Come on, go full in and just buy a popular Japanese mobile developer and make them a subsidiary
That would solve nothing. It is also a short term solution for a larger problem in and around the game developer community. Nintendo is right to attract younger talent this way rather than buy them and have the talent bleed away like in the past.
If you integrate them correctly an acquired studio can flourish as a subsidiary. Just look at pretty much every Sony first party studio. Every one of those was an independent studio at one point that was bought by Sony and integrated into the fold. Sure it might not always work (look at what happens to studios that go with ea) but it's not a bad idea.
The other titles might be developed mainly outside EPD. Intelligent Systems making Fire Emblem seems logical and even Animal Crossing could be done externally depending on what exactly the game is (NdCube on amiibo Festival for example).I'm more worried this means they aren't that far along in their smartphone endeavors.
Like they said they had what 5 games this fiscal year?
If they are just going on a hiring spree now it makes me wonder how far along the other titles beyond Miitomo are. I don't want them to just shit them out.
So right now, with the NX coming in less than a year, it's more important for Nintendo to have more mobile devs than console/portable devs. Bad news for NX. Wouldn't weird me if Nintendo changes their main business to mobile in 10 years or so.
So right now, with the NX coming in less than a year, it's more important for Nintendo to have more mobile devs than console/portable devs. Bad news for NX. Wouldn't weird me if Nintendo changes their main business to mobile in 10 years or so.
I feel like they should have done this a while ago.
Pretty much every Sony first party studio also includes Psygnosis, Evolution, Zipper, 989, Incognito, etc. Successfully going about this long term is more difficult than you let on and even a company with a relatively good track record at it like Sony is littered with corpses.If you integrate them correctly an acquired studio can flourish as a subsidiary. Just look at pretty much every Sony first party studio. Every one of those was an independent studio at one point that was bought by Sony and integrated into the fold. Sure it might not always work (look at what happens to studios that go with ea) but it's not a bad idea.
Pretty much every Sony first party studio also includes Psygnosis, Evolution, Zipper, 989, Incognito, etc. Successfully going about this long term is more difficult than you let on and even a company with a relatively good track record at it like Sony is littered with corpses.
Nintendo's own recent history of this goes back to the GC and early Wii era when they bought out some start ups (Retro, NdCube) and got Monolith as part of a stock deal when Bandai Namco merged. Other than that all their more recent acquistions or investments have been for mainly non-game development companies (Mobiclip/NERD, Wii no Ma/NSD, Pux). On the other hand Nintendo's also never closed or divested an internal game development studio that I'm aware of, which I believe is something no other major console publisher can claim (EA, Activision, Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft, Take Two, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, etc).
True but this might be exactly why Nintendo isn't interested in the Sony/MS buy 'em out model, they're pretty adamantly against layoffs. Even struggling divisions like NdCube have historically been restructured rather than closed.When you don't buy any studios it makes it harder to shut down studios.
They advertised for mobile developers in the US too a few months back
If you integrate them correctly an acquired studio can flourish as a subsidiary. Just look at pretty much every Sony first party studio. Every one of those was an independent studio at one point that was bought by Sony and integrated into the fold. Sure it might not always work (look at what happens to studios that go with ea) but it's not a bad idea.
When you don't buy any studios it makes it harder to shut down studios.
Cause of the pokeymanz?So i guess they will probably end up hiring even more mobile programmers for their Kyoto and Tokyo R&D.
How do you even get this from these news?
So right now, with the NX coming in less than a year, it's more important for Nintendo to have more mobile devs than console/portable devs. Bad news for NX. Wouldn't weird me if Nintendo changes their main business to mobile in 10 years or so.
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I prefer the name "Nintendogs Get!!".Nintendogs Go. Find stray animals on the street.