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Kyoto Development Center

Restructure Details

Central HQ Building / Kyoto Research Office (old buildings)
- "1,000 developers" from the Central Office HQ vacated 
- "100 developers" from the Kyoto Research Office vacated
- Intelligent Systems vacated from Kyoto Research Office into their new private building.
- No more development personnel in Central Office HQ?
- Only Mario Club Co., Ltd left in Kyoto Research Office?

Kyoto Development Center (new building)
- June 2014 official time of personnel transplant
- "1,000" Nintendo developers from Central HQ and "100" Nintendo developers from Kyoto Research Office merged into new Kyoto Development Center. 
- Hardware and all Software personnel now in one building. 
- 1,100~ / 1,500+ capacity filled thus far
- Nintendo hopes for better efficiency and expansion 
- SRD is on the "8th floor" of building (Nintendo technology affiliate)
- EAD absorbed several SPD development personnel.
- SPD production units still separate. May not be in this building. 
- SDD (Miiverse, System tools) and IRD (Hardware engineers) in building.
- SDD includes a Network Operations Department, with over 100 developers purely focused on network infrastructure and network based applications. (small chapter at Tokyo office as well)
- Katsuya Eguchi is department manager of all EAD groups in building. (New 90's Miyamoto)
- Slight delay of Kyoto based development of games until 2015. 

Miscellaneous
- Sakamoto and his personal development team re-emerging under new identity? 
- Graphic Art staff collectively throughout Nintendo about 40-50% female. 
- EAD Tokyo unaffected
- Iwata / Miyamoto establish "General Support Group" which is an alliance of small internal and external support studios filling out large EAD production units. (1-Up Studio, Monolith Kyoto, Indies Zero, Mox).
- Nintendo has become a large client of Digitalscape Co., Ltd. (temp agency) hiring large number of contract workers, and having a high retention rate of most of them after contract is over. (Mostly for EAD Tokyo)

source: nintendo.co,jp / kyoto-np.co.jp / srd.co.jp / intsys.co.jp



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- Sakamoto and his personal development team re-emerging under new identity? 

You know what to do, Mr. Sakamoto (;



I dont know what this means but its pretty awesome.



Tsubasa Ozora

Keiner kann ihn bremsen, keiner macht ihm was vor. Immer der richtige Schuss, immer zur richtigen Zeit. Superfussball, Fairer Fussball. Er ist unser Torschützenkönig und Held.

Interesting! New buildings are always nice although I kinda wish Nintendo buildings didn't look so plain but oh well, as long as its efficient I guess



                  

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Interesting! New buildings are always nice although I kinda wish Nintendo buildings didn't look so plain but oh well, as long as its efficient I guess


thats it efficient like a Borg Cube

                     



Tsubasa Ozora

Keiner kann ihn bremsen, keiner macht ihm was vor. Immer der richtige Schuss, immer zur richtigen Zeit. Superfussball, Fairer Fussball. Er ist unser Torschützenkönig und Held.

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I don't think this is the best time to be expanding, they should have done that last gen.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Fusioncode said:
I don't think this is the best time to be expanding, they should have done that last gen.


Better late than never I guess =P



Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Interesting! New buildings are always nice although I kinda wish Nintendo buildings didn't look so plain but oh well, as long as its efficient I guess


You'll be grateful if another earthquake his them.



Fusioncode said:
I don't think this is the best time to be expanding, they should have done that last gen.

They have been expanding for a while now. It's not something they just started doing.



Mystro-Sama said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Interesting! New buildings are always nice although I kinda wish Nintendo buildings didn't look so plain but oh well, as long as its efficient I guess


You'll be grateful if another earthquake his them.

Loll why is that?



                  

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