You may recall that last month there was a Reddit leak involving a GameStop employee. An employee revealed a new Nintendo Switch OLED model that is themed around The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Meanwhile, Nintendo announced a new Switch model, confirming the leak.
But things didn’t end well for the GameStop employee. Not only did GameStop reveal who did it, a person who spoke to Kotaku as “Mike,” but GameStop fired the employee a few weeks after Nintendo officially announced the new Switch model.
As for why GameStop fired him, it’s not surprising. Mike, as well as another GameStop employee who worked at the store and heard the same thing, both stated that the manager told them “off the record” that Nintendo had given him no choice and demanded that the employee be fired. According to Mike, when his manager told him the bad news about the layoff, he said “this is your favorite company and now they hate you.”
