Azelover said:
One thing I don't see stressed enough is how they're gonna manage resources now with two powerful systems. I couldn't even imagine if they had a next gen system to take care of.
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I can tell you how they will handel it use the piles of cash they have to hire more developers and commision third parties to develop games. Oh wait they are doing that....
Pilotwings Resort was handled by Monster games a third party
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is handled by Grezzo a third party
Steel Diver was done by Vitie Inc a third party
Kid Icarus: Uprising is being developed by Project Sora founded by Nintendo in 2009
most of the big Wii games of late have been developed by third parties The Last Story, Monster Hunter Tri etc and of the few confirmed upcoming Wii games I can think of only Skyward Sword is being developed by Nintendo.
BTW this is the list of Nintendo Development studios
First-party studios
EAD Comprehensive Group – Steel Diver, Star Fox 64 3D, Super Mario 64 DS,
EAD Group 1 – Mario Kart series, Nintendogs series, Luigi's Mansion,[35]
EAD Group 2 – Animal Crossing series, Wii-branded games, Pilotwings Resort
EAD Group 3 – The Legend of Zelda series
EAD Group 4 – Pikmin series, New Super Mario Bros. series, Big Brain Academy,
EAD Group 5 – Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus
EAD Tokyo – Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy series
Nintendo SPD – WarioWare series, Friend Collection, Metroid: Other M with Team Ninja[36]
Nintendo NSD – Personal Trainer: Walking,
Nintendo STC – Mario vs Donkey Kong, 1080° Avalanche, Crosswords DS
Nintendo SDD – Brain Age, Brain Age 2, Brain Age Express, Jam with the Band
Monolith Soft – Disaster: Day of Crisis, Xenoblade
Retro Studios – Metroid Prime series, Donkey Kong Country Returns
Brownie Brown – A Kappa's Trail, Magical Starsign series
Intelligent Systems – Fire Emblem series, Advance Wars series
Project Sora – Kid Icarus Uprising
Nd Cube – F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Wii Party
HAL Laboratory – Super Smash Bros series, Kirby series, Picross 3D
Second-party studios
Since the 1980s, Nintendo has built up a large group of second-party partners, through publishing agreements or collaboration.
AlphaDream – Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Ambrella – Pokémon Dash, Pokémon Rumble[40]
Creatures Inc. – EarthBound (Mother) series, Pokémon
Camelot Software Planning – Golden Sun series
Genius Sonority – Pokémon Colosseum, Pokémon Battle Revolution
Good-Feel – Kirby's Epic Yarn with HAL Laboratory,
Monster Games – Excitebike series [41]
Next Level Games – Punch Out!!
Noise – Custom Robo series
Paon – Glory of Heracles series, Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, DK: King of Swing
Skip Ltd. – Chibi-Robo! series, Art Style series
n-Space - Geist
Arika - Endless Ocean, Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep
Treasure - Sin & Punishment, Sin & Punishment 2
Kuju Entertainment – Battalion Wars, Battalion Wars 2
Game Freak - Pokémon (video game series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Software_development_studios
Yea I think they have enough developers to support all their platforms, especially with their habit of outsourcing games to third parties...