Contract: Digital Archivist, Historical Systems

rustyhancock

> Pay Range: > $35—$55 USD Is that per hour? Odd way to quote the salary range.

coded_monkey

So they can keep upselling us old games we already bought before but now on the latest platform that will not be compatible with the next platform either so we can restart the cycle again.

freshtake

This reads to me mostly like Nintendo has a giant backlog of analog information (think wall of paper files and envelopes at your dentist's office) that they need to preserve... hand drawings from the 1980s and 90s, tape recordings of music, and so forth. They likely need someone to help catalog, organize, and digitize this information. In other words, probably less about upselling old games and more about preserving fragile historical content (Nintendo museum incoming?)

hd4

sorry but this is hilarious. nintendo have almost become a byword for anti-consumer practice, routinely attack projects who even slightly infringe on their IP, crush legal emulator projects (yuzu) etc. feels like they want to add insult to injury at this point.

xg15

Feels more like a figleaf so they can say they are managing preservation themselves when there might be reasonable grounds that other projects might do it otherwise.

nubinetwork

If they ever fill this job, its going to be pointless paper pushing, not a real job preserving old games.