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UltimaKilo
Gold Member
I hope the means creating at least one new major internal studio, and bolstering Retro, Camelot and Monolith Soft to help churn out more content.
Probably fewer than the number of employees laid off by the rest of the industry
yurinka
Member
They bought a porting studio, so their workers are part of these 400.
The rest of the industry in addition to fire also hires people. As an example, after firing around 100 people Bungie hired around 500 more.
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Nah, Shiver is not being counted here, they were acquired in the new FY, this is a report for their previous fiscal
Gambit2483
Member
That's actually really good news. That means more support for their existing teams and (hopefully) more games to develop for in the pipeline.
Nintendo out here showing the rest of the industry how it's supposed to be done.
Nintendo out here showing the rest of the industry how it's supposed to be done.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
They have to scale up to hit PS4 Pro quality assets. They might be slower actually.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well seeing as how Nintendo's literally never been more profitable than they are now, they can and they should be hiring while the iron is hot. And they've always been disciplined in that way, they don't overhire during booms and then have to lay off during busts. They're steady as she goes, and then employees always feel secure in their job and do their best work.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Games have never taken longer to make than they do now. Nintendo is no exception, especially going into next-gen development.
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Woopah
Member
We know MonolithSoft has been expanding but I imagine most new developers will go into the EPD pool in preparation for their new building.
Camelot wouldn't count as they are independent.
GoldenEye98
posts news as their odd job
Those games aren't going to port themselves...
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
First thing I want to see is their d e i report make sure that they have enough diversity there that's really important. It's also really important to hire all these people to let us know how much better they are than everybody else.
It takes a lot of work to remake the same game six times. Rendering those assets and converting them to a different system I really have to admire that level of work. And really it helps them out and you need even more people to make graphics that are three generations behind. It's no wonder they need to hire people.
They're doing this for us.
It takes a lot of work to remake the same game six times. Rendering those assets and converting them to a different system I really have to admire that level of work. And really it helps them out and you need even more people to make graphics that are three generations behind. It's no wonder they need to hire people.
They're doing this for us.
LavitzSlambert
Member
Makes a lot of sense considering their increased presence beyond the video game industry. I expect this to continue as they open things like the Nintendo Store in San Francisco, Nintendo World in Universal, and continue to partner with the movie industry to expand their brand.
hybrid_birth
Gold Member
I was recently hired at Nintendo as a plumber. They treat their plumbers really good for some reason.
Osaka_Boss
Member
Lawyers are prolly an outsourced law firm
winjer
Gold Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
They really need to spend billions on acquisitions + shut them down if they want to compete with Sony and MS
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Except they should be able to do things fas
er because they are usually a generation behind in technology and graphic assets. Which could be a benefit going forward for them. That and relying on hardware for upscaling allows older tools to work in modern gaming.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
It's only a generation behind to you, though. The only thing that matters is what they are going from to what they are going to, in their technology and development pipeline. It's a leap for them, so it's a leap. A leap is a leap.
Gambit2483
Member
Working for Nintendo is almost like getting a government job. It probably has one of the highest job securities in the industry.
Hudo
Gold Member
But they're a generation ahead when it comes to game design, tho. So it evens out.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Not criticizing I’m just stating of all the companies Nintendo is best suited to not have longer development times for most titles. As they don’t usually require massive training on newer engines etc they live in a safer environment with established tools and systems.It's only a generation behind to you, though. The only thing that matters is what they are going from to what they are going to, in their technology and development pipeline. It's a leap for them, so it's a leap. A leap is a leap.
It’s one of the reasons we don’t usually get bad ports as it’s not experimentation really more stretching resources
Woopah
Member
I can't thing of any new stores opened in the last fiscal year, but this would include all those QA contractors they hired.
CartesianMan
Member
Switch 2 need more people to develop the games and Nintendo is preparing fo launch.
Nothing to see here.
Nothing to see here.
Holammer
Member
Same as Valve, if you get fired from any of them, it's probably for a damn good reason.
TIGERCOOL
Member
I think there's an interesting point to consider here. Most western companies employed loads of useless eaters during the gaming/tech industry boom for political optics and because of well documented government incentives. These were the tiktokers making their "day in my corporate life" vids where they basically sat around being redundant while enjoying company perks. These positions were mercilessly rooted as soon as the going got tough.
Nintendo (Japan) has never followed these practices, so I'm not surprised that they didn't "trim the fat" like many others.
Variahunter
Member
I think it's not about technology for Nintendo. They've reached a point where the more advanced technology will be used to render their artstyle with higher resolution and frame rates, for most of their titles, or help rendering more objects, better LOD, and much post processing i.e. much better lighting, shadows etc...It's only a generation behind to you, though. The only thing that matters is what they are going from to what they are going to, in their technology and development pipeline. It's a leap for them, so it's a leap. A leap is a leap.
Those things do not take a longer time to produce, in fact they are just easier (global illumination for exemple, instead of manually placing each source of light), considering they have only one console to care about and not a myriad of configuration.
Of course, we'll see improvements like on the textures etc... but overall, when I look at Mario Odyssey, I don't really think it needs a lot more to shine on textures and geometry of assets.
So what I'm saying is, for most of their titles, the artstyle will allow them to not escalate the cost of production, while still seeing improvements on graphics like post processing, frame rate, resolution. Excluding titles like Metroid, maybe Zelda depending on the artstyle, Xenoblade...
There is not a lot of expectations on graphics for Nintendo, game design is what the people are looking for when buying a Nintendo product nowadays and I suspect that Nintendo won't push their graphics that much in order to not create high expectations for their futures titles on that department, even if their console could do it.
lame gag1990
Member
How many employees does it take to port old games? 400+.
hybrid_birth
Gold Member
Username checks out.
Angry_Megalodon
Gold Member
more important than 400 employees is that they only have 3 hair colors: black, yellow, or brown.
AMSCD
Member
Imagine being this obsessed with "wokeness"
People on here keep whining about all this drama being allegedly forced into games, and then they can’t go without bringing up that drama every chance they get
Maybe the problem isn’t “wokeness” the problem is them. But some people lack the self awareness to see that.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Physiognomonics
Member
There are no PS4 Pro quality assets. And there wouldn't be either for Nintendo. It's going to be soon PS4 quality assets
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NanaMiku
Member
Hmm, no info if it's in Japan only or all regions.
Woopah
Member
It will be for all regions.
Hmm, no info if it's in Japan only or all regions.
Use Discord, that works for me
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
This is the aspect that people seem to be ignoring in this thread. The developers hired at Nintendo are often life-timers. Plenty of other companies have much higher hiring numbers, but that’s usually because they have so much more turnover and layoffs.
Nintendo has a working formula, and it’s fucking insane to me that most other companies don’t try to emulate that.
Hudo
Gold Member
What also comes with having employees work for a long-ass time at a company is institutional knowledge and the transfer (to new employees) thereof. This is, by far, the most valuable resource a company has.
