Nintendo Consolidating Handheld and Console Game Development

Further proof, if any was needed, that Nintendo gets handhelds, and that instead of treating them as second class citizens, doomed to get outsourced spin offs of main franchises like some other company I could name, Nintendo views its handheld business to be as important as its console business.

Nintendo will be unifying its previously separated handheld and console development structure under this unified development headquarters. This is Nintendo's first large-scale dev. structural change in 9 years. The unification is being done to promote sharing of know-how, basic skills, and to optimize development. Nintendo also aims to increase linkage between handheld and home consoles, along with raising their (as in their consoles and handhelds') affinity with the internet. Nintendo hopes this structural change will lead to the development of revolutionary new hardware.

In addition to consolidated game development, and console/handheld linking that the report suggests directly, we could also be looking at 3DS exclusive features being compatible with the Wii U (like the pedometer and StreetPass), and Wii U exclusive features being extended to the 3DS (like Miiverse), leading to a more unified and seamless, integrated experience.

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Further proof, if any was needed, that Nintendo gets handhelds, and that instead of treating them as second class citizens, doomed to get outsourced spin offs of main franchises like some other company I could name, Nintendo views its handheld business to be as important as its console business.

Nintendo will be unifying its previously separated handheld and console development structure under this unified development headquarters. This is Nintendo's first large-scale dev. structural change in 9 years. The unification is being done to promote sharing of know-how, basic skills, and to optimize development. Nintendo also aims to increase linkage between handheld and home consoles, along with raising their (as in their consoles and handhelds') affinity with the internet. Nintendo hopes this structural change will lead to the development of revolutionary new hardware.

In addition to consolidated game development, and console/handheld linking that the report suggests directly, we could also be looking at 3DS exclusive features being compatible with the Wii U (like the pedometer and StreetPass), and Wii U exclusive features being extended to the 3DS (like Miiverse), leading to a more unified and seamless, integrated experience.

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charizard1605

i lol'd

They definitely treat their handheld business better...much better than their console one.

They definitely treat their handheld business better...much better than their console one.

campzor

Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesCapitan_Kid

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They definitely treat their handheld business better...much better than their console one.

charizard1605

Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesCapitan_Kid

Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesCapitan_Kid

This is exactly what I was thinking. I'm pretty disappointed with my Wii U so far.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] But then we'd get terrible Zelda games and no true 3D Marios, so f*ck that.charizard1605

They weren't bad games in the least, they just weren't OoT.

[QUOTE="campzor"]

They definitely treat their handheld business better...much better than their console one.

charizard1605

Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesCapitan_Kid

I feel like they(Sony too) need to integrate the andriod/app store games as well. Mobile games sales are insane, if you look at some of the sales figures. Led_poison

I feel like they(Sony too) need to integrate the andriod/app store games as well. Mobile games sales are insane, if you look at some of the sales figures. Led_poison

Further proof, if any was needed, that Nintendo gets handhelds, and that instead of treating them as second class citizens, doomed to get outsourced spin offs of main franchises like some other company I could name, Nintendo views its handheld business to be as important as its console business.

charizard1605

Of course they get handhelds, the games are cheap to make, you can rehash the same IPs without people taking too much notice, no effort to bring japanese 3rd parties on board, and you can overprice the games and no one would take notice either.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="campzor"] [QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesnintendoboy16

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]

Further proof, if any was needed, that Nintendo gets handhelds, and that instead of treating them as second class citizens, doomed to get outsourced spin offs of main franchises like some other company I could name, Nintendo views its handheld business to be as important as its console business.

GD1551

Of course they get handhelds, the games are cheap to make, you can rehash the same IPs without people taking too much notice, no effort to bring japanese 3rd parties on board, and you can overprice the games and no one would take notice either.

Nintendo's 25 year old IPs feel more fresh and innovate more than Sony new IPs.

Good riddance to them and Vita

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[QUOTE="charizard1605"]

Further proof, if any was needed, that Nintendo gets handhelds, and that instead of treating them as second class citizens, doomed to get outsourced spin offs of main franchises like some other company I could name, Nintendo views its handheld business to be as important as its console business.

SuperFlakeman

Of course they get handhelds, the games are cheap to make, you can rehash the same IPs without people taking too much notice, no effort to bring japanese 3rd parties on board, and you can overprice the games and no one would take notice either.

Nintendo's 25 year old IPs feel more fresh and innovate more than Sony new IPs.

Good riddance to them and Vita

Ah yes the innovation and freshness of gameplay from the N64 days.

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[QUOTE="GD1551"]

Of course they get handhelds, the games are cheap to make, you can rehash the same IPs without people taking too much notice, no effort to bring japanese 3rd parties on board, and you can overprice the games and no one would take notice either.

GD1551

Nintendo's 25 year old IPs feel more fresh and innovate more than Sony new IPs.

Good riddance to them and Vita

Ah yes the innovation and freshness of gameplay from the N64 days.

Realistic looking, non interactive movie game ftw. And shooters. Lots of them. In the form of TPS and FPS.

Realistic looking, non interactive movie game ftw. And shooters. Lots of them. In the form of TPS and FPS.

SuperFlakeman

Ugh.. ok? I'm not sure how proved my statement wrong there.

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Realistic looking, non interactive movie game ftw. And shooters. Lots of them. In the form of TPS and FPS.

GD1551

Ugh.. ok? I'm not sure how proved my statement wrong there.

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[QUOTE="SuperFlakeman"]

Realistic looking, non interactive movie game ftw. And shooters. Lots of them. In the form of TPS and FPS.

Shinobishyguy

Ugh.. ok? I'm not sure how proved my statement wrong there.

Yeah but that has nothing to do with what I said though...

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[QUOTE="GD1551"]

Ugh.. ok? I'm not sure how proved my statement wrong there.

GD1551

Yeah but that has nothing to do with what I said though...

the point you were was a pathetic attempt to downplay nintendo's dominance in the handheld market by dismissing their games as rehashes as well as downplaying the effort third parties put into making gamesShinobishyguy

What?... :| , how did you even arrive at that conclusion? I merely explained WHY nintendo would invest so much more time and effort into the handheld market.

Probably getting ready for a handheld only future. I can't see them surviving much longer with the Wii URR360DD

A merger like this proves that if they go for a handheld only future, they'd be dead in less than a year (of course, knowing you, it's probably something you'd want).

This is actually true. I wish Nintendo would just go handheld only, they get handhelds like no other company.charizard1605

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] But then we'd get terrible Zelda games and no true 3D Marios, so f*ck that.charizard1605

This (though I have only played PH so far and it is FAR from bad). And with OoT 3DS who knows what will come next? Maybe the next OoT or MM (not literally but in terms of quality and feel).

[QUOTE="campzor"]

They definitely treat their handheld business better...much better than their console one.

charizard1605

Too bad it doesn't work this hard for it's consolesCapitan_Kid