<![CDATA[Kotaku: Perrin Kaplan]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Perrin Kaplan]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/perrin kaplan http://kotaku.com/tag/perrin kaplan <![CDATA[Using Video Games As Babysitter? Don't Have Sex]]> She's baaack! While game exec Perrin Kaplan left Nintendo back, she hasn't totally left gaming. Kaplan left the company when Nintendo of America shifted is base from Washington to Northern California. She's started her own company, Zebra Partners, and plans to expand into gaming once her non-compete contract with Nintendo is up this December. At PAX, she told Game|Life's Chris Kohler: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5044091&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dumb Exec Quote Round-Up Rodeo]]> Sometimes game execs say razor sharp things. Those moments we quickly forget. Sometimes they say jug-headed things. Those moments we remember. Forever. Over at Game|Life, they're voting on their favorite foot-in-mouth quotes from game execs. A quick round-up for you to laugh and point at: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327776&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nintendo Has No Plans with Bungie]]> While Halo DS wasn't "real," the game wasn't some figment of our imagination. Now that Bungie has freed itself from Microsoft's clutches, the developer must be ready to spread its wings. And since Nintendo of America is so darn close, there's a partnership just waiting to happen, right? Erm, no, says Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan. Her take on a possible relationship with the Halo studio: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313847&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Before The Wii, Gamers Were Bored]]> We don't know about you, but before the Nintendo Wii, we'd given up on video games altogether. We were bored—bored out of our minds—filling our days with the alternating events of drooling in our Play-Doh and hitting our head against the wall because only pain could make the pain stop. But then, as Perrin Kaplan explains, Nintendo realized the Wii could fix things:
A major insight that Nintendo had early on was that they saw that gamers were getting bored, even though they didn't know it yet...
Yeah, we just thought we loved Play-Doh. But who doesn't? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=310894&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Perrin Makes Dean Takahashi Stiff]]> As reported yesterday, America's hottest VP of marketing Perrin Kaplan is leaving Nintendo, which is very sad for me because I never got a chance to flirt with her shamelessly in the course of an interview - one of the reasons I took this gig in the first place. That lucky bastard Dean Takahashi of The Mercury News conducted an exit interview of sorts with Kaplan, reflecting on her 15 years at Nintendo. Together they touch on the company's success, her respect for Miyamoto, mud wrestling, and each other.
She noted how she used to try to give me hugs over the years and I would always be stiff about that. (I have always thought it awkward to hug the people I write about). But Perrin gave me a hug as I walked out and I pretended to be stiff.
Pretended? Dean totally faked it! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=310104&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Third Nintendo Exec Bails]]> George Harrison quit. Beth Llewelyn quit. It was inevitable, today Reuters reports that the last of the three Nintendo execs on the verge of ditching NOA over a force move has left the building. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=309796&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stroke Victims Find New Lease On Limbs With Wii Sports]]> A Minneapolis hospital has become the latest unwitting Nintendo viral marketer with its new rehabilitation plan. The Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute at Minneapolis' Abbott Northwestern Hospital aims to aid patients who have suffered from strokes by giving them access to the popular Wii pack-in, Wii Sports, and a Wii-mote, putting the fun back in motor function recovery. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=287433&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Take Perrin Kaplan's Job And Love It!]]> Following rumors that Nintendo of America employees Perrin Kaplan, George Harrison and Beth Llewelyn would not be making the move to Nintendo's new digs, come steaming fresh job postings for some of those very positions. The GameDaily business types dug up a listing for Kaplan's VP of Corporate Affairs job, as well as Llewelyn's Sr. Director of Corporate Communications gig, possibly indicating that things didn't quite work out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=284107&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Perrin/Beth Still at NOA]]> Remember that rumor that Beth Llewelyn, Perrin Kaplan and George Harrison, were among the 60 percent who decided to leave Nintendo of America rather than relocate to San Francisco or New York? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278644&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nintendo Power Lives, Goes Third-Party]]> It appears that reports of Nintendo Power's death have been greatly exaggerated. Or slightly misinterpreted. While changes are afoot in the marketing department at Nintendo—that division is relocating some to San Francisco, some to New York City—the Nintendo-branded magazine will indeed live on. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=263765&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Gamecube Lives On!]]>
Hear that knocking sound? That's the GameCube, desperately kicking at the underside of its coffin lid as the gaming community tries to bury it based solely on the word of one woman - Nintendo of America's VP of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Perrin Kaplan. Silly us. What would a VP of marketing know about console and software production? Not much at all apparently, as Nintendo has confirmed with Eurogamer that the platform is still alive and well. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=239090&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[IGN's Matt and Perrin, Sitting in a Tree]]> Love is in the air today, so I thought I'd join 4 color rebellion in spotlighting the deep love that one VP of Marketing shares with a journalist who makes a living reporting on her product. IGN recently posted a video of Matt interviewing Perrin Kaplan in which she accosts him with the all the enthusiasm of a drunk college girl, only with more PR lingo. This is the sort of thing that happens when you work closely with marketing people for too long. They start to bond with you. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=236702&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kotaku Magu: Perrin Says Nintendo Is "Profit Oriented"]]> Don't let Mario's overalls fool you, Nintendo likes money just as the next console maker. No surprises there — Memories do come flooding back to when Nintendo announced Wii pricing and many flipped out at parting with US $250 as opposed to the rumored $199. Newsweek's got a piece up on the Wii about demand for the machine, the radio contest fiasco and a few blurbs from Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan. Regarding the contest, Kaplan offered her condolences and stressed that Nintendo had nothing to do with it. Regarding the shortages, she said: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=230970&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wii Component Cables Fetch High Prices On eBay]]> Despite HDTV having such a low install base in North America, it seems that demand for hi-def component cables for the Nintendo Wii are in great demand. Who woulda thunk it? Certainly not Nintendo! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=216471&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nintendo: Format War Is Totally Unfair.]]>
We're in the midst of a format war with HD-DVD and Blu-ray duking it out and me wondering why the hell they can't get along. There's money to be made, consumers to be screwed and some Nintendo exec doesn't like it. Good for him. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=214544&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wii Component Cables Online Only (Pause) Not!]]>
Remember when we said that Wii component cables would be an online only affair? And that I got a little cranky and stomped around like an infant on Kotaku about it? Well, either we were fed bum info, or Nintendo has decided to throw caution to the wind and sell component cables at brick and mortar stores. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=212458&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nintendo America Confirms Their Boner: "Wii Not Region Free"]]>
Just in case there was still a hope fleeting through that last ounce of grey matter that Nintendo UK's David Yarnton was drunkenly ranting over a pint about the Wii not being region-free, you can officially dash it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=201852&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kaplan Talks Blue Ocean, Revolution]]> In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo's vice president of marketing and corporate affairs for Nintendo of America, Perrin Kaplan reveals some interesting tidbits about the Revolution's virtual console and additional WiFi plans for the system. She also discusses Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy, which essentially boils down to the creation of unique properties designed to meet the needs of others outside of the "Red Ocean" (Microsoft and Sony's cannibalizing of eachother's business). In Kaplan's own words: "Seeing a blue ocean is the notion of creating a market where there initially was none—going out where nobody has yet gone." More »
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