This is from Miyamoto's interview in Edge Magazine:

"Splatoon and the three prototypes are the first games to emerge from Garage, a new Nintendo development programme set up last year in which developers break off into small teams and work on new ideas. 'There are increasing numbers of young staff at Nintendo's development studios these days,' Miyamoto says, 'and these young guys really want to express themselves.' Work is done during office hours, but he compares Garage to an after-school club, in spirit if not in schedule. 'Class time's over: they gather together and think about new projects completely apart from their everyday business assignments. When all of those projects have advanced to a certain stage, we gather together and exchange opinions on the outcome of each of them, and together we decide which ones should continue. We may have shown several software titles at E3 [that came from Garage], but there are many others in development too.'

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sounds good

nice to see that they are giving chance to young developer

Maybe a Nintendo direct soon?

There's apparently a Japanese 3DS Direct scheduled for tomorrow. It doesn't seem like there's one for EU/US yet though.

A conduit for new IPs is certainly a grand idea, but the question still remains of how to actually develop them.

As long as these games are polished and fun to play, I'm going to support the heck out of Garage.

And, if Splatoon is an indication, they really are.

Miyamoto says he has been training the next gen for awhile now for when he leaves. Guess we will get to see what they are capable of before they are thrusted into the limelight

Ummm.. This sounds good I guess!

That's a good idea.

With this programme they are able to give their own employees a break from their everyday routines and allow them to join other people at Nintendo with the same taste in games and let them express what they can't normally do.

If they can manage the frustration of some when their projects aren't allowed to continue, this could provide Nintendo with not only new IPs, but also help them find new team leaders from within the Co. or move people from one position to another to get a make a better use of their talents.