Nintendo Building New R&D Center In Japan

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Viper1 said:

NintendoMan said:
Are you all sure they aren't simply building this to consolidate thier existing R+d which at present is split at two locations. That would seem the most sensible.

They only have 1 R&D location which is less than a mile away from the main NCL headquarters.

 

This new land is supposedly even closer and while you are correct that they will likely move their current R&D into the new building, the plot of land purchased is over twice as large as the land the existing building sits on.  Hell, it's twice as large as the plot of land NCL headquarters sits on.  400,000 sq feet is quite a large footprint.  It looks larger than your average Kyoto city block.  The actual building footprint will probably be 85% of the total land plot based on the average building in that are aof Kyoto giving it a base footprint of 340,000.  Multiply that per floor and you have a very large building.  At 3 floors you have the size of a large mall.

 

Actually, it will be "only" 40.000 square meter.