Topic: Perrin Kaplan to Return to Gaming

[Nick DiMola]

Former Nintendo of America Vice President will be making a return to gaming via her new company Zebra Partners once her non-compete agreement with Nintendo ends.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16657

 Perrin Kaplan, former Nintendo of America Vice President for Marketing and Corporate Affairs, made an appearance at this year's Penny Arcade Expo to speak on a panel about sex and violence in gaming.    

"I have not left the gaming industry for good. I love it," said Kaplan during her discourse on the panel. Due to a non-compete clause in her Nintendo contract, she is not able to take her new company, Zebra Partners, into the gaming arena until December of this year. The Zebra Partners website currently offers no further information on the company's activities.    

Kaplan earned another hearty applause while on panel stating that "parents who use videogames as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with."

[Nick DiMola]

lolz

[Crimm]

...great

[Kairon]

<3

[BeautifulShy]

Well it is good to know that Kairon's interest is coming back to gaming.

[Kairon]

Please everyone, click on the Link in Mr. Jack's post. On the second page of the thread I link to GameInformer videos of an interview that Perrin Kaplan did with Billy Berghammer at E3 2006... and she's just amazing in it. True Jedi powers... how does she say so much, have so much fun, be so conversational, yet give away so little?

[BeautifulShy]

I read that thread Kairon. I was only joking.
Seriously it is great that she is coming back.

[Kairon]

I wonder now though if she'll find herself called upon to use her powers against Nintendo, instead of for them?

[BeautifulShy]

Hmm... I don't know I feel about that.

[ThePerm]

i always said that i didn't like Perrin Kapplan, but that was more because she was a middle person. If she runs her own company she can know what she is doing, but be very secretive about it

[KDR_11k]

Kaplan did occassionally say things, they always turned out horribly wrong. Didn't she claim the Wii would be region free?

[ShyGuy]

Perrin creepily flirting with Matt Cassamassina: http://media.wii.ign.com/articles/708/708093/vids_1.html

[Kairon]

Perrin creepily flirting with Matt Cassamassina: http://media.wii.ign.com/articles/708/708093/vids_1.html

Ooh, thanks. Downloading now.

[Halbred]

Oh, yay. Perrin always struck me a cold, impersonal, and...well...mean. As though doing interviews was the last possible thing she'd like to be doing right then. You know, below going to a wake. For a loved one. Like her own mother.

[Kairon]

Oh, yay. Perrin always struck me a cold, impersonal, and...well...mean. As though doing interviews was the last possible thing she'd like to be doing right then. You know, below going to a wake. For a loved one. Like her own mother.

Really? The two interviews mentioned in this thread, the one with Matt on the floor, and the one with Billy Berghammer, both struck me as excitingly non-standard interviews. Most interviews are really dry, but whether or not Perrin enjoyed these interviews or not, they've always just stuck out in my view as memorable and entertaining to watch... like there was some actual non-scripted playing going on there.

[oohhboy]

Given the level of opponent she comes up against, I m not surprised she does get a little bored. Hence how playful she is with her interviews. Sure, your not really getting any information, but you can't help but be entertained by it all.

Of course she has fallen on her own sword with here region-free comment and such. But it isn't Bush level of stupid where you have comments like "You will work a second job to get a PS3" or "There is no reliability issues with the 360".

Now things from Nintendo are just as sterile as they are from Sony and MS.