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New Nintendo Development House up and Running

By Jorge Ba-oh 23.06.2014 1

Nintendo's new development space is now up and running, opening last week in Kyoto, Japan.

Company president Satoru Iwata had admitted in the past that one of his concerns were that teams within Nintendo were perhaps too isolated from one another, and the new setup ensures improved collaboration.

Iwata said that Nintendo will "be interacting more deeply with hardware development, but we'll also be able to develop integrated software."

The building will be the primary base for Nintendo software/hardware production, crafted over what used to be a golf driving range site. Around 1,000 staff from the development teams at the head office and 100 people from the Kyoto Research Center have moved across.

What sorts of projects are you hoping to see from the new Nintendo setup?

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Flynnie 23.06.2014#1

I'm hoping that this will bring about the Nintendo 'Fusion concept' of one console. Something like what the Vita already does of continuing your PS4 experience on the handheld. I guess Nintendo could have done this with the gamepad if you could take the thing out of your house.

I am not sure how Pokemon games are developed (be it at GameFreak or whatever) but I think this franchise has the best chance of benefiting from a home console experience/handheld combination.

Hopefully this move could lead to a great collaboration between teams though, I just feel that Nintendo need more people to work for them. I don't understand why they don't take on more people to do Virtual Console emulation alone! Surely easy money for Nintendo...