Bofferbrauer said:
I'm pretty sure Nintendo hires (or already hired) dedicated personnel to produce those smartphone games. Besides, I could swear I've read several times across the last 2 years that Nintendo was hiring additional programmers and the like, so they probably even have more personnel to make games than they had even just year ago. |
Wikipedia shows the numbers up by about a 150 (when compared with last year) to 5213. Not more than 3-4 years ago the number was in the mid 4000s. I think people are naive is they assume Nintendo hasn't planned for this.
Furthermore I think people are overestimating the amount of resourcing that will be required for Nintendo to make mobile games. Nintendo has a 1001 mini-game and touch screen style games and mini-game proformas that they used for the DS, 3DS, Mario Party etc. titles, which if reskinned, updated and given some TLC would make great mobile games. This is something they could give to their new recruits, under the supervision of a couple of more senior developers, as a sort of training ground before they graduate to development of handheld, console or NX titles.
