Scott Moffitt, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nintendo of America.
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Nintendo’s sales chief: 2016 may not be a ‘transition year’ — and what this means for 2015 (update)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Updated 3:01 p.m.: We corrected Nintendo of America’s Scott Moffitt’s comment that the 3DS had 50 million units installed in the United States.

LOS ANGELES — Scott Moffitt doesn’t want to talk about Nintendo’s new NX console or its mobile gaming relationship with DeNA. That’s so 2016. But Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sales and marketing is very chatty when it comes to touting the big games that the publisher has coming to its dedicated fans for the 3DS and Wii U gaming devices in 2015.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.