Topic: Nintendo Boosts R&D Spending

[Jonnyboy117]

The company increases manufacturing resources for the DS and prepares for Revolution.

According to Asia Pulse (via Yahoo! News), Nintendo Co. Ltd. is preparing to increase its capital spending by 76% this year, mostly for the purpose of fortifying Nintendo DS manufacturing capacities.  The DS has been virtually sold out since its debut in both North America and Japan, and the handheld will launch in Europe and Australia this spring.

Nintendo is also boosting R&D spending by 39% over last year, up to 22 billion yen.  The R&D department is responsible for designing new consoles and other hardware.

Spending for R&D and advertising combined will increase by a total of 5 billion yen over previous targets.

[I2o[G]uE^TacT-X]

If what you say is true, wouldn't that put the new console far behind Xbox2 and PS3 in terms of % completed?

[Gamefreak]

No. I doubt there are no prototypes of the Revolution at all with E3 only 4 months away. And anyway, who said anything about the PS3? Nothing Sony says leads me to believe that it also exists on anything more than pen and paper and software, even though it may be bragging about it's Cell processor, which I've always thought as hyped garbage... And anyway, what's with this nvidia GPU then? As for Xbox, it's probably farther along than PS3 or Revolution but Microsoft's whole strategy is beating the other 2, while Nintendo and Sony are just content releasing it "on time" and not trying to be the first out or anything.

[Nigel]

When did it get  "name."  Or is this something PGC came up with?

[ruby_onix]

You mean the "Revolution" name? Last E3.

IGN Cube

[nemo_83]

I posted this info about the R and D spending in Fast Forward yesterday.  I thought it was good news that they were focusing on the next system.