Contrary to prior speculation, Nintendo of America has no intention of leaving their headquarters in Redmond, Washington completely deserted; Seattle-based newspaper 4 Color Rebellion) contacted Jim Roberts, deputy planning director for Redmond, who confirmed Nintendo was moving out roughly 80 employees from its sales, marketing and advertising divisions.
The rest of the company will remain in Redmond (according to the newspaper, there were 765 employees on the campus as of March 2005), but the aforementioned divisions will relocate to either New York or San Francisco -- allegedly sometime in 2007.