{"id":129642,"date":"2022-11-11T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140910"},"modified":"2022-11-11T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:45:00","slug":"random-doug-bowser-takes-a-trip-to-nintendos-kyoto-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/11\/random-doug-bowser-takes-a-trip-to-nintendos-kyoto-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Doug Bowser Takes A Trip To Nintendo&#8217;s Kyoto Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc2049bea1d69\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc2049bea1d69\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Nintendo\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc2049bea1d69\/nintendo.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc2049bea1d69\/nintendo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: via Twitter (@thetruebowser)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo of America&#8217;s president Doug Bowser appears to be catching up with his bosses over at the main headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. He recently shared a shot of the office in a post on social media and followed up with photos of the new Osaka store, which is now open.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good to be back\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kyoto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kyoto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nintendo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nintendo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rYKYx95ZH9\">pic.twitter.com\/rYKYx95ZH9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Doug Bowser (@thetruebowser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetruebowser\/status\/1590318606239551488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Osaka store opened in the Daimaru Umeda building today in Japan and follows on from stores in New York and Tokyo. The goal of the company&#8217;s stores is to &#8220;not only sell Nintendo-related products&#8221; but to act as a touchpoint for consumers to connect with Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox&#8217;s head Phil Spencer, who has been busy building Xbox&#8217;s presence within Japan for some time now, even left a reply to Doug:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can&#8217;t wait to visit next time I&#8217;m in Osaka. Looks great.<\/span>\u2014 Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\/status\/1590763443342102528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Apart from the visit to the Osaka Nintendo store, it&#8217;s unclear what exactly Doug is up to in Japan at the moment. A requirement of his role though is to touch base with Nintendo&#8217;s HQ.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo also released its latest financial results earlier this week &#8211; revealing Switch sales have exceeded the 114 million mark. In saying this, YoY hardware sales have decreased by 19.2% due to semiconductor shortages.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:140636 @ 2022-11-11T05:55:50+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>If Doug gets up to anything else interesting during his time in Japan, we&#8217;ll update this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: via Twitter (@thetruebowser) Nintendo of America&#8217;s president Doug Bowser appears to be catching up with his bosses over at the main headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. He recently shared a shot of the office in a post on social media and followed up with photos of the new Osaka store, which is now open. Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}