Yeah, I mean it sounds like his new thing is coming soon by the way he signs off, so it would make no sense to see him leaving as shade throwing if its been in the pipeline a while.
I think it's the timing that is causing people to be suspicious. Hopefully there's nothing wrong.
I think it's just this forum has people who are suspicious about everything
Yep that's how I read it as well
Nintendo isn't his friend if they did him wrong then fuck them and good luck to him.
Yup something seems to be wrong with that position. I almost want to say they are asked to do a lot and not given enough latitude. Dan Adleman was in that position too.
There's reading between lines, and then there's making blatant assumptions.
I've been saying this long before current world events have been happening. Nintendo has been trying to distance themselves away from anything related to the Wii/Wii U era, most notable in the Switch's lack of OS features and no more Virtual Console.
That's far fetched. It's about small indie devs not getting enough exposure. The bigger more experienced indie devs get more support and the smaller ones either can't even get a dev kit or get no exposure for one reason or another.
I'd imagine the company structure of every big decision (and some small) being beholden to Japan is a big part of what's grinding people down. It wasn't always that way though, NOA seemed to have a lot more agency in 1990s.
Given the wording and the timing, that's certainly possible, but I think it's best to not jump to conclusions.
I can see him throwing shade in there. The context of the shade is what there's disagreement on.
This is the correct takeaway.
Nah, people straight up going for the "lol tinfoil hats" shit in here.
Which means that there are different conclusions here being made on what exactly the shade infers.
I thought I was crazy at first, especially with the timing of his departure. Glad I wasn't the only one. But I'll treat it as a coincidence until he confirms. Don't want to make assumptions.
I'll assume this much for the time being as well, at least until he speaks up more about it. We've heard a lot from previous names in that particular position, so there's a good chance we'll eventually hear more from Kirk as well. I wouldn't say Nintendo have gotten weaker about publisher/developer relations since the Dan Adelman days, but out of the employees leaving NoA that particular position is usually the one that seems the most "cursed" for lack of a better word and the biggest blind spot they've yet to cover (contrast to Eric Smith who was another notable person at NoA who left and had nothing but good things to say instead).
Oh yeah, the timing is making me real suspicious of what's going on over at NoA
Yeah, why mention February if this was just about Nintendo's response to the protests? Maybe it helped push him over the edge, but people are jumping to some conclusions by excluding whole sections of the statement.
Not really he specifically talks about minorities in his tweet and puts everyone on caps. I don't things he's calling them out as racist per se, but he's definitely calling them out for not being as inclusive as they claim to be.
