Emily Rogers made a new blog post about the NX's software output

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spemanig said:

TheLastStarFighter said:
If it's a combined library, 25 games or so in one year is very doable. 2 first party titles a month would be impressive. It's worth noting too, that Nintendo dramatically increased the size of their headquarters and staff beginning about 3 years ago. The fruits of that labour would only be beginning to be seen now.

Link?

It's actually not true. Nintendo's number of employees has remained pretty constant and has actually declined the past few years. Their massive employee expansion completed by 2012 so they would have the manpower to develop for the HD era.

What has changed recently is that Nintendo has increasingly worked with a whole bunch of close Nintendo allies to help finish their games (like Bandai Namco and Koei Tecmo).

When you combine that along with merging console + handheld development, you can get acclerated output.

 

Number of Nintendo employees (consolidated, aka. everyone around the world):

March 31st, 2002: 3,073 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2003/030522e.pdf

March 31st, 2003: 2,977 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2003/030522e.pdf

March 31st, 2004: 2,985 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2004/040527e.pdf

March 31st, 2005: 3,013 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2005/050526e.pdf

March 31st, 2006: 3,150 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2006/060525e.pdf

March 31st, 2007: 3,373 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2007/070426e.pdf

March 31st, 2008: 3,768 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080424e.pdf

March 31st, 2009: 4,130 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2009/090507e.pdf

March 31st, 2010: 4,425 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2010/100506e.pdf

March 31st, 2011: 4,712 employees, Source:https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425e.pdf

March 31st, 2012: 4,928 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2012/120426e.pdf

March 31st, 2013: 5,080 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2013/130424e.pdf

March 31, 2014: 5,213 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140507e.pdf

March 31, 2015: 5,120 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150507e.pdf

September 31st, 2015: 5,116 employees, Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/en/outline/