Nintendo Closes Redwood City, Toronto Offices

Nintendo has confirmed in a statement on Friday that it will close its Redwood City, California and Toronto, Canada offices.

According to reports by Kotaku, also confirmed by The Verge, about 100 employees have been displaced in the Redwood City offices as a result of the decision.

Here is the company’s full statement on the decision:

“Nintendo of America headquarters are in Redmond, WA, and Vancouver, BC. We are moving more of our employees and operations into those headquarters and will be closing small satellite offices in Toronto, ON, and Redwood City, CA, over time,”

“Devon Pritchard, Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and Publisher Relations for Nintendo of America (NOA), will assume interim leadership of Sales, Marketing and Communications following the departure of Nick Chavez. Ms. Pritchard will oversee strategy and execution of sales, marketing and communications across the U.S. and Canada.”

A description reads that the Redwood City office is still shown on a map of Nintendo’s office locations on the company’s jobs website.

“Here you’ll find the Sales and Marketing departments, as well as NMI, a dedicated merchandising field team who work with retail stores across the country,” The Toronto office is also still on the site, described as a “sales office for NOCL.”

According to Google caches, there were no open positions listed for the Redwood City location, even the company appears to have had an open role for a “Specialist, Experiential Marketing” as recently as two days ago.

The closure came after Nintendo launched its biggest games of the year the Nintendo Switch with an OLED screen and Metroid Dread.