The truth about Nintendo

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Viper1 said:

trixiemafia86 said:
With the success of the Wii, N had the resourses to create more ips and better hardware yet they came with wii u which only has a few exclusives with limited 3rd party games after over a year on the market.
remember, they abandoned the wii in its final years, yet they still weren't ready with games for wii u.

all that profit with nothing much invested. you got some good points, i give u that.

They just built a massive new R&D facility.  I think they pulled support for Wii and had little new for Wii U because they were in transition from the 2 buildings.  They couldn't expand their development teams in the old building and Wii U certainly requires more development resources than did Wii.  Their Wii U output was limited simply due to logistics and manpower allocations.

Ever notice how far more external studios are handling Nintendo 1st party development?  They've had to outsource a lot.

My brother also works on R&D and recently his team has moved into new facilities. And guess what: his productivity hasn't lowered one bit. He doesn't work in construction so he didn't have to spend his time building the new facilities. He worked on the old facilities until he got moved to the new ones. I guess this is common sense. Moving into new buildings is no excuse to lower productivity.

Wii U, a 7th gen tech system, requires more development resources than Wii? You need to elaborate on that. I bet some people here in the forum have difficulties to accept that. Anyway, now imagine what PS4/XOne demand. Now think about the fact that Nintendo has been 1 generation behind for 8 years now. Now it's easy to understand how they have accumulated such huge profits.