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_crazy_man_ on 06 January 2014

Now it's perfect.



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Zekkyou on 06 January 2014
_crazy_man_ said:

Now it's perfect.

Is it backwards compatible with the previous building?



snyps on 06 January 2014
Hamister said:
Uniting their handheld and home console departments is something Nintendo should have done 15 years ago when it was becoming increasingly obvious that communication between various hardware gadgets was the future of technology. Nintendo did some early trials and errors with N64 and Game Boy Color at the end of the 1990s, continued with GameCube and Game Boy Advance in the early years of the last decade, but never really went all the way. It is now obvious why they failed. It's virtually impossible to coordinate two different development divisions. The only solution to that probem is to unite them into one division. GameCube could have had a a completely diffrent outcome if Nintendo had done that 15 years ago, when they started development of it and the Game Boy Advance.

The same goes with online support. Nintendo did some trials and errors early in the 1990s both with NES and SNES, continued experimenting a little with N64 and 64DD, and had all the skills and knowledge necessary to have the best online strategy from 2001 and onward with GameCube, Wii and Wii U. Instead they reversed and fell hopelessly behind their competitors.

This new HQ, and what it represents, is an important step for Nintendos future. 15 years too late, but better late than never. It'll be interesting to see if this will lead to any hardware and software miracles for the generation after 3DS and Wii U.


 

seriously, that's a good read



BeElite on 06 January 2014

Cool spend +200m on a grey box, and i got nothing to play on my U.



NobleTeam360 on 06 January 2014

That costed 200 million? get your money back Nintendo.



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travis on 06 January 2014
snyps said:

how dare they expand in a time when their president volentarily cuts his own salary in half. Iwata should resign immediately!




Yeah, In America the presidents rise their salaries while the companies are doing bad...



Dunban67 on 06 January 2014

Will they have internet access in the new building?

I think the building will be ready for occupancy Spring 2014 but Nintendo is not going to use it till an undisclosed date in 2015



jigokutamago on 06 January 2014

satellite view

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.972553,+135.754441&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&ll=34.972182,135.755578&spn=0.002972,0.006437&z=18&iwloc=A



Nem on 06 January 2014

Err... with that money they could have bought ATLUS themselves instead. What is Nintendo doing?! -.-



kirby007 on 06 January 2014
Nem said:
Err... with that money they could have bough ATLUS themselves instead. What is Nintendo doing?! -.-

Thats a good question, do they pay for it themselves or do they merely rent it, not sure how they do that sort of constructions in Japan



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