Nintendo to open new R&D centre in Kyoto

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tarheel91 said:

Viper1 said:

True they have called their internal development teams as "R&D" in the past but they are now known as EAD.  This building is for actual Research and Development.  Their current R&D facility houses actual R&D, the Super Mario Club and Intelligent Systems.  Their main office houses their main EAD development teams.

Nintendo EAD is a subgroup of Nintendo R&D.

The Nintendo Kyoto Research Center is the building being replaced.  That building is home to actual research and development, the Super Mario Club and Intelligent Systems development studio.

The main office houses the Nintendo Entertainment and Analysis Division.   In 2004, Nintendo changed the name of the old R&D game development team structure from being called Nintendo Research and Development 1 and Nintendo Research and Development 2 into the entity I noted above called EAD.

EAD is not a subgroup of anything R&D...either actual research and development or a game developement group division name.  EAD IS the name of the game development group now.