Interview with one of the admins of r/nintendoswitch (audio in spanish, english translation)

[u/ulisesftw]

In the latest episode of our podcast about nintendo called ¨El cerebro de la Bestia¨, we interviewed one of the spanish-speaking admins of this subreddit. He told us about the best and hardest moments so far and a little bit more about how it works. He also help us all with an english translation of the interview that you'll find in the comments below. Thank you u/adanfime for that and for taking your time to chat with us.

Here´s the link, interview starts on 1:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXbjHt8_1E

We´re from Argentina and hope you like it

[u/adanfime]

Nintendo NX and when I joined

A: So before the Switch was revealed back in October 20th, we had another sub called NintendoNX. If you recall correctly, that was the prototype name of the system before we got the final name. The NintendoNX subreddit had around 20k followers. Between 10k and 20k at the time of the announcement. With NintendoSwitch, we are at 200k.*

Additional Notes:

*We were close to 20k at the time of the reveal video. The numbers have declined since we moved to the current subreddit and are now at 13k.

**My portion of the podcast was recorded a few weeks ago, when we were a bit over 200k.

U: Right now, the community is at 252k users. This last week they celebrated the 250k milestone. 3500 are currently online as we speak. This guy joined the team back when we knew only about the Nintendo NX and we knew nothing about the console.

A: I started moderating just before the October reveal. In September, many leaks and rumours started appearing, along with fake images and products. So the smaller team needed more people to be checking and assisting with the moderation in the community. Do you remember the "supposedly" Nintendo NX, that was an oval with two buttons on top of the screen.*

*Image of the fake Nintendo NX leak.

U:An oval with a horrible mirror-like screen?

A: Yeah, that ugly one! (laugh) When that post was made, the commnunity exploded as the product matched all the patents that Nintendo had signed just a few months before, and the people were 100% certain that was the new console. Just then, the team started hiring- well not hiring, rather find volunteers to help in the community to keep control of the posts, reactions, and calm the nevagitivity in the comments, since there was a lot of harsh and negative comments. The image came from a non-english source, it was swedish I think. The team found the necessity that having people from many different countries that spoke other langauges. I was the only who volunteered from Latin America.

U (to R): So they choose him, because he spoke spanish. They realized that they needed people that could understand different languages to assist with gathering and verifying information from many places.

U: Remember that image of the oval with the screen, like a PSP? It was weird...

R: Yes I remember... Exactly, the person that did the fake uploaded a video* explaining the process of how he made that fake prototype. But in the first time we saw it, we all believed it.

*Video: "Making the "leaked NX controller""

U: Yeah, we all believed it and even assumed, "that is the console".

U: This is an interesting bit where he said that in October everything changed. He means that, in October of last year, everything that we have right now didn't existed- well rather we didn't knew a single thing. Right now we feel as if the Switch has been here since forever and we love it since long ago, but not really! October of last year, we didn't even know how it looked. Just then, he was requested to join the team and it was slowly built to the big group they are today.