The Official 2013 R&D Restructure Thread
Internal Division Restructure
System Development Division
- Network Development & Operations Department (over 100 staff. most network engineers)
- Environment Development Department (develop SDKs and other experimental technology)
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
- Kyoto Software Development Department (300+ staff)
- Tokyo Software Development Department (40-50+ internal staff, 18 1-Up Studio support staff)
- Technology Development Department
Software Planning & Development Department
- Software Planning & Development Department
- Software Development & Design Department
Integrated Research & Development Department
- Unknown Development Department (new merged hardware development staff)
Buildings
- Central Office
- Kyoto Research Institute
- Kyoto Development Complex
- Tokyo Office
- Osaka Office (may soon house R&D)
Kyoto Research Institute
- Intelligent Systems 90+ Developers
- Mario Club 100+ Debuggers
- ???
Kyoto Central Office
- Former home of EAD, empty R&D offices turned into clerical?
Nintendo Company Changes
- 1-Up Studio Co., Ltd. (formerly Brownie Brown Co., Ltd.)
- Nintendo Network Services Co., Ltd. (formerly Wii No Ma Co., Ltd.)
- Nintendo European Research & Development Inc. (formerly Mobilclip Co., Ltd.)
Personnel Notes
- Takashi Tezuka promoted to Executive Officer of EAD Division
- Kensuke Tanabe promoted to Executive Officer of SPD Division
- Katsuya Eguchi promoted to General Manager of EAD Software Development Department
- New Producer and Manager of EAD Software Development Group No. 2 (Since Eguchi got promoted)
- Yoshio Sakamoto promoted to General Manager of Software Planning & Development Department)
- Intelligent Systems and Mario Club remaining in Kyoto Research Institute?
Personnel Hiring
- Nintendo Software Technology Corp. hiring programmers
- EAD Kyoto hiring
- EAD Tokyo hiring game directors, planners, CG designers, programmers, musicians.
- Retro Studios hiring.
