Nintendo is reportedly considering the idea of making its new development centre in Japan bigger than planned, delaying its completion to 2028 or later.
Last year the company successfully purchased the land next to its main headquarters in Kyoto, andThe roughly 10,000 metre-squared site, which Nintendo purchased for ¥5 billion , will be the home of its new building, tentatively named Corporate Headquarters Development Centre Building No 2.
The original plan was that the building would be 12 storeys tall and would be completed in 2027. However, according toNikkei’s report claims that Nintendo is anticipating a long-term increase of staff, and is therefore considering the addition of extra floors to the building, pushing the completion date back to 2028 or later.
According to Nikkei, Nintendo hired 130 new graduates in fiscal year 2023, which it says is 50% more than three years ago. The article quotes Nintendo president Shuntaro Furakawa as saying: “The development resources required per piece of software are increasing. We would like to maintain the level of recruitment of the past few years.”Nintendo said in a management briefing in November 2021 that the
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