david.dakota Posted April 1, 2012 Posted April 1, 2012 Nikkei are reporting Satura Iwata has been planning a major overhaul of the Nintendo business, to be announced to investors on this week. The focus of Iwata's plan seems to be to spilt the current business into two - Nintendo Hand and Nintendo Vision. Nintendo Hand will develop and license its portable division; whilst Nintendo Vision will develop and license its home console hardware. Both companies will remain under full ownership of NCL but, Iwata believes, will be small enough and lean enough to to re-act faster to changing technology and consumer behaviour - a tactic Nintendo hopes will help them stay ahead of Apple, Google and LG. Iwata believes that in due course, both hardware divisions will be able to proceed with any project they see fit and profitable; we could see new televisions or cell phones with built in Nintendo hardware. Without directives and pressure from the Board, each team can reach greater heights. Further restructuring in late 2012 will see Nintendo's software development teams spun off from NCL to create Portfolio - a fully owned subsidiary who will become officially licensed Publishing partner in the same way EA or Activision are. The principle behind this is to ensure other publishers do not feel Nintendo products gain an unfair advantage in the market place ("only Nintendo games sell well on Nintendo platforms"). Portfolio will be in place for the lauch of WiiU and be mandated a 10-year exclusivity deal. Valuable IPs will not be transferred to Portfolio, but be licensed to them from NCL. It is considered that splitting the business in this way an excellent way of stablising NCLs share price and allowing the head company to weather the effects of poor sales/changing consumer behaviour. Link
Fused King Posted April 1, 2012 Posted April 1, 2012 (edited) Sounds interesting! I like it when Iwata gets all business-like and lays down the law on his minions. Makes him look like a somebody :3 Edited April 1, 2012 by Fused King
royaaa Posted April 28, 2012 Posted April 28, 2012 Nintendo usually likes to keep things pretty close to its vest, so you'd expect details about the Wii U, the company's next generation console, to be pretty scant right now. Nope. With the system's big coming out party planned during the E3 video game expo just over a month from now, we're learning plenty about what the company has in store, though far from everything so you'd Video Game Accessoire expect details about the Wii U, the company's next generation console, to be pretty scant right now.
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