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Nintendo Recruiting Additional Programmers for Smart Phone Devices
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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.
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.
Calm Mind
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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.
Shikamaru Ninja
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Nintendo has a different culture because it has traditional in-house developers in their main Kyoto and Tokyo facilities.It makes their external first-party developers seem separate often because of that distinction. Sony doesn't have that same culture. They don't have in-house developers from the 70s and 80s that carry around development ethos and mold new employees with it. They can go around and buy studios and label them sony without any regards.
AtomicShroom
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Good. They can barely sustain their dedicated consoles with a decent flow of software. If they're going to ramp up mobile development, they had better hire new people for that!
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).
Would actually make sense if the rumors about Android OS and a portable device are true. Just because they say they are looking for Mobile Developers doesn't mean they are going to ditch the handheld (which is a mobile device technically) I just think Nintendo is attempting to increase revenue with light Nintendo IP's and gain exposure for Nintendo IP's on Mobile devices and than release full fledged titles on their own devices.
Imagine kids getting a taste of Pokemon on mom's iPhones than begging her for the NX when a full Pokemon is released. Basically the mobiles are a gateway drug to the NX device for Nintendo IMHO.
PS 1st post don't ban me yet!!!
Typical Nintendo, right?
At least they're treating mobile just like one of their own platforms. A huge delay in content after launch is standard operating procedure.
I would have said Nintendo should make there own smartphone but unfortunately they are shit at software OS. If Nintendo had a phone which had all the popular apps we have on smartphones. Decent camera and battery life with slide out buttons. I would but their phone in an instant.
Dreamwriter
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They advertised for mobile developers in the US too a few months back
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).
When you don't buy any studios it makes it harder to shut down studios.
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.
redmetal86
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Come on Mario Teaches Texting.
You sure about this one?
Calm Mind
Member
I was under the impression that Nintendo needed less niche products and more profitable mainstream success.
..... I am confused lol. I mean Nintendo history with talent and bleeding talent should already tells u why they dont do those thing anymore.
Shikamaru Ninja
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So i guess they will probably end up hiring even more mobile programmers for their Kyoto and Tokyo R&D.
Cause of the pokeymanz?
Shikamaru Ninja
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Nintendogs Go. Find stray animals on the street.
Selective reading, confirmation bias and wishful thinking.
NOLA_Gaffer
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How long until a silly opinion piece goes up talking about Pokemon Go's success means Nintendo is doubling down on mobile gaming?
Ahhhahahaha. Wow.
Ahhhahahaha. Wow.
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I prefer the name "Nintendogs Get!!".
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