Cammie Dunaway Leaving Nintendo on October 1

Nintendo of America has announced that executive vice president of sales & marketing Cammie Dunaway will be leaving the company on October 1, 2010. Here’s a press release quote from NOA CEO Reggie Fils-Aime:

We appreciate Cammie’s contributions to Nintendo and the role she played in bringing the Wii and Nintendo DS experiences to millions of people.

Dunaway is a smart executive that got a lot of heat (deservedly so) for trying way too hard at her first Nintendo E3 press conference. While that had very little to do with her actual job, hardcore gamers never forgave that “performance”. Gamers never warmed up to her the same way they embraced Nintendo executives like Fils-Aime and Satoru Iwata.

What do you think of Dunaway leaving Nintendo? Is it related to the Wii’s declining sales? Is it a warning sign? Are you happy she’s gone? Or do you not give a damn about executives at console companies?

Author: RPadTV

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4 thoughts on “Cammie Dunaway Leaving Nintendo on October 1”

  1. i don't give a damn. She struck me as disingenuous. Kotick strikes me as a leech who is out to whore his products and customers.

  2. @smartguy It's funny how public personas work. I don't think Cammie was disingenuous, but rather she was trying to hard to keep up with the other big, established personalities on stage. Kotick was actually pretty likable at DICE — it was almost shocking. It's easy to forget that most of these people are different from their public perception.

  3. @Ray

    Definitely. By disingenuous I mean that she didn't strike me as the kind of person who would actually use her company's product. It looked so damn fake. I'm sure Kotick is a nice enough person to have a beer with or invite to a crawfish boil. I have to call him a spreadsheet CEO though. He is so similar to Ed Whitacre. He knows big business and will cater to the short term shareholder. Ed Whitacre really threw a wrench into the internet business and Kotick is doing the same for the gaming business.

  4. All I have to say is "she" did not do anything that made me want to buy a DS and had zero contributions to my purchase decision. Nintendo's good hardware and innovation did.

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