Following up on our story from yesterday, which revealed new job postings for positions that would seem to currently belong to Nintendo of America execs Perrin Kaplan and Beth Llewelyn, GameDaily BIZ has obtained new information that indicates that George Harrison, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Communications, will indeed be leaving the company in the near future.

An industry source at a major publisher has discovered and revealed to us that Harrison today circulated an internal voice message at Nintendo of America announcing his "early retirement."

It's not clear at the moment if this means simply his departure from Nintendo or retirement from a career in the video game industry in general. Our source did confirm that Harrison will aid in the sales and marketing transition (as he previously told us at E3) to Redwood City and New York, but soon after things settle down he would leave. An exact timeframe for his leaving Nintendo is still not known; it could come as soon as this holiday period.

Harrison has been with Nintendo of America since 1992. He joined the company not long after the launch of the hugely popular SNES, which made its debut in North America in August of 1991. Harrison has played a key role in business development related to every major Nintendo platform since that time.

Nintendo has yet to confirm the departure of any of the three execs.