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YesWiiCan on 11 February 2009

The next Nintendo Console is going to be as strong or maybe stronger than Sony's and Microsoft's console.



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megaman79 on 11 February 2009

^ i agree, mode 7, N64, They usually pushed tech boundries



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Ganbare_Goemon on 12 February 2009
Viper1 said:
NintendoMan said:
Are you all sure they aren't simply building this to consolidate thier existing R+d which at present is split at two locations. That would seem the most sensible.

They only have 1 R&D location which is less than a mile away from the main NCL headquarters.

 

This new land is supposedly even closer and while you are correct that they will likely move their current R&D into the new building, the plot of land purchased is over twice as large as the land the existing building sits on.  Hell, it's twice as large as the plot of land NCL headquarters sits on.  400,000 sq feet is quite a large footprint.  It looks larger than your average Kyoto city block.  The actual building footprint will probably be 85% of the total land plot based on the average building in that are aof Kyoto giving it a base footprint of 340,000.  Multiply that per floor and you have a very large building.  At 3 floors you have the size of a large mall.

 

Actually, it will be "only" 40.000 square meter.

 



  Awesome trailer for the new Ganbare Goemon game, to be released in March, 2009 for... Well, it's a Pachinko machine with a display. Oh, God.

 *NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WII*:  Now it's gonna happen!!! Thank you so much Nintendo.

Viper1 on 12 February 2009
Ganbare_Goemon said:
Viper1 said:
NintendoMan said:
Are you all sure they aren't simply building this to consolidate thier existing R+d which at present is split at two locations. That would seem the most sensible.

They only have 1 R&D location which is less than a mile away from the main NCL headquarters.

 

This new land is supposedly even closer and while you are correct that they will likely move their current R&D into the new building, the plot of land purchased is over twice as large as the land the existing building sits on.  Hell, it's twice as large as the plot of land NCL headquarters sits on.  400,000 sq feet is quite a large footprint.  It looks larger than your average Kyoto city block.  The actual building footprint will probably be 85% of the total land plot based on the average building in that are aof Kyoto giving it a base footprint of 340,000.  Multiply that per floor and you have a very large building.  At 3 floors you have the size of a large mall.

 

Actually, it will be "only" 40.000 square meter.

40,000 square meters is the size of the land plot.  40,000 square meters is 430,000 square feet.

 



The rEVOLution is not being televised

Ganbare_Goemon on 12 February 2009
Viper1 said:
Ganbare_Goemon said:
Viper1 said:
NintendoMan said:
Are you all sure they aren't simply building this to consolidate thier existing R+d which at present is split at two locations. That would seem the most sensible.

They only have 1 R&D location which is less than a mile away from the main NCL headquarters.

 

This new land is supposedly even closer and while you are correct that they will likely move their current R&D into the new building, the plot of land purchased is over twice as large as the land the existing building sits on.  Hell, it's twice as large as the plot of land NCL headquarters sits on.  400,000 sq feet is quite a large footprint.  It looks larger than your average Kyoto city block.  The actual building footprint will probably be 85% of the total land plot based on the average building in that are aof Kyoto giving it a base footprint of 340,000.  Multiply that per floor and you have a very large building.  At 3 floors you have the size of a large mall.

 

Actually, it will be "only" 40.000 square meter.

40,000 square meters is the size of the land plot.  40,000 square meters is 430,000 square feet.

 

 

You're right. I didn't pay attention. Here in my country it's not usual to measure surfaces using square feet, that's where my mistake comes from.



  Awesome trailer for the new Ganbare Goemon game, to be released in March, 2009 for... Well, it's a Pachinko machine with a display. Oh, God.

 *NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WII*:  Now it's gonna happen!!! Thank you so much Nintendo.

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Viper1 on 12 February 2009

We Americans are goofy that way. We like our customary system for some reason over the easier to use SI metric system.



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rubido on 12 February 2009

Is this where they are going to start cloning Miyamoto?