foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Ive never seen a building that actually finished in my lifetime.
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Images of construction for Nintendo's new Kyoto headquarters
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Entryhazard
Banned
Looks like 2 headquarters duct taped together
spyroflame0487
Member
Happening? It's great though if they can get the teams in the same area though; the handhelds and the home consoles should be able to do things together better. To me, 3DS still feels like it's part of the Wii and DS family than the Wii U's family.
But can it run Crysis?
H_Prestige
Banned
Holy shit, that old HQ looks so depressing. That's where they made all their games?
HQ has gone HD.
DonMigs85
Member
An army of Pikmin is being assembled now to carry the data over
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I can't believe they're spending so much money on a new building. Yamauchi would never have allowed that to happen.
Yamauchi let the Virtual Boy happen.
Captain Smoker
Member
Yeah, they're crazy to expand for the HD-generation and unify their divisions to increase their profitability.
Yeah, I remember it being quite a bit larger. Deceiving pics!red is the new building, blue is the old one. im sure employees will be happy they have bigger windows and no longer have to bunk bed their desks due to space.
red is the new building, blue is the old one. im sure employees will be happy they have bigger windows and no longer have to bunk bed their desks due to space.
So, the new building occupies the whole red-marked area? That's around 3-4 times the first building.
Hopefully, we'll see the results of handheld and home teams together right at the start of next handheld gen.
whoa you weren't kiding
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they seem to design their buildings like their UI's for their hardware.
They're consolidating their teams so that R&D on games and hardware happen faster and they can all share information instantly so that we don't have the fragmenting like with 3DS and WiiU.
the area in red was a vacant lot according to google maps. Nintendo bought the land and built a new building. they are moving both the console and handheld teams which were in separate buildings into the new one. there should be a fair amount of extra space left over so hopefully that means new teams for more Nintendo software in the future. having everyone together is good business which is strange since this is Nintendo.
next gen handheld is years off. well probably see some results this gen providing wiiU survives.
Finally, I'd add. This will pay off a lot in the future, especially for things like hardware components and OS. About the results, we could start seeing something on Wii U/3DS, but it's with 3DS successor that we should see the real results of the new organisation.
Actually I read it was to have R&D in the same house. The current R&D is still at the former HQ, shared with Intelligent Systems.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
red is the new building, blue is the old one. im sure employees will be happy they have bigger windows and no longer have to bunk bed their desks due to space.
That shit's cray
BoosterDuck
Banned
let's hope this place has decent wifi
You guys...Heh, this is why I keep coming back.
BishopLamont
Banned
Surprised to see this finish so quickly, should bode well for Wii U and 3DS' late life and their next-gen consoles.
Mutanthands
Member
The 3DS is already 3 years old as of next month. IMHO, we'll get at least a DSi style reimagining in 2 years, if not a successor system. I'm betting on a successor.
I'M FINISHED!
Um exCUSE me Sakurai but CLEARLY the best choice for Smash Bros would be my fav niche character HOWEVER you are clearly INCOMPETENT and
This was a good move by Iwata and company. The only thing they should have done differently was build it sooner.
also:
NoE, noticed a pattern yet?
All their buildings look depressing?
What's with the air raid sirens and the zombie shutters?
present an f-zero game? you're being way too optimistic here.
As someone who has lived in walking distance from the site/neighborhood that became Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, this stuff is always fascinating. I remember when it was just a giant ditch that no one was doing anything with, same with the Atlantic Mall right across from it.
red is the new building, blue is the old one. im sure employees will be happy they have bigger windows and no longer have to bunk bed their desks due to space.
Hot damn that's a lot of space.
I wonder if 640SPs could chill in the new space. /WUSTnostalgia
the androgyne
Member
RMS Gigantic
Member
It would have been cheaper to just buy one of the buildings that Sony sold off, but I think I prefer the running aesthetic of "You wouldn't expect Nintendo to be housed here!" Just like how the inside of the NCL HQ was described as looking more like a formal bank's lobby than something resembling a video game company's foyer.
Caayn
Member
Preparations for their next hardware unveiling. How else are you going to keep all those hordes of people outside?