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Post by parrothead on Jun 19, 2009 23:57:41 GMT -5
I've been wondering about this for a quite long period of time, until I came across the 8th post in this thread at another forum: www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=257214It seems that as soon as Nintendo IRD quit their business, most of the team either retired or decided to do something else, either with Nintendo or another company. |
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Post by Leon on Jun 21, 2009 17:21:15 GMT -5
From what I've read, those that still work for Nintendo are either in Nintendo SPD or working at hardware R&D. So games from them would be collaborations with third parties like Punch Out!!, Metroid: Other M, Excite Bots, and Geist.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 25, 2009 13:18:04 GMT -5
Nintendo IRD always had an integral role in producing hardware, and I believe the team is still working to this end in some capacity.
Genyo Takeda was able to produce games because he had an unusual interest in America and the American market. Obviously, back in the old days it was easier to make games, and many teams struggled to move into 3D (including Intelligent Systems and R&D1). I expect IRD was among them.
Genyo Takeda is now General Hardware Manager, and was key in moving Nintendo away from boosting the graphics and not providing new experiences. So his team has been key to the direction of the DS and the Wii! And he's been working towards this end (with success it seems) since 2002.
So that's what IRD is doing.
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Post by eadninja on Aug 22, 2009 21:59:40 GMT -5
All the programmers and artists have been transferred to other internal divisions. Takeda's group is really almost all engineering, industrial design, and technology research.
Maybe that can change some day? But I don't know. It seems every division in Nintendo stays small other than EAD which keeps growing.
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