Nintendo Starts MASSIVE Recruitment Drive - What are they up to?

Nintendo has begun a large-scale recruitment drive. New talent is being sought after to join the Tokyo base and even more so to attend their brand new facility in Kyoto.

Nintendo seems aggressive in their pursuit to expand and attack the HD market. The new facility supposedly will house a whopping 1500 staff members!

[Titanz]

Hopefully this will translate to fewer Nintendo software droughts.

[blaaah]

Nintendo should have bought Capcom instead...

[rezzah]

I doubt Nintendo can handle the games Capcom makes.

Look at Capcom's games being released and games already released, there is nothing like that on the Wii. Just because the WiiU is likely to pull of the graphics, the controller is most likely (based on what is shown so far) not fit for hardcore games.

[Stealth2k]

nintendo has fewer softwre droughts than any other company

[Parapraxis]

That is hilarious.

[juegosmajicos]

I think that's true when you look at them as publishers, but definitely not true if you're talking about their consoles. To be fair, the droughts are caused by the lack of 3rd party developers, and there's no doubt that very few of them learned how to make a dime out of the Wii to begin with. With that in mind, credit should be given to Nintendo for keeping the N64 and Wii alive even when most 3rd parties just didn't care.

[lumley666]

why is this suprising? urrm they do have a new console launching next year

[kneon]

Actually it is a bit surprising, with a console launching next year they should have been hiring a year or two ago.

[lumley666]

well not neceserily bud, they prob had all the staff they needed, im sure allot of the launch games are well underway too, they are prob getting plenty of games started now for the next fewe years, makes sense to me

[DA_SHREDDER]

You just read my mind Kneon. This is sad that they didn't start doing this awhile ago. It'g gonna take months to even have a properly train staff, let alone years already into development for anything. Unless they plan on makings tons of shovelware of course. Gotta love filler games.

[Grip]

Nintendo need a new IP and IP from someone else not the same guy

[darthbill18]

Im calling it! : 3D Pokemon MMO

[TopDudeMan]

YES, PLEASE!!!!

[goodbyeN4Gfaggots]

That would be awesome. :-)

[Shackdaddy836]

OMG that would be amazing! Please!

[Burning_Finger]

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[goodbyeN4Gfaggots]

They are likely recruiting people to start on their own HD remakes. When that happens, you will never hear a Nintendo fanboy saying "What's the point of HD remakes?, i already own the game, im not going to buy the game again just because its HD, what a rip off" again.

[Menashe]

Nintendo already has the five software studios of EAD under Miyamoto's supervision in Kyoto, his Super Mario Galaxy EAD team in Tokyo, the four SPD teams under Sakamoto, Monolith Soft, Retro Studios, Intelligent Systems, Hal Laboratories, Project Sora, Brownie Brown, NST, and ndCube as first party developers.

And they have Alpha Dream, Ambrella, Game Freak, Creature Inc., Arika, Camelot, Genius Sorority, Good-Feel, Grezzo, Monster Games, n-Space, Next Level Games, Noise, Paon, Suzak, Tose, Skip Ltd, and Treasure, who they work with in a second-party capacity.

So, it makes no sense to say they haven't had any of these teams looking into HD development. Obviously, those teams are already working on games for the Wii U. This recruitment job is being done clearly to bolster even more support for Nintendo systems in that there shouldn't be any more software droughts and Nintendo should be fully capable of holding up any of their systems if there isn't enough third-party support.

[Khordchange]

I think it more has to do with deal with droughts, I mean lets not act like nintendo didn't support the wii with games

Mario Galaxy
Mario Galaxy 2
Zelda Twilight Princess
Zelda Skyward Sword
Metroid Prime 3
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Kirby Return to Dreamland
Wario Ware Smooth moves
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Mario Kart Wii
New Super Mario Bros wii
Wii Fit
Wii Motion Plus
Super Smash Brothers
Mario Party 8

and the countless Wii series. and im sure im missing a lot

These are a lot of games, no doubt, but when compared to the 360/ps3 3rd party support, its rather barebones. So by getting more dev team, they are way more easily prepared to be able to make more first party games if the 3rd party decides to offer nothing. I' pretty sure thats what these buildings and dev teams are for

[gypsygib]

The next-gen is starting.

[gumgum99]

The League of Extraordinary Developers?