It's a wild week in the world of Nintendo's upper management in marketing ... we think. Recently, Nintendo's marketing department was told they'd need to
ship off to either New York or San Francisco from their current homes in Redmond. According to
Game Informer, as astounding 90% decided to remain in the area and take severance pay. What's even more shocking are that Beth Llewelyn (senior director of public relations), Perrin Kaplan (vice president of marketing and corporate affairs) and George Harrison (senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications) are among the dearly departed. From Nintendo, we mean.
Those are some big names dropping from Nintendo's ivory towers, and we've got to sad we're sad to see them go. George was always a nice, candid fellow, and who can forget
drunk Perrin (pictured above)? Now
that was a classic. We would like to reiterate that
Game Informer's claim has not yet been corroborated, so we'll post an update with confirmation or denial when we get it.
[Thanks, Jensonb!]
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6-07-2007 @ 10:25AM
Hirsbrunner said...
I say good riddance to Kaplan. I found her to be quite annoying, like sand in your crotch.
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6-07-2007 @ 11:09AM
Steve said...
It wouldn't surprise me if the 90% number is accurate. Even with Nintendo abandoning the idea moving to the "short bus" city of San Fran, the thought of ending your personal life (and the *entire* life of everyone else in your household) is not very appealing.
What makes this a really bad move on the part of Nintendo is that many of these people, and their insider knowledge, will probably find new homes in Microsoft's XBOX division. Oh, wait, Perrin Kaplan is one of the people leaving Nintendo? Hum...Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all...
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6-07-2007 @ 11:42AM
j.lee said...
It wouldn't surprise me if the 90% number is accurate because, from what I can tell, most people who move to or live in the Pacific Northwest pretty much never leave once they get here. On top of that, uprooting to two of the most expensive cities in the country is probably not very cost effective for most of the staff.
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6-07-2007 @ 1:35PM
qrayg said...
Kaplan leaving will be a blessing for Nintendo. A monkey could do a better job.
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6-07-2007 @ 9:11PM
Ken said...
I still love that picture! LOL.
But it sucks that people are getting "layed" off, but they had a choice, I suppose.
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