by Go Nintendo wrote:- located near Minami-Ku, Kyoto
- opened on Wednesday
- new building houses hardware and software devs
- 40,000 square meter area of space
- 300 meters north of the new head office building quality of life
- seven stories high
- one floor basement
- 50,000 square meters in total
- cost was about 19 billion yen
- houses roughly 1,000 employees from the development department and about 100 people from a software development center in Higashiyama District called “Kyoto Research Center”
- Iwata says: “We’ll be interacting more deeply with hardware development, but we’ll also be able to develop integrated software.”
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This sounds like it was a move for the hardware team and the Quality of Life team but, I can also see Nintendo making some new development teams to make more games.
