Denise Kaigler is best known from her position as Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America. Or at least she was until yesterday. During a written Q&A segment on IGN’s website, Kaigler took the opportunity to tell readers that she was leaving the company, effective immediately.

“It’s a fact of life that job and family often pull us in opposite directions,” said Kaigler. “It has been a fantastic adventure, but the time has come where I need to choose one over the other … and I have to choose my family.”

Denise was often seen as several high profile Nintendo events, including the Wii Sports Resort launch in Times Square. Kaigler started the position in February 2008.

IGN

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You can forget that the Xbox 360 and PS3 both received price cuts in the last few weeks.  According to an interview with Nintendo of America’s Denise Kaigler, it was their intention all along to drop the price before the start of the 2009 Holiday season, regardless of the competition.

“We’re about to launch a couple of very strong titles,” said Kaigler.  “We announced [earlier] the launch date for Super Mario Bros. Wii. We just launched Wii Sports Resort. On October 4, we’ll launch Wii Fit Plus. With the great content that has already launched on Wii and is soon to launch on Wii, the timing is right to give consumers even more incentive to go out and purchase the industry’s best-selling home video console.”

Additionally, Kaigler noted that Nintendo is going after a group of 50 million eager consumers they believe reside in North America, all ready to pick up a Wii but haven’t due to circumstances.  They believe a price drop with great new software titles will equal the right incentive.

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Being the third iteration of a handheld can be rough, just ask the Micro, but that hasn’t stopped the DSi from continuing Nintendo’s assault on wallets across the world. In fact, according to Denise Kaigler in a chat with IGN, the DSi has done a better job than any of the company’s recent platforms. With more than 1.7 million sales in the US in the first 3 months it outreaches the DS (1.38) the DS Lite (1.07) and even the Wii (1.52).

This comes a quite a surprise, personally. Especially with the lack of a big title released to help it out. The platform may pick up more steam this fall with the release of several games that raise the superhappyfuntime level a few notches, ie Scribblenauts, Zelda, Mario & Luigi, Prof. Layton, etc.

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