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[GigaDrive]

isn't there a division at Nintendo that has designed and is designing hardware and has worked / is working with partner companies (SGI, ArtX, IBM, Matsushita, ATI, etc) ?

is it the same division that (with help) designed the GBA, Gamecube, DS, and are working on Revolution and the next GameBoy?

what is this division? if there's more than one, what are they?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Nintendo R&D 1 handles development of hardware, although I think house 2 also does some work, too.

 

[jarrod]

Nope, it's NTD for consoles, R&D1 for GameBoy iirc. I'm not sure who developed DS though.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Isn't NTD a subsidary of R&D1?

R&D 1 probably designed the DS.

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Nintendo Research & Engineering develops and designs Nintendo handhelds. This division was once part of Nintendo R&D1, but no longer. Satoru Okada is the General Manager of that division, which basically took all the old designers and engineers that worked for Yokoi on GB, and VB.

Nintendo Technology Development (USA) and Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (Japan) handle Nintendo's console technology design.

 

[jarrod]

Who handled Nintendo DS?

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Nintendo R&E - Looks like Kenichi Sugino is being credited as the or top creator in the Nintendo DS design.

 

[SantaC]

Ninja to the rescue

 

[GigaDrive]

Nintendo Research & Engineering develops and designs Nintendo handhelds. This division was once part of Nintendo R&D1, but no longer. Satoru Okada is the General Manager of that division, which basically took all the old designers and engineers that worked for Yokoi on GB, and VB.

Nintendo Technology Development (USA) and Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (Japan) handle Nintendo's console technology design.

thanks Ninja