What is Nintendo working on? Come on, you should know by now that they never say. No one ever really knows until their poorly named, insanely popular consoles hit the market.
So who knows that they'll be doing in their new research and development facility that they just dropped ¥12.8 billion ($141.9m) for. The new site is right near their current offices in Kyoto, Japan. It is here that Nintendo will work on new software for their current platforms as well as new game consoles.
I wonder what the team that created the DS and Wii are making next. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that new building.
[Via Gamespot]
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1:00 PM on 02.11.2009
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As for this new R&D facility; I think now that HDTVs are gaining a lot more momentum and the components required to make an HD console have dropped significantly, the next Nintendo console will most likely be HD, will no doubt have a hard drive and will still look like it was made by Apple.
Ironically, "Fly on the Wall" is the name of the new game they're developing there.
Yeah what the hell were they thinking? They're only outselling the competition by 2:1. So why wouldn't they make a more expensive HD system just so they could sell less systems like Sony, and Microsoft are now? What were you thinking Nintendo? What were you thinking?
That's all good and well if you're Nintendo, but for the rest of us we might like to see something worth turning the thing on for. Just because a ton of people buy something doesn't mean that it's good. You'd have to be a small child or an idiot to believe that.