>Expansion as soon as 2028
>Plans to counter rising costs for games with shorter development cycles
It's coming together

They’re gonna charge you $60 for shorter games and you cultist cucks will buy them.

>>714916963 (OP)
To believe a single good thing will come of this is to have naivety of a mindless consoomer, and I think I know which category you fall into

>>714917315
>$60
try $80

>>714917386
And they'll pay it with a sѹ gape on their face.

>>714918364
https://x.com/Mlickles/status/1942418810386145508

Case in point. Audible gasping and groaning yet still cant stop from clicking the preorder button.

i visited that place in 2014

>>714916963 (OP)
Nintendo expanding is fine but I would like to see Nintendo starting new studios in other parts of the world. Retro Games and Monolith games have a different flavor to them then the EPD games.

>>714920331
It's something they rarely do because they largely prefer independent second party partners that they can co-own a series with.
They concentrated more domestically around the Game Cube era with a few exceptions two of which they'd later outright buy into first party studios.
They only owned Monolith Soft majority-wise and only recently got the whole thing.
Shiver was an odd purchase but people strongly believe it'll mostly be for porting.

>>714917337
>>714917315
The prices will be ass but I just want to see quirky, smaller-scaled, inventive games be made from this

>>714920331
No, globalizing is bad, just outsource that shit. Keep the cancerous PlayStation/Xbox mindset out.

>>714916963 (OP)
>>714918634
Why does it look so soulless? Even a semiconductor fab that's a literal clean room has more style.

>>714921123
>No, globalizing is bad, just outsource that shit.

Outsourcing is globalization numb-nuts. By your logic Nintendo should never sell their games and consoles outside of Japan.

>>714920331
They helped fund Retro Studios' from the ground-up to be a second party studio and while Metroid Prime was a masterpiece, Retro's birth was rough and they had to outright buy them because the morale was terrible.
I doubt Nintendo would be looking to create a new foreign studio from the ground-up if they remember that.

>>714921237
Clean Japanese buildings. The inside is whole different story but Japan doesn't really like flashy buildings from the outside. There are exceptions but they are rare. Sony in Tokyo and Kojimbles place look similar. In fact, the whole commercial district of Tokyo has virtually no commercial signs. At most they'll have a muted sign on ground level and a simple brand name on top of the building.
It might look like shit on it's own but there's beauty in it's simplicity and cohesion with buildings around it. They also love to build little parks and shit between the buildings (they also leave a lot of space inbetween buildings) so it feels really spatious and open despite being surrounded by gigabuildings. It's a very pleasant environment desu. New York or similar american hellholes are quite the opposite and feel oppressive.

>>714921565
While that may be true, it is also true that Nintendo was in a bidding war to get Rare before Microsoft ultimately won. Nintendo tries to hold onto talent when it's recognized and so it's reasonable to assume that, while rare, Nintendo wouldn't be apposed to the idea of expanding beyond Japan in order to secure people budding talent from across the world. Building and expanding studios to Nintendo seems more safe and less costly in the long run so I think it's only a matter of time.

>>714922247
>commercial district
Meant financial district. The commercial districts are obviously plastered with neon and led signage. Which also has it's charm but it's very soothing outside those areas. You are not getting blasted by commercial signage outside of those general areas.

>>714920331
Talent is increasingly harder to come by and wages outside of Japan are just too expensive. Not to mention regulatory bodies and unions up the cost as well, which is why they don't have any game studios in Europe. They have "Nintendo European Research & Development" as their only European owned "studio" but that subsidiary doesn't make games. Not just talent, but work ethic and culture might be too much of a hassle. Retro was literally made to be a part of Nintendo and they still need to be tardwrangled 20 years later.

>>714923765
>Retro was literally made to be a part of Nintendo
They were still a second party studio that they technically didn't fully own until 2002

I would rather work in a big commie block like this than in an open plan office

>>714922352
>Building and expanding studios to Nintendo seems more safe and less costly in the long run so I think it's only a matter of time.
My concern is that you end up getting something like Ubisoft where you have all these teams from across the globe that just blend together or lack a personality

>>714924683
You think having individual studios would make them all blend together but having each dev team under the same building won't? Ubisoftmade their studios that way when they got them all to copy-paste the same open world format.

>>714920331
No fuck off I want them to stay right where they are fuck the rest of the world.

>Expansion
>Plans to counter rising costs
Are they retarded?

>>714925178
>smaller games
>shorter games
>gameplay-focused games
>staying in AA games territory
>hiring more native Japanese
How's this retarded?

>>714925178
It'll be cheaper in the long run (decades) to have another building full of employees to make and support their games. Since they'll all be paid a Jap salary, it'll be even cheaper because they save 50% on every employee compared to overseas western ones and they're just as talented, if not better. Also, being Nintendo employees guarantees they'll make Nintendo games, unlike having to rely on VERY unreliable third-party partners to maybe push some shitty late port to Nintendo systems.

>>714921237
It's just an office building, you go inside, have meetings, stare at screens, drink coffee and go home, it doesn't need to be soulful.

Now picrel is pure soul, I always wondered if it was inspired by a nearby park or golf course, I'm leaning towards probably not because the area surrounding Nintendo's HQ looks pretty drab.

>>714921237
what is it supposed to look like? the building was probably already there when nintendo bought it.

>>714922352
They have people from other EPD departments to help produce and even assist with games handled by developers outside of EPD ranging from second party partners to overseas first party developers in the West like with Retro and NST
Depending on how the expansion goes, they might branch off more into that

>>714926931
Plus there's less chances of infiltration of woke ideologs.

>>714920331
Doing too much of that gets you into the situation Ubisoft is in where they have dozens of redundant studios they made everywhere for tax breaks.

>>714927146
>inspired by a nearby park or golf course
Isn't there a golf course right next door?

>>714916963 (OP)
expand you say?

>>714922352
>Nintendo was in a bidding war to get Rare before Microsoft ultimately won
No they weren't. They had 49% share in Rare and decided to sell because their talent was hemorrhaging and they had nothing ready for the Gamecube

>>714930363
Wrong, there was a threeway bidding war between Nintendo, Activision, and Microsoft. That's a fact, there are records. That shows Nintendo was trying to keep Rare but obviously once Microsoft got involved it was over.

https://www.engadget.com/2010-10-27-activision-and-nintendo-were-involved-in-rare-bidding-war.html

>>714930649
goddamnit /v/ all your misinformation.

>so called people will pay $80 for this

>>714916963 (OP)
They are going to remake classics, because the creativity and inovation well has dried up.

>>714921049
>smaller scale games
>higher price
yeah, you're a retard.

>>714930736
I will, cause I have a job.

>>714930736
This is $70, and it looks fun, maybe Microsoft, Sony, and non-Japanese AAA companies should learn a thing or two on how to make an actual video game.

>>714933057
If they can get away with it they will. They already pushed it with MKW and they will keep going

>>714917315
Who cares. If you're not willing to pay for what they give you, Nintendo should send goons down to your house and fucking kill you.

>>714917315
And what's wrong with that? Wasn't a problem in gaming before the 7th generation shitted it up, why would it be a problem now?

>>714917315
You'll survive

>>714930736
You'll survive

>>714916963 (OP)
They've been making practically nothing but garbage and flagrant rehashes for the past half decade and you people think them cutting dev time is going to help. They'll still charge you full price too.

>>714935161
It looks like shit in every way.