Nintendo Expands Research and Development

[Michael Bluth]

April 16, 2003 - In what has to be Nintendo's most vague press release to date, the company today announced that it has expanded its internal development sources by "establishing a new research and development facility in Tokyo." The new branch will develop "unique games for Nintendo hardware platforms, adding to the depth and breadth of Nintendo's first-party game library."

No further bits were announced. But Nintendo did at least state that details of the facility, including when it would officially open, would be announced "in the coming months."

Let the speculation begin.




http://cube.ign.com/articles/393/393920p1.html

[nigelfloe]

^dude u post too much random bs that no one cares about

[Colin™]

I care about it.

Nigle"floe", your post was bs.

[Michael Bluth]

Originally posted by nigelfloe
^dude u post too much random bs that no one cares about

Thank you for proving that you have absolutely no idea what R&D is.

[Hylian-Advocate]

I think it's interesting. This could mean that we could see more increadible first party games. That's enough to get my attention.

[Viper]

Heres hoping for new franchises on the level of Mario and LOZ.

[Nigel]

Originally posted by Colin
I care about it.

Nigle"floe", your post was bs.

Well, putting aside the fact that you spelled "Nigel" wrong, I hope that wasn't a suggestion that he and I are one in the same. If not, then sorry, I'm tired and paranoid (like always).

[Colin™]

I make one stupid typo in like forever and I get all jumped on.

About the "", I hadn't really thought about it, but now that you've brought it up, yeah sure, you're the same people.

[motz]

Ice Cream

[JackieChanIsGOD]

Heh... here's some speculation for ya...
It MUST house an online testing facility.... I MUST.
Either that, or they're building missiles for when they conduct their hostile takeover of microsoft. Washington state is just a hop skip and jump away from Tokyo...
OR, they will constantly have 30 people in a room, sitting at a table, with machine guns mounted on the wall (for the companys saftey of course) to come up with new and exciting plans to get thrid parties more involved with the GC.

Yeah... those HAVE to be true...


All of them.

[Michael Bluth]

Isn't NoA located like 10 minutes away from Microsoft's HQ?

[JackieChanIsGOD]

Yeah but transporting massive missiles to the US isn't easy... plus building them there would cause some suspition as well... launching them from Toyko should work... especially with the new 'stealth' missiles they're researching and developing at the facility...

DUH

:D

[Prince]

Originally posted by Phantagram
Isn't NoA located like 10 minutes away from Microsoft's HQ?

I heard they were pretty close (Think it was in that interview with Seamus blackly). Closer then 10 mins... I think they're pretty much right down the street. :eek:

anyone remember this? (http://www.planetgamecube.com/specials.cfm?action=profile&id=362) (look at the picture) they must of been pretty close to each other if they did that :p

[JackieChanIsGOD]

Haha, that guy looks retarded.

[HolyPaladin]

I thought he looked like he just took a big, healthy crap in his pants and liked it but at the same time felt guilty about it and opted for poorly-conceiled secrecy.

[{R}Ev0lution]

Nintendo should start churning out New franchises i think everyone here myself included now knows that the Big blocbuster Franchises Nintendo owns the ones that were once fires are now dying embers.

[coolwiteverybody]

It seems that Nintendo is starting to make more of an effort.

[Hylian-Advocate]

^ Which is a good thing, becuase they need to step things up a bit.... You know, draw the attention of those PS2 and X-Box fans.

[Michael Bluth]

Originally posted by Hylian-Advocate
^ Which is a good thing, becuase they need to step things up a bit.... You know, draw the attention of those PS2 and X-Box fans.

Yes, but at the same time Sony is trying to draw GameCube and XBox fans, while Microsoft is trying to draw GameCube and PS2 fans......

[{R}Ev0lution]

And which PC is drawing evryone here in. Go PC...If you cant tell i like PC's

[sagara0510]

^we can tell....its ok. we all know the PC is the king of FPS, RTS, RPG etc...

[{R}Ev0lution]

It's the King of everything your using one right now instead of your precious Gamecube muhahahahah.

[sagara0510]

^umm....duhhh

[{R}Ev0lution]

Hi i live in canberra.

[sagara0510]

umm...thats nice

[{R}Ev0lution]

Just call me random

[Nights]

zelda did will... Marioparty did uber well, best selling gamecube game in japan.

What were they mario sunshine, that bored me to death, however still sold well. Metroid did welll! All of these titles were there old franchises, and they sold like hot CAKES!!!

It's the new ones that suck...

Luigis mantion! and aaa....

My question is what exactly is nintendo making?

Marioparty 4 is hudson
Metroid is Retro studios
Eternal Darkness is silicon knights
Super Smash Bros Hal
Waver Racer NST
And the list goes on

only nintendo games I can think of are
Zelda (only great nintendo game)
Super Mario Sunshine (major disapointment, sales lagged)
Luigis mantion (SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED)
Animal Crossing (n64 port)
Pikimi (Sales Sucked)

[sagara0510]

hi random how's it goin?

[{R}Ev0lution]

Great, but i think Jo CO is a bigger random than me wtf does that have to do with the topic??

[Kliq]

It's simple, this means better quality first party titles .. and more of them.

[{R}Ev0lution]

Yeah but whats that go to do with Nintendo opening a new devlopment house??

[Viper]

Hopefully another AAA franchise. The more dev teams they have, the more new franchises that can be released as well as sequals to older franchises. Updating older franchises is why we haven't seen too many new franchises lately.

[{R}Ev0lution]

The main Nintendo devolopment house led by Miyamoto is said too have over 1 million people (dont know if it's true)they should be able to produce new blockbuster franchises while still making sequals to their old games and if they cant i say shame shame shame Nintendo.

[Viper]

^WTF. Someone lied to you. That would make them the largest employer on the planet. I would be very surprised if Miyamotos' team had more than 200 people.

[{R}Ev0lution]

Shush your mouth Whiteshadow hmmmm that sounds heaps cool...well we succeded in doing it again viper.