Rampin Up

I always wonder who’s reading this, if anyone. Mostly, I’m writing this stuff for me so I can remember it some years from now. Anyway… I digress.

It’s been an exceptionally busy last couple months at work and with the family.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 launched and is doing almost exactly the forecasts I pegged for it nine months ago. Our preorders were spot on marketing’s goals (nice work guys). Sales has hits its numbers so far. It’ll have a challenge the next couple weeks to get to the final goal but they’re going to be extremely close if they do happen to miss (likely 98% or so). I’m very proud of the sales and marketing team as they did a great job across the board. The game team has also mostly delivered as North American reviews have been on target (something I know Seth has also helped a great deal with).

We’re ramping up for the Okamiden and Super Street Fighter IV: 3D edition… the later of which we have a lot of programs running with Nintendo on. It’s been probably the shortest, fastest ramp in a product launch I’ve ever been a part of and there’s been a number of leaps of faith that we’ve made. Fortunately, I think they’re going to pay off. I’ll talk more about that in April when we’re past the launch.

I’ve had a variety to legal and HR things keeping me extremely busy at work (confidential, natch). A ton of deals in the works with a variety of partners that I’m at the center at (also confidential). I just got back from three productive days in LA for meetings with Dorna and Microsoft. This coming week I’ll be holing up in a suite at the St. Regis for four days. Sharon will be coming out to SF to stay with me on Friday night. We’ve got a nice dinner planned at a Peruvian place to celebrate her birthday. Then Saturday morning, I hop a flight to Japan for a week.

The week after that, I’ll be back in the office for a slew of meetings through Thursday.. then we’re hopping on a big Disney boat with the family for a week. Sharon’s and and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary and Kaiya will be along too. She loves Disney cruises and I really couldn’t recommend them enough. I’ll post pictures soon.

On the real estate front, all of Sharon’s efforts have paid off and we have a tenant moving in at the end of this week. Should be a very long-term tenant (fingers crossed). And we’re likely to start looking for another property in the area around June or so. I’d be surprised if we didn’t have another by the end of the year.