What's Nintendo working on? Even more Wii and 3DS games.

[trestres]

jarrod said:

Just a quick aside tres, your OP seems to be going off Wikipedia, but that's not entirely correct afaik. SPD actually has 3 R&D groups now for example (with SPD1/2 doing games, SPD3 overseeing outsourced projects). I also heard conflicting things about EAD5, whether they're an actual separate division or part of EAD1.

Also, EAD3 can't really be credited with *every* Zelda, but just from Majora's Mask on moreso. Cooking Guide was a different group NSD) with indieszero, not EAD1. EAD1 can be credited with Luigi's Mansion though, EAD2 with every Animal Crossing (even the N64 one). EAD4 can't be credited with the Pikmin games though (they were R&D2 back then, not even part of EAD), but they handled the NPC rereleases. You can probably credit Mario Sunshine to EAD Tokyo too, as basically the entire core team went there, though that's iffier given EAD Tokyo technically didn't exist then. Still, if we go on technicalities, the Mario Advance games were all by R&D2, and EAD3 only made Zeldas from Four Swords Adventures and on. :/

As far as SPD, SPD2 can be credited with the Game & Watch DS Collections and DSiWare releases.  I *think* they may also be behind the various emulation proejcts like Famicom Mini on GBA and Virtual Console on Wii.  NST did the emu for N64 Zeldas on GameCube though. 

And finally, there's two groups missing entirely...

Nintendo Network Services Development (NSD): Formerly Nintendo Special Planning & Development (SPD) they made mostly BSX games, eReader games, Pokemon mini games... recent stuff includes co-development of Personal Trainer Walking (with Jupiter), Cooking Guide (with indieszero) and Slide Adventure Magkid (with Agenda). Probably working on America's Test Kitchen (ie: Cooking Guide 2).

Nintendo Software Design & Development (SDD): Iwata's "secret weapon" team. They made Brain-Age, Band Bros, English Training and the various DS Dictionaries. Really tiny team from what I understand.  They're also in charge of a lot of "non-game" software for DSi and Wii channels I think.

http://kyoto-report.blogspot.com/2008/07/ead-software-group-no_9092.html

I think EAD 5 is a group on its own. It could be dissolved by now, but Tadashi Sugiyama was the manager. They nade Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus.

Made some changes to the OP and will add those teams you named. About SPD, I don't know, Wikipedia seeems to change so much. If only there was a reliable source.