{"id":1481402,"date":"2021-11-01T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77453\/nintendo-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:52:00","slug":"nintendo-is-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/nintendo-is-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is closing offices in California and Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nintendo-is-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/company\/3\/nintendo\/\">Nintendo<\/a>&nbsp;has announced that it intends to close two of its North American offices located in California and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Employees will be given the option to move to Nintendo&#8217;s country HQs in Redmond, Washington and Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently unknown whether all employees (roughly 100) will stay with the company.<\/p>\n<p>California and Toronto were home to Nintendo\u2019s marketing, sales, and retail relations departments.<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs such as these are unusual coming from Nintendo, with the last time something like this happened on such a scale being in Europe in 2014..<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the closing offices has come in tandem with the resignation of Nick Chavez, senior vice president of sales and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Devon Pritchard, executive vice president of business affairs and publisher relations, will now lead both sales and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Bowser held this position previously before becoming the current Nintendo of America president, but in Devon Pritchard\u2019s case, it will be in an interim capacity.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77453\/nintendo-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto\/\">Source: http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77453\/nintendo-closing-offices-in-california-and-toronto\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1481403,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[132],"artist":[142],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[7271,3620,5447,5381,5210,5254,3739,5996,6032,7323,5588,3857,3632,5597,6002,5460,5402,3747,3643,3646,5616,3827,3657,3862,8367,5738,6478,5428,8945,6961,3675,3837,6432,3683,3690,3692,5698,8883,5499,5784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1481402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1481402"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1481402"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1481402"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1481402"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1481402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}