Towards the end of Nintendo's most recent financial results briefing, president Shuntaro Furukawa touched on two matters linked to the current company operations in Tokyo, Japan.
The Nintendo group within this location is divided across four separate offices, which is apparently "inconvenient" in terms of operational efficiency. To help improve the overall performance, Furukawa revealed how these existing locations would be consolidated into a single office located within Kanda-Nishikicho in Chiyoda Ward.
Currently, our group is divided among four offices in Tokyo for operations including development. This separation of locations is inconvenient in terms of operational efficiency, and for that and other reasons these locations will be consolidated into a single office together with a part of our group companies to create a system that can boost operational efficiency. The new Tokyo office will be located in Kanda-Nishikicho in Chiyoda Ward, and preparations are being made for the move.
Nintendo will also be making a change to its corporate governance system, which it hopes will increase the objectivity and transparency in the nomination and compensation process of Directors. Below is the full rundown from Furukawa:
The second point I would like to mention is a change made to our corporate governance system, which we announced yesterday. We have established a Nomination Advisory Committee to serve as an advisory body to the Board of Directors for deliberation on matters of nomination and compensation, such as the election of Directors. It was created with the aim of increasing objectivity and transparency in the nomination and compensation process of Directors. The Committee’s principal membership will be made up of Outside Directors and an Outside Director will also serve as the chairperson. We will continue to work toward further enhancing our corporate governance system.
What are your thoughts about these adjustments to company operations? Tell us below.
[source nintendo.co.jp]
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Reminds me of when Nintendo combined its handheld and console divisions in 2013, which gave birth to the Switch four years later. I wonder what this new operational efficiency will bring.
This seems like it could make discretely looking at porn on the job more difficult.
@ironike This doesn't sound like something the consumer will really see, at least not at the level which that merger brought.
@DrDaisy It weeds out the weak. The strong will always find a way.
With this new consolidation i hope they port sekiro into switch!
Combining handheld and home console is not enough, lets combined all our offices.
@christ15 I tried to get them to do that, but they flipped my off so I ripped all their middle fingers off and threw 'em into the fire.
I think these changes have been coming since Furukawa took over. While under the guidance of Kimishima, one could only believe he was helping in tightening up the ship.
I heard they’re working on a new style of office that can be undocked and taken home with you. But, could just be a rumour.
@Maxz I hear you can take it anywhere even on a plane
Nintendo Gattai!!
@ironike It's the Tokyo, not Kyoto, so it isn't their head offices... so I'd guess it won't be a real big change.. If I'm not mistaken the only think they make in Tokyo is 3d Mario. Maybe they'll increase development there?
Sounds great! If they combine Nintendo EPD Tokyo, Monolith, 1-Up and NDcube under one roof, they could easily support each other in technologies and finishing their products. They could even form a AAA studio which is on par with EPD Kyoto, Rockstar and the other best studios in the world!
Headline is that there will be a new big office in Tokyo.
Then there's a picture of the Kyoto headquarters, that only says the new Tokyo office is NOT pictured.
Very informative! ^^
This reminds me of EA’s E3 Battlefront showcase where all they talked about was how worked on the game instead of actually showing a game trailer. One part being how they “took the walls away from the office so they could have a more “togetherness feeling,” while they worked” or some bs like that.
So, departments are all coming together, huh?
That does leave us with the question if it is now a home office, a handheld office or a hybrid office...
@ThanosReXXX "or a hybrid office... "
Look who does jokes now.
BTW, I thought the joke was worthy of a not a
@Pod "Very informative! ^^"
Thanks. I couldn't' understand the article, but your comment at least explained to me why it was giving me a splitting headache.
As AnnoyingFrenzy mentioned, this may not be something that noticeably impacts consumers in the future, enough that consumers link back to this. On the other hand, time will tell.
The cautionary takeaway here for consumers is the last bit about an adjunct advisory board to the board that will seemingly have total control of who is appointed to the board.........and it will be made up of entirely outside directors.
I.E. They're turning the reigns of control of the company to EXTERNAL forces outside the company. That sounds like the death blow to the Nintendo we know.
And that's to say nothing of if Tencent gets involved - the seeds for sellouts/mergers/buyouts/takeovers may have been planted with this at worst, and the EA-ification of Nintendo at best.
@rjejr Glad you could appreciate it.
@ThanosReXXX I gave you a like, but then remembered this isn't twitter so you wouldn't know, so I'm telling you.
@NEStalgia Is that what that 2nd paragraph said?
The only thing worse than Google Translate is Bureaucrat translate. Though I tend to give Ntineod the benefit of the doubt w/ the Japanese to English stuff but that was pretty dense.
@rjejr Haha. Yeah...it's always the stealth paragraphs that seem innocuous burried below the bigger seeming news that actually star the beginning of the end. One day you have a "new corporate governance system with outside directors advising the appointment and compensation of directors", and the next day you have Xi Xipin selling you to Bain Capital who will use you to rack up $1.3b in unsecured debts and liquidate you so they can build an entertainment resort island for the Bezos family in the middle of the Atlantic.
