https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUF091LS0Z00C23A8000000/
>Nintendo announces that their new development headquarters is being delayed from 2027 to 2028
>But the reason is because they're making so much fricking they decided to slap an additional floor to the thing, going up to 13 floors.
>Also announced that they're cancelling all plans to move any existing staff to the new building, instead Corporate Headquarters Development Center, Building No. 2 will be entirely dedicated to forming completely new development teams
Nintendo is just humiliated this entire industry with how much money they're printing, and it's only going to increase 13 fold once this new building is completed.
>they're making so much fricking
All of the nintendo execs are having daily orgies with jav stars after the success of totk
nintendo is developing sex 2
frick
>The 13th floor is gonna be love hotels.
>Offers costume options to dress your girl in various Nintendo ladies.
Back to their roots baby!
Live look inside Nintendo's headquarters
maybe nintendo will now have as much employee as the genshin impact company
>Mihoyo: 5,000 employees
>Nintendo: 7,300
???
whoops mixed up tencent and Mihoyo
When you're over bloated with redundant employees and all you do is buy other over bloated companies with redundant employees, it's not a surprise to have over 100k employees but it's also not something to be proud about.
Tencent is both a branch of the Chinese government and an ownership group so that's not a fair comparison
>Mihoyo: 5,000 employees
Half of those employees are keyboard warrior paid to shill gachashit on the internet
What the frick I thought you guys told me Nintendo was losing money and became the laughing stock of the industry
>they're making so much fricking
Proof read your posts frens
I-Is Nintendo finally entering the eroge industry?
>they're making so much fricking
>corporate mandated orgy quota every week
Sign me up
>>But the reason is because they're making so much fricking
People get fricked at Nintendo?
Game design isn't for virgins.
Hey, go big or go home!
2028? Why would it take so long to make that building? I could build a building with 13 floors in a year (I'm an architect)
Because its japanese steel is folded 1000 times, anon. What kind of question is that.
While other companies are delaying games, Nintendo is delaying buildings
This means Nintendo is going to work on games for their neglected IPs, right?
Right?
Maybe, but really most new blood that they would hire are probably going to want to make their own games.
Amerisharts would never
Didn't Iwata take less than $500k for his own salary, even before the Wii U?
He at least slashed his salary to make up for the money the company lost during the 3DS's bad launch
How do you just fill a new 13 floor development building? Can you really just hire people on mass? But Nintendo is known to be super picky avout who they hire. Also Nintendo is now guarenteed to dominate the 2030s
They said adding the 13th floor is to cater to a "long-term increase in development personnel" so it's likely they will slowly fill up the building over many years.
>open new building
>liquidate it when the Switch U inevitably flops
It's a cycle. Next console will flop, the one after that will for some reason fricking explode in popularity.
If they have one that flops they'll be forced to seriously reconsider their strategy because they don't have a handheld to fall back on
There will be no more flops.
Mainline Pokemon is all they need to boost the sales of any console.
Yeah agreed. Such a shame too since game freak can't make a 3D game for the life of them but the series still sells record amounts.
But it is the handheld to fall back on. The handheld line and the home console line are now one in the same. A Nintendo handheld has never flopped. As much as I hate that series, it's pretty clear that no console with mainline Pokemon games can flop. The people who think the next console will flop because of a percieved cycle are fricking morons
Why is this thread so slow? Isn't this big news? Of course we already knew about this building but the rest of the industry should fear Nintendo getting bigger. They'll expand into more genres and start taking their marketshare
Shitposters are too busy making and remaking ballcucks gays threads.
Or accusing everyone who doesn't agree with them "tendies" like if someone raped their asses and their damn family.
>Also announced that they're cancelling all plans to move any existing staff to the new building, instead Corporate Headquarters Development Center, Building No. 2 will be entirely dedicated to forming completely new development teams
That's actually huge deal because it mean another shopping spree around companies and for new blood.
Ton of companies must be sweating bullets.
All the SE staff scared of having to find work after their company goes bankrupt are probably very relieved
Not really that much, they handpick staff.
SE has a lot of top tier staff, it's just that they're screwed over constantly by moronic management and moronic Directors.
And this is Nintendo, the world's best at tard wrangling.
Lot of squaresoft people fricked off back on 00s.
Monolith, Cygames, Mistwalk, Grezzo, L5... All have ex squaresoft staff if not SE.
They still have a lot of really good talent to this day, they have a lot of amazing artists, designers, programmers, programmers for creating in house game engines, etc.
A lot of them just don't reach their full potential because of moronic upper management,
Monolith exists solely because Square Enix executives said No more Xenogears
Monolith had frick all discipline through most of their history, on top of near zero experience developing game.
Took till xenosaga 3 to get used with proper dev tools and such. Nintendo slapped them hard with Xenoblade by requesting a game first ,and have a very short leash when comes to new ideas and game scope.
Sounds harsh but really works, even for incompetent ass fricks like mercury stream, and nobody ever complains.
This is peak moronic ignorance.
Xenosaga 1 was a huge success
The frick up with Xenosaga 2 wasn't even on them as that was forced over to a different dev to save money.
Xenosaga was one of the best looking games on PS2 and was a phenomenal game, just got screwed over because of XS2.
XB1 was the biggest game they ever made and one of the largest game worlds that existed at the time, just held back by Wii hard but was also impressive because they pulled it off on the Wii U.
Xenoblade X is one of the most ambitious open worlds ever made and was the foundation for the creation of Breath of the Wild and why they a key part of that game's development.
Xenoblade 2 got screwed over because they only had 40 people left over who weren't on BotW duty and had to outsource a lot, but even then the game does some impressive stuff and helped improve their modeling and animation skills that would truly take fruit in Xenoblade 3.
Monolith needed a tard wrangler hard.
Neither SE or namco had proper leash on them, on top of that first XB game wasn't even supposed to be a xeno game.
Square screwing them over because they refused to give any extra money for anything not final fantasy was not on them.
The new CEO after the Bandai Namco merger screwing them over was also not on them.
moron.
Not Square Enix, just Square. Monolithsoft was founded in 1999
Talks for the merger only began in 2000 and wasn't completed until 2003.
But what he said is still obviously true, though it's not particularly related to this thread. Remember it was because of Spirits Within that Xenogears didn't get a sequel
Would poaching be considered a shopping spree?
>Be small to mid size dev.
>John nintendo walk and offer moneys for your best codemonkey.
>Naturally he fricks off with them not only due money but also experience.
Guess.
Buy platinum and grasshopper, Nintendo. Do it
I wish, to wrangle Platinum in and to give Grasshopper the budget it deserves, but it says "completely new development teams"
Platinum devs have a reputation of being prima donnas. They won't fit Nintendo culture
What's a "Prima donnas"?
Annoying c**ts, basically.
Wow maybe with all of these extra employees they can make actual games that don’t look like mobile games
>Nintendo is just humiliated
Ok then
I mean good for them I guess, but it's just a building, and taking this long for just one building seems kinda crazy.
They are building on a populated area not some corner of prefecture, those things take lot of legal bs and licensing.
Kind of a boring looking building.
What, you want them to paint it pretty colors and add murals of Mario and Link or something?
Yeah, that'd be ludo.
that would be incredibly cringe
>“A delayed development building is eventually good, but a rushed building is bad forever”
- Shigeru Miyamoto’s General Contractor
Why not construct underground floors like a dungeon?
Nintendo is just waiting to wring out every last bit of talent out of whatever Japanese publisher Microsoft is going to pounce on.
They are worried about tecent not MS. Besides Nintendo is on a very privileged position where they can ask anyone for games.
Even sony need work some deals.