Topic: Nintendo Leaving Redmond Area?

[Strell]

Ok, I know for certain I read an article within the last...2 years at the latest, talking about how Nintendo was building a big huge new facility out in Redmond.

I could see them opening additional satellite offices, but I cannot see them picking up entirely out of Redmond.  They've got that huge store in NYC, so they probably want some of their business operations centered there.  I imagine they don't want to get away from Digipen, and I forget where NST is located (but they could move some stuff near it also).

Someone has to have the article I'm talking about above about a new building.  I was pretty sure it wasn't going to be done for a while.

[Lnk64]

Go to NYC. The east coast need some game development love. you have 1,263,992 game development companies on the west coast as it is

[Bloodworth]

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I forget where NST is located

NST is literally half a block from NOA.

[Ceric]

Nashville, TN.    Seriously though I would like more of a game business presence in the east.

Edit:  Also I see lots of stuff based out of Ohio.

[vudu]

Chi-town, pls.

[Strell]

Botticus over at CAG found the article I was talking about:

Nintendo building new facility in Redmond

January 2006.  So a little less than 1.5 years ago.  

The article does leave room of an agreement not being reached, so that would explain moving to another area.

I guess it doesn't really add all that much to the conversation then, really.

[Donutt007]

Oh, Nintendo, come to San Francisco......and let me work for you.

Please....

[decoyman]

A little bird recently told me that Nintendo was looking at expanding its merchandising department, among others, in the very near future...

Could this be related?

[TrueNerd]

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Originally posted by: vudu
Chi-town, pls.

Seconded.  

[mac<censored>]

Wow, after reading that my respect for Nintendo went up a bit (well I already respected Nintendo, but the US subsidiary always seemed a wee bit like the slightly dim kid brother).

The Bellevue/Redmond area is a really, really, awful place, a perfect example of generic soul-sapping sprawl and misguided development.  Nintendo deserves to be in a real city (and given the sad state of U.S. culture there are very few in the country, really).

[ThePerm]

Yuma, Az!! come on!!!

[Ages]

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

ditto!

[Smash_Brother]

Boston for a big city. New Hampshire for a TAX SHELTER.

Seriously, no sales tax and it's a great place for businesses (it's where I started mine).

[NWR_Lindy]

There's no way that Nintendo would ever move any development or localization out of Redmond.  It'd just be too much of a pain (just the thought of moving all that IT infrastructure makes me shudder, since I've been through that with a small company).  Besides, Redmond is closest to Japan, which has obvious business advantages (shorter flights, for one).

Sales and Marketing can be moved relatively easily and the jobs can be done anywhere, so it might as well be New York City.

[wulffman04]

Medford, Oregon anyone, huh... sounds good to me.  Nice green trees and blue sky.
Can't get any better than Oregon.

[ShyGuy]

Are you Evan's dupe?

[stevey]

Please be NYC, or better yet nintendo could always move to Trenton, there tons of space and old factorys to build offices there.....  

[Shift Key]

Come to Australia, we need a real Nintendo presence.

The disaster that is NAL needs to be documented somewhere. It is truly hilarious.