country's large enough for it), but I had no idea. And that would go both ways. If they were either excellent or terrible, we would've heard something from the guy. But he's apparently doing his job for six years and 4 months. If he's really as bad as people here claim he is, I would think he would've been replaced much sooner.

So he gets pissed off and says things he didn't mean, and later apologized for it. Sounds like most people I know.

And let's not forget: nintendo did an investigation on it. I see no reason why they should either protect him or throw him under the bus. As such, I'm inclined to believe them. The guy got a formal warning and had to apologize. For me, that's fine. If Nintendo Russia really sucks as much as @CHEMI6DER claims, then it might actually need someone who lays things out to his employees in clear terms (BTW: what are you really saying, @CHEMI6DER ? I'm playing devil's advocate for a second: if the situation is really bad, wouldn't it be a good thing to have everyone fired?

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Kigiru · Jan 16, 2019

Meh, if there's no prove for rest of the allegation then there's simply no reason to remove him from his place. Sure his behavior during that stream was unacceptable, but there's literaly nothing proving that he did more than that and kicking out employee for a single wrong situation is just moronic. Nintendo did the best they could do with evidences of what happened and decided to not react with only words of some people as basis.

Noctosphere · Jan 16, 2019

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Kioku · Jan 16, 2019

Taleweaver said:
So he gets pissed off and says things he didn't mean, and later apologized for it. Sounds like most people I know.

And let's not forget: nintendo did an investigation on it. I see no reason why they should either protect him or throw him under the bus.

You mean big businesses don't usually protect higher ups (unless they're sexual predators or racist bigots obviouslyyyyy) in these instances? Also, an investigation doesn't mean much, when all he had to do was play nice. I've seen stuff like this first hand, so I'm more inclined to believe his reign of terror isn't over yet and those who came forward will either be demoted or transferred elsewhere if not out of a job.

SuperNintendho · Jan 16, 2019

Big business absolutely does protect their higher up elites.
Just take a look at how Square Enix completely ignores the sexual harassment that is taking place and then fires the victim and promotes the sexual harasser.

I wonder why we're not going to see this being reported by Kotaku Gamespot IGN PC Gamer.... Well I guess I can see why PC Gamer might not talk about it.

I think that it would do the world a lot of good if gbatemp reported this in a news article on the front page. As an independent outlet that I financially support I sure would love to see it.

kevin corms · Jan 16, 2019

CHEMI6DER said:
This is really awful. The fact that he didn't get fired means that Nintendo of russia will continue to suck. All the marketing failures are because of Yasha. He literally doesn't care about the company.
As someone said in a discussion on VK under a post about the situation, Yasha would probably bribe someone at NOE just to save his job...seems like that guy was right

Start firing people without investigation and see what happens.

ZachariasBarnham · Jan 16, 2019

Like nearly everyone else already said:

There's a Nintendo of Russia?!?

I'm kinda confused. I know of NOA, NOE, NOJ, and NOK. How'd I miss this one?

Now, as for this guy, it seems that he should have at least been demoted. His behavior was unprofessional and unbecoming of an executive, especially a Nintendo branch President. Imagine the outrage if Reggie Fils-Aime got caught doing something like that.

CHEMI6DER · Jan 16, 2019

kevin corms said:
Start firing people without investigation and see what happens.

I'm not saying that without a reason, if you did even a little bit of research or asked someone who is a Nintendo fan from Russia(try to find someone like that on an english speaking forum lol) you'd know how much of a letdown is what NOR does and most of that is due to the way Yasha handles things. It's a fact proven by ex-employees of NOR that Yasha is an awful person. It was clearly stated a few times by ex-staff that the less you cared about Nintendo the more you got paid and stuff like that. Yasha is also known for always doing things his own way and not listening to anyone. Like that recent messup of his with Pokemon LGPE release: everyone at the office told him that sales would be high and that they need to order more cartridges, but guess what? Yasha though it wasn't necessary and they sold out literally day one(that's not even considering that there were no copies of Let's go evee at all, again because of Yasha's decision). Then there's literally 0 marketing, many games don't get translations(and considering Yasha's attitude it's a miracle that we got atleast many major titles translated(we still don't have pokemon translations though)), and events that NOR hosts(like Level up days from that video) are all in Moscow(not that much of a problem for people who live there, but there are many angry comments under Level up day posts in VK from people from other regions and cities) and much more.
(P.S. Sorry for the wall of text and for my shoddy english)

Taleweaver · Jan 16, 2019

Memoir said:
You mean big businesses don't usually protect higher ups (unless they're sexual predators or racist bigots obviouslyyyyy) in these instances? Also, an investigation doesn't mean much, when all he had to do was play nice. I've seen stuff like this first hand, so I'm more inclined to believe his reign of terror isn't over yet and those who came forward will either be demoted or transferred elsewhere if not out of a job.

