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Nintendo Expands in Hometown of Kyoto

14.02.2009

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Despite various companies around the world either completely folding, being bought out or making many employees redundant, Nintendo is actually expanding, and who can really be that surprised when the company can sell 777,000 units of Wii Fit in the usually slow month of January in the US?

The expansion is coming in the form of 40,000 square metres of land that has recently been purchased in Nintendo's hometown of Kyoto, Japan. The land cost around the £98 million / US$141 million mark and will eventually be home to a new Research and Development centre that will focus on new video game software, as well as new hardware ideas. According to Japanese news source Nikkei, Nintendo is apparently attempting to improve efficiency by having the majority of its R&D in the one location.

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Wolvesgod 14.02.2009#1

Wow, thats great. Honestly we might even see greater games from Nintendo if they expand more.

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wolfmanz51 14.02.2009#2

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Satoshi 14.02.2009#3

omg Japanese land is expensive...
Even in the middle of London it would be about £20-25 million...

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jesusraz 14.02.2009#4

Land space is really tight in Japan, isn't it? Would explain it.

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Satoshi 14.02.2009#5

Yeah hence most buildings are like 50 storey (+ a few levels underground) Smilie

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Keven 14.02.2009#6

Maybe they'll start selling cards again. Eh, eh? Smilie

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Andrezao 15.02.2009#7

Awesome, this could guarantee more games for us with Nintendo's quality. I still think Nintendo should buy some more companies. A decent western company to work on DKC series... We miss you RARE... But then again, most of the original team is either with Nintendo (like the sound director) or joined some other companies.
Ah the good old days...