@NEStalgia I can see that happening, hence the IP Article. And it only got 12 comments, b/c sneaky corporate speak.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01/nintendo_provides_an_update_on_its_ip_expansion_says_its_starting_to_see_results
Soon there won't be any more games, we'll just all be staying in Nintendo hotels.
@rjejr I already kinda figured, because of the positive comment. On a side note: the tongue out smiley was chosen on purpose, as a nod towards all the individuals still debating about what the Switch actually is.
P.S.
Got a new series for you to check out: Manifest. Great story, interesting characters, and it's a hit series, so it should at least last for three to four seasons (second season is already running). I've now watched 8 episodes, and I'm really liking it.
@rjejr If the -=NEW=- Nintendo(R) Love Hotels are full featured with a full array of microtransactions, I suppose it's not so bad.
But, yeah, I feel like Nintendo, the last old-world bastion of sanity is going the way of "cash out everything to please investors this quarter, liquidate next quarter" once they've exhausted it. I feel like "business" today is about start up an idea, get investors to fuel a $3 trillion explosion in 10 years, then run out of new ways to please investors and close up. It's an endless array of imploding companies, always with the same song of too much unsustainable growth too rapidly. Too much debt. No company lasts 40 years let alone 100 years now unless it's a government contractor. Nintendo was one of the few that weren't consumed by investors. Yamauchi had an iron fist and dictated his terms. Iwata was an idealist. But now we're down to "normal business guys who care only about quarterlies and helping investors maintain full control of the business." After you implode your company, you get hired as CEO for the next company after demonstrating how effectively you were able to liquidate the whole company straight to the investors!
@ThanosReXXX I just read something recently about Manifest on twitter. Cant' recall why or what but it was positive. I'll keep it in mind but I have SO MANY shows I'm trying to get caught up on as it is, can't really start a new one right now.
@NEStalgia Pretty much. Very few new idea anymore, now it's just get as much out of the old ideas as you can before everything winds up going bust.
Nintendo's BIG new game this year, AC4. Or is it 5? Nobody calls it that, but it is. They'll all be sitting around playing their new AC game mocking people for playing the "same ole" CoD.
I hate a lot of things in this world, but it always comes back to hypocrites for me. Like in the other thread were it always boils down to 'free-to-play' games w/ all their micro-transactions suck, but give me '$60-to-start' and $30 season pass any day. And they don't even realize they're doing it b/c $60 base games are "complete". smh
@rjejr Most reviews I've seen are quite positive about it. And no worries: obviously, it was just a suggestion, not a command to go and watch it...
@rjejr Haha, true though the difference is at least you have a fixed fee at $90 for a game (hidden inflation.....? Like how bags of sugar are now 4lb, or worse, 3.5lb instead of 5lb like they were for 200 years but nobody noticed...."same price!")
Whereas mtx is unlimited spending. I do still like that much less. But I do admit GaaS has made me buy less games. I'm just not interested in undefined content and money holes and have been finding other interests to spend on more instead....
@NEStalgia I can see why people like the $90 model instead of the free model, but I've also played Gems of War for free on Switch for about 500 hours w/o spending a dime. And I really never ever want to know how many hours I spent on Candy Crush. And you can get God of War or Spiderman or HZD or The Witcher 3 for $20 a eyar after release, so I still stay Nintneod has a stranglehold on greed.
And while I didn't comprehend a few of your abbreviations - now I know how Thanos feels - getting Gamepass for 3 months for $1 is letting me play several games. Sure, I'll never own them, but almost every game I've ever played is 1 and done and I don't care after that. I can live w/o the box on my shelf, less stuff for my wife to trash after I'm gone. Kids these days live an entire digital rental existence, they don't know from ownership anyway. Though my son is reading physical comic books at $5 a pop, so I did something right.
It should be noted that both Gamefreak and 1-Up Studios are also relocating their headquarters to the same area as this new Nintendo Tokyo site.
@rjejr kids love a rental existence because mumsy and dadsy pay for it and it's unlimited. They can't imagine losing it and then having nothing at all. Or it's the older younger group that knows they're smarter than everyone that came before them and their salary will get better and better forever and recessions can't ever happen again because progress.
When the Ring Fit it his the Labo shan they're going to eat us, and we haven't enough ammo...
@NEStalgia I'm going to shoot them w/ our near endless supply of Nerf guns and ammo. I figure they're so used to being shot in Fortnite and not feeling anything that even the impact of Nerf bullets will cause them enough pain to give me a chance to escape as they're all like - "Wait, I felt that, how can that be, you don't feel bullets, bullets are all virtual, this does not compute, AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Kids today only know Pickard, it won't be enough to save them.
@rjejr I'd recommend the leaded Nerf darts...
I never knew there where 4 offices.
do they still make the mario games in tokyo or did that team move to kyoto?
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