I'm not saying anything about big business in general. I'm saying that in this case, I give them the benefit of the doubt. So I don't automatically assume that the investigation was just about his current behavior.

Dies-Irae · Jan 16, 2019

SexySpai said:
Now I'm confused

Do I really have to explain how a man named Yasha Haddaji is not russian?

Rabbid4240 · Jan 16, 2019

Dies-Irae said:
Do I really have to explain how a man named Yasha Haddaji is not russian?

Nah

SG854 · Jan 16, 2019

Dies-Irae said:
Do I really have to explain how a man named Yasha Haddaji is not russian?

Explain it

medoli900 · Jan 16, 2019

For those who says that "The low-dogs are kicked out at one simple misstep while the higher ups are basically invincible"; yes. Yes that is correct, and perfectly logic. If you kick out one of the higher ups, you create a power void. That void is what the "lower-dogs" wants to fight for the position. Of course the "lower-dogs" wants their higher ranked kicked, so they can take their place. If that sounds like mafia level to you, well it's because it is. There's a reason why legal enforcement units does not take direct action against a mafia boss. Corporations are more or less the same.

Noctosphere · Jan 16, 2019

face235 said:
Like nearly everyone else already said:

There's a Nintendo of Russia?!?

I'm kinda confused. I know of NOA, NOE, NOJ, and NOK. How'd I miss this one?

Now, as for this guy, it seems that he should have at least been demoted. His behavior was unprofessional and unbecoming of an executive, especially a Nintendo branch President. Imagine the outrage if Reggie Fils-Aime got caught doing something like that.

Theres nintendo of canada too

Ericthegreat · Jan 17, 2019

proflayton123 said:
This is new to me, I didnt even know Nintendo had a russian branch, abuse shouldn't be tolerated in any form.

Yeah I have never once seen anyone mention NoR.

Impossible_Igntiz · Jan 17, 2019

proflayton123 said:
This is new to me, I didnt even know Nintendo had a russian branch, abuse shouldn't be tolerated in any form.

Well goes to show you how sneaky this guy and other countries companies are when shit hits the fan, they're very good at hiding

Dies-Irae · Jan 17, 2019

SuperNintendho said:
Big business absolutely does protect their higher up elites.
Just take a look at how Square Enix completely ignores the sexual harassment that is taking place and then fires the victim and promotes the sexual harasser.

I wonder why we're not going to see this being reported by Kotaku Gamespot IGN PC Gamer.... Well I guess I can see why PC Gamer might not talk about it.

I think that it would do the world a lot of good if gbatemp reported this in a news article on the front page. As an independent outlet that I financially support I sure would love to see it.

what an annoying guy, how can you stand watching 30 minutes of him speaking?

SuperNintendho · Jan 17, 2019

Lol. I normally would never watch 30 minutes. Usually a video from him is a quick 5 or 6 minutes or so.

nashismo · Jan 18, 2019

Ok, another internet witch hunt, and the communists throwing more fire at the stake of the new witch. Nothing new to see, we call it "funa" in latin american spanish, were people from all communist backgrounds gather in order to make someone hated fall, fired, unable to speak, etc. This is fucking SHIT, no matter how much of a douchebag your boss is, he is still your boss, and sometimes if not by him, you wouldn't even have a job.

Ungrateful and communists, thats what the rich world has turned into, and they have not yet realise this, we see it clearly because south america has been dealing with this crap for decades, almost a century of communism, good thing is that in here, people aren't buying this new crap.

If the guy did something wrong, then you have the courts of justice to deal with him, that's it, and you are innocent until proven guilty by court of law. This is universal, but the communists want to make their own laws and be judge and jury, I am not buying it.

There should be a case were a person should be smeared and persecuted socially and then proven innocent by a court of law, and then, all the people falsely accusing should go to JAIL. Then a new universal law should be passed against online pre-judgement and smearing, and the new laws should be SUPER strict on anyone passing judgment online, at least 5 years of prison for false accusation online (depending on the accusation).

Everyone would think twice before socially smearing a person.

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