Author Topic: Nintendo Leaving Redmond Area? (Read 11263 times)

WindyMan · « **on:** May 03, 2007, 06:35:25 PM »

NOA may be planning to relocate to San Francisco or New York, if the word on the street is to be believed.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=13401

Game Informer Online is reporting that Nintendo of America's sales and marketing departments may soon be leaving its Redmond, Washington headquarters and relocating elsewhere, perhaps as early as this fall. Other departments were not mentioned, so it is currently unclear whether or not other parts of NOA would stay or go if the move were indeed to happen.

GI's sources indicate that San Francisco and New York are potential areas for relocation, and that current employees would need to decide by the end of this month whether or not to relocate with the company or accept severance packages. No immediate reason was given for why this may be taking place.

Nintendo World Report will have more on this important event as additional details become available.

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #1 on:** May 03, 2007, 06:54:52 PM »

Interesting. San Francisco makes sense from a media relations standpoint, but New York makes sense from a marketing research standpoint (what with their flagship store in NY).

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:06:51 PM »

NOOOOO, I don't want Nintendo moving from my home state, I wanted to work for them in the future.

18 Days · « **Reply #3 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:08:57 PM »

Running out of space?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:10:19 PM »

Yeah, a while back I recall reading about how they were running out of building space...I'm sorta surprised it took them this long to decide to relocate...

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:21:20 PM »

They're relocating some business-oriented departments to a new, satellite office. NOA probably doesn't want to geographically segment its development & localization teams based in Redmond. This is what happens when you outgrow your home.

MegaByte · « **Reply #6 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:28:55 PM »

San Francisco please!

familycircus · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:35:03 PM »

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Originally posted by: 18 Days
Running out of space?

Yeah, all the building around them are owned by Microsoft.

WuTangTurtle · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:40:16 PM »

I bet Microsoft even encroaches on there parking spaces too.

Kairon · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:47:23 PM »

YES! CALI!

...wait! Sales & Marketting? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! There's no way I can get my foot in the door with sales and marketting!!!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

IceCold · « **Reply #10 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:49:21 PM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
YES! CALI!

...wait! Sales & Marketting? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! There's no way I can get my foot in the door with sales and marketting!!!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

You'd probably need to know how to spell "marketing" too

Bloodworth · « **Reply #11 on:** May 03, 2007, 08:21:00 PM »

Weren't they looking for permission to expand the campus a couple years ago? If the city objected due to traffic congestion or other reasons, Nintendo may very well have outgrown its home.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #12 on:** May 03, 2007, 08:43:24 PM »

Screw California, you already have tons of video game related stuff. Nintendo should relocate back to New York (NOA started out in New York before relocating to Redmond). That way I can take a trip to New York, go to both the Nintendo World Store and Nintendo itself.

ThePerm · « **Reply #13 on:** May 03, 2007, 08:46:46 PM »

Maybe Microsoft is paying them a fat load of cash for their facilities

the best time to relocate is at the end of the school year when the employees kids are finishing up classes

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #14 on:** May 03, 2007, 08:57:20 PM »

Nintendo needs to stay here so we can get their first party games the day they are sent out like usual!

sycomonkey · « **Reply #15 on:** May 03, 2007, 10:49:06 PM »

I would be sad if they left, having Nintendo itself a short drive across the lake has been very cool.

Smoke39 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 03, 2007, 11:07:28 PM »

Hahaha. I happen to be transfering out of DigiPen to go to school back home in California. Funny coincidence that NOA's considering moving down there at the same time. :b

Kairon · « **Reply #17 on:** May 03, 2007, 11:14:36 PM »

TRANSFERRING OUT OF DIGIPEN?!?!?!?!?!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

UncleBob · « **Reply #18 on:** May 03, 2007, 11:34:56 PM »

They should consider relocating to the beautiful, wonderful, fun filled metropolis of Carmi, Illinois. Lots of land here, if they don't mind building on a cornfield.

Smoke39 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 04, 2007, 12:07:55 AM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
TRANSFERRING OUT OF DIGIPEN?!?!?!?!?!

Yeah, I hated it there. But that's a rant for another thread.

Pale · « **Reply #20 on:** May 04, 2007, 01:32:42 AM »

Come to upstate new york! Screw the city!

Shecky · « **Reply #21 on:** May 04, 2007, 01:39:41 AM »

Pleanty of space in Ohio.... considering there's not much here. (Really, if it's space they're after, then the central states make more sense - unless my perception of how big NOA is right now is way off)

ShyGuy · « **Reply #22 on:** May 04, 2007, 02:36:44 AM »

What would happen to the Mariners?

KDR_11k · « **Reply #23 on:** May 04, 2007, 02:37:59 AM »

They wanted to be far away from the Microsoft HQ before they nuke MS from orbit.

BiLdItUp1 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 04, 2007, 05:18:09 AM »

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Originally posted by: Pale
Come to upstate new york! Screw the city!

To which I'm required to reply: Come to the city! Screw upstate new york!

Honestly, this makes no difference to me. If they move a development team here, it'd be a lot more noteworthy. What would the marketing dept. bring to NYC or SanFran, other than a bunch of execs?

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