Nintendo to Expand With New Development Building - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 December 2021 / 2,640 Views
Nintendo is working on expanding its development with two new office expansions in order to develop more games in-house, rather than outsourcing to third-party developers.
The first planned expansion will be in a building in Kyoto City that is currently under construction and expected to be ready to move in starting in May 2022. The rented space will be 8,500 square meters on the sixth and seventh floors. It is located right next to Nintendo's current headquarters.
Nintendo as part of Kyoto City’s Corporate Location Promotion System will be giving up to 160 million yen ($1.41 million) every year for three years to cover some of its operation costs, depending on how many employees it hires.
The second is a brand-new building that is being built on the site of Nintendo's former headquarters. It is currently the site of the Nintendo Kyoto Research Center and its Mario Club QA team. However, it has a large empty area.
Thanks, Nikkei.
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I want to see more of this in the industry: investing in creating new studios from scratch, instead of purchasing already existing 3rd party studios.
Depends on the studios.
If it's a small scale support studio that has worked closely or almost exclusively with them like Next Level Games or MercurySteam, then I don't mind.
But if it's something like Microsoft buying Bethesda, THAT'S when I have a problem with it.
come on eternal darkness remaster and follow up game!
Hope that they get cracking on a new f-zero, starfox and donkey Kong games once this building is completed, even though i know they won't.
I don't think Star-Fox and Donkey Kong are dead. In fact, I'd be surprised if both franchises don't already have the next game in production.
Regarding F-Zero...
Good joke.
This will take years. A new DK should be made way earlier than that.
DK TF came out 7 years ago that's why i'm a bit pessimistic about a new game, you're right though a new game is due.
There's already a rumored DK game. Wouldn't be surprised to see DK drop next year.
First you need more powerful hardware... check out the Matrix demo running on Series S. No reason why Nintendo can't give us a $300 PS5 competitor on 5nm in 2022. RTX 4050 ti or something.
It's great to see Nintendo prioritizing the expansion of their resources. Time will tell how this translates to releases and scheduling. One thing people have to remember is that this comes mostly out of necessity than anything else. All of their internal development teams are getting ready to shift gears towards their next console. If the Switch was essentially a portable and just slightly more powerful PS3/Wii U, the Switch 2 will be a portable and just slightly more powerful PS4/Xbox One - maybe even slightly touching Pro/One X territory depending on the game and tech where it's capable of 4K output. Which is going to look amazing... but it also takes a FUCK TON of time and resources to pull off. Resources they don't entirely have at the moment and time that they will need for their crop of new devs and staff to adjust to.
I guess there is prestige in being a Kyoto based company.
I think it should depend on the game or series.
You use Metroid as an example. I agree with you regarding Metroid Prime and/or 3D Metroid in general like Other M that they'd be much better off doing it themselves than going through the development hell those two went through that led to a mediocre product (Other M) or development being restarted from scratch (Prime 4).
But regarding 2D Metroid? They should just let MercurySteam keep making them (for as long as they are willing and able to anyway.) I think they've done a great enough job and proven themselves to the point where they can be trusted and know what they're doing.
Same goes for Retro Studios with Donkey Kong Country, Grezzo with 2D and 3D Zelda remakes (I personally would love to see them take, and be given, a shot at making their own Zelda game from scratch), Good-Feel with Yoshi, Next Level Games with Luigi's Mansion. and Intelligent Systems with Wario Ware.
Basically, any new IPs or franchises that are struggling should be taken in house. But the ones that have been doing great the way they have been? They should continue as is.
Literally.
Yep , but the whole story is about extra office / floor space combined with the usual incentives from the local council/city that seems to be par for the course theses day no matter what city you live in , very little regarding the expanded development mentioned in the title but hopefully we will learn more about that side soon.
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