Nintendo Developing New Game Genres to Revitalise 3DS

[Joelcool7]

Mr Khan said:

Joelcool7 said:

 

 

This news is very bad, Nintendo doesn't have the resources to both expand their market and secure their existing one. They can't provide all of the high quality first party software fans want while at the same time giving new consumers the software they would like. Nintendo is a long ways off from being able to do this.

If Nintendo is to release all of their prominent IP's as well as provide consumers with the new software those new consumers want. Nintendo is going to have to expand and out source. But expansion costs money and Nintendo is losing money I doubt they could convince managment and share holders to expand.

They are building a new R&D center in Kyoto. A big one, though whether that will entail more game development capacity or just more R&D (which at the end of the day is just higher operating expenses in the short term) remains to be seen

Yah I was aware of that, however I am sceptical as to whether that facility will be used to develop games. Nintendo changed most of its game R&D facilities name to EAD or other studio names rather then using R&D in the majority of them.  Of course five of the six EAD divisions are in Kyoto. So this new R&D facility could be an addition to EAD which would be amazing.

This new R&D facility is supposedly going to house 1,500 employees while the current facility houses only 500. Now the question is are these 1,000 employees going to be new to the company? New assets or will Nintendo simply be moving a ton of their operations to this new facility?

If the facilities primary goal is the creation of software then this would be great. A little late but very good none the less, Nintendo could produce almost 2/3rds more games from its EAD division assuming the majority of the facility was to work on software.