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Now that the June deadline date for Nintendo of America staff has reared its head, the fallout from Nintendo's Sales and Marketing move has been leaked. According to our sources, approximately 90% of the Nintendo of America Sales and Marketing Staff has decided not to make the move to either San Francisco or New York, thereby taking a severance and leaving the company.

Three key executives will be leaving Nintendo of America, including Senior Director of Public Relations Beth Llewelyn; Vice President, Marking and Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan; and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Communications George Harrison. When these three will actually depart the company is unknown at this time, however, we're betting on the fact that they'll stay with Nintendo of America until the upcoming E3 show is over.

Currently, this basically wipes out the majority of Nintendo of America's key marketing executives. The only two major executives remaining at Nintendo of America include Chairman and CEO Tatsumi Kimishima and President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime. However, whether or not they will be packing a U-Haul and trekking to San Francisco or New York is unknown at this time.

Game Informer Online has interviewed all three of these executives countless times in the past years, and we wish them well in their future endeavors.

We have contacted our reps at Nintendo to get "official" word, and are still waiting to hear back with a statement.

Holy crap.
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HNB

Wow. So is NOA moving out of Seattle completely?

No, just their Sales and Marketing team. Everyone else stays.
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George Harisson is tight, he'll be missed. Everyone else? Meh. Matt's going to be crying though. Maybe Perrin can get a job at IGN.

Anyways, these people aren't leaving the company because they're being laid off (ala Sony), they're leaving because they don't want to move with the company...which is kind of a pretty legitimate reason that really doesn't have too much bearing on the company itself.

Beth Llewelyn does a fair job, and Kaplan has her fans. Regardless, even when people leave by themselves, it is often the sign that conflict is raging on the inside. I know they weren't laid off, but when you have three major execs who oppose the move, maybe there are some efforts and compensations upper management can consent to.
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kinopio

Beth Llewelyn does a fair job, and Kaplan has her fans. Regardless, even when people leave by themselves, it is often the sign that conflict is raging on the inside. I know they weren't laid off, but when you have three major execs who oppose the move, maybe there are some efforts and compensations upper management can consent to.

Yeah, but it could also mean that they don't want to up and move to another state. I'm sure they all have families and don't need something like this in their life. They are in marketing (they're really not big game players, as they've admitted themselves) and they'll be able to find new jobs. I just hope the new people are good.

Then again, things really could be wrong and Yamauchi could be extending his mighty pimp hand to America once more.

God Blessa!
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nenned

Could Perrin go to Microsoft? There has always been a good relationship between her and Moore. Maybe she's a mole!

MattyF

Lord Reggie-"Execute Order 66"

Reggie is an evil deformed sith lord?
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BEan

Reggie is an evil deformed sith lord?

The Sith aren't evil. They just have a different religious perspective of life.

I liked Perrin. Good to see Harrison leaving though, his E3 presentations nearly always bored me to tears.