Post by: WindyMan on May 03, 2007, 06:35:25 PM
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.
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on May 03, 2007, 06:54:52 PM
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Post by: familycircus 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.
Post by: WuTangTurtle on May 03, 2007, 07:40:16 PM
Post by: Kairon on May 03, 2007, 07:47:23 PM
...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
Post by: IceCold on May 03, 2007, 07:49:21 PM
QuoteYou'd probably need to know how to spell "marketing" too
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
Post by: Bloodworth on May 03, 2007, 08:21:00 PM
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Post by: ThePerm on May 03, 2007, 08:46:46 PM
the best time to relocate is at the end of the school year when the employees kids are finishing up classes
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on May 03, 2007, 08:57:20 PM
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Post by: Kairon on May 03, 2007, 11:14:36 PM
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: UncleBob on May 03, 2007, 11:34:56 PM
Post by: Smoke39 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.
Post by: Pale on May 04, 2007, 01:32:42 AM
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Post by: BiLdItUp1 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?
Post by: Strell on May 04, 2007, 05:30:33 AM
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.
Post by: Lnk64 on May 04, 2007, 05:54:38 AM
Post by: Bloodworth on May 04, 2007, 06:08:44 AM
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I forget where NST is located
NST is literally half a block from NOA.
Post by: Ceric on May 04, 2007, 06:10:52 AM
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.
Post by: vudu on May 04, 2007, 07:23:52 AM
Post by: Strell on May 04, 2007, 08:16:12 AM
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.
Post by: Donutt007 on May 04, 2007, 09:10:39 AM
Please....
Post by: decoyman on May 04, 2007, 09:26:22 AM
Could this be related?
Post by: TrueNerd on May 04, 2007, 12:09:34 PM
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Originally posted by: vudu
Chi-town, pls.
Seconded.
Post by: mac<censored> on May 04, 2007, 02:23:19 PM
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).
Post by: ThePerm on May 04, 2007, 03:04:09 PM
Post by: Ages on May 04, 2007, 04:07:05 PM
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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!
Post by: Smash_Brother on May 04, 2007, 04:15:43 PM
Seriously, no sales tax and it's a great place for businesses (it's where I started mine).
Post by: NWR_Lindy on May 04, 2007, 06:43:33 PM
Sales and Marketing can be moved relatively easily and the jobs can be done anywhere, so it might as well be New York City.
Post by: wulffman04 on May 05, 2007, 08:31:01 AM
Can't get any better than Oregon.
Post by: ShyGuy on May 05, 2007, 11:17:24 AM
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Post by: Shift Key on May 05, 2007, 03:17:48 PM
The disaster that is NAL needs to be documented somewhere. It is truly hilarious.
