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Title: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on February 01, 2006, 10:23:35 AM
Laruent Fischer will be filling in the role formerly held by Jim Merrick.

When Jim Merrick announced that he'd be coming back to Nintendo of America from its European counterpart (before leaving the company altogether), Nintendo didn't say who'd be taking over for the marketing maestro. According to 1Up, Laurent Fischer is up for the job.    


Formerly the marketing director for France, he had this to say:    


"Nintendo is moving into a very exciting and innovative time as we expand the definition of gaming and broaden the population of video games players. I am looking forward to the new challenge of working for Nintendo at a European level in this particularly significant period."    


PGC would like to congratulate Mr. Fischer on his promotion and wishes him all the best.

Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 01, 2006, 11:37:19 AM
He better be as open and loose-mouthed as Merrick was!
Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: ruby_onix on February 01, 2006, 12:41:06 PM
Of course he will be. He's French.
Title: RE:NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: mantidor on February 01, 2006, 02:58:27 PM
For  a moment there I read Laurence Fishburne.


Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: MaleficentOgre on February 01, 2006, 07:21:20 PM
laurence fishburne would be a great marketer.
Title: RE:NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: Mario on February 01, 2006, 08:06:23 PM
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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
He better be as open and loose-mouthed as Merrick was!

Not if he wants to keep his job!

RIP Merrick
Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: ShyGuy on February 01, 2006, 08:30:51 PM
Did Reggie kill Merrick for his insolence?  
Title: RE:NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: couchmonkey on February 02, 2006, 04:25:01 AM
What excites me is that he commented on expanding the gamer population.  I like that everyone at Nintendo is on the same page there - I was worried it was the plan from Japan and nobody in North America or Europe was taking it seriously.  I think it's an exciting scheme.
Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: Requiem on February 02, 2006, 08:09:31 AM
Merrick was killed for releasing one of Nintendo's biggest secrets.


Nobody believes me, nor cares, but he let slip that Zelda will use NGC controls throughout the entire game (but still remain a GC game with GC controls).
Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: KDR_11k on February 02, 2006, 09:21:19 AM
Requiem: Uh, do you mean Rev controls? Because otherwise that makes little sense.
Title: RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: ShyGuy on February 02, 2006, 10:56:41 AM
Source?
Title: RE:NoE Finds New Marketing Head
Post by: vudu on February 02, 2006, 11:13:54 AM
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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Source?
There was a big rumor floating around during the end of December about this.  It originated from a Dutch gamer mag.  Here's a big thread in the Revolution forum.  Rumour come True? Zelda: TP Forward Compatible?