In an embarrassing turn of events, Nintendo Of Spain recently have had to re-select winners of a competition due to 15 of the original batch having ties with Nintendo itself. Much like other territories and Nintendo’s marketing campaign; players are given the chance to try the Nintendo Switch prior to launch. However, the winners in this case were either partnered with the company for YouTube video purposes, or in one case, actually in a relationship with a Nintendo employee which of course is a widely known no-no.
Angry tweets and YouTube videos produced by Spanish YouTube stars soon cropped up online. Nintendo seemingly cottoned on to the fact that they were effectively breaking the rules of their own T&C’s and have since chosen another 20 competition winners -presumably actual random fans this time.
So many uncles.
They fucked up big time.
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I would suck any on Nintendo if they add me on that list!
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||Does this act somehow give you some potential access to something?…||
I would rather wait for it to come out in a few weeks.
I can wait the 20 something days…
so the 5 who didn’t have ties with nintendo. did they get screwed over? xD
^excellent point! Did they get to keep their special pass or what? It hardly seems fair if they didn’t.
Hashtag# @ insert * Cricket chirping here * ftw ffs.
Play CONTINUUM! Awesome link in my profile.
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I feel bad for the 5 legit winners who wont get to try it before launch now because of Nintendo effing things up
Wow… pretty bad.
And also hilarious that Nintendo Spain was caught with their pants down.
I have no intentions of spamming in any way whatsoever, but I wrote a brief report (in Spanish, of course) on what happened in this controversy. https://www.topofarmer.com/2017/02/08/polemica-del-concurso-soyswitchtuber/ The article is merely factual and covers both the disqualified winners and the new ones.
Google Translate seems to provide a good enough translation in case you can’t read Spanish. Besides, I can answer questions in case anyone is interested in this controversy.
“My dad works for Nintendo” Should’ve kept your mouth shut kid.
What type of dirty!..
That’s fucked up, man! I hope the 5 that don’t have ties to Ninty weren’t screwed, though, and there will simply be 25 people instead of just 20 like originally planned. After that fuck up, boosting the number from 20 to 25 would be the nice thing to do.
Nintendo Spains is corrupted.
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