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Now their headquarters are 7 floors in a generic office park building! The new strategy turned out to be successful I guess :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wik

by lqet 5y ago

Now their headquarters are 7 floors in a generic office park building! The new strategy turned out to be successful I guess :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Nintendo_Headquarters_-_panoramio.jpg/1280px-Nintendo_Headquarters_-_panoramio.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ni...

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raldi 5y ago
Looks better if you zoom out a little: https://i.imgur.com/UYUpUDT_d.webp?maxwidth=1200&fidelity=high https://i.imgur.com/UYUpUDT_d.webp?maxwidth=1200&fidelity=hi...
- froh 5y ago
  Wait, "seven floors of an office park building" are all seven floors of this depicted building, lol...
- pezezin 5y ago
  That is a new building, which is 200 meters away from the main one: https://goo.gl/maps/hLfERuVH8GAcX9LP9 https://goo.gl/maps/hLfERuVH8GAcX9LP9 https://goo.gl/maps/PpndZavS65ZccC8c8 https://goo.gl/maps/PpndZavS65ZccC8c8 I took a walk around there in late 2013, and I was surprised that for such a big company, the buildings are rather unimpressive, and they are located in an otherwise normal neighbourhood, surrounded by... houses (I expected them to be located in an business district).
  - novok 5y ago
    TBH that is most of silicon valley too. Look at google's or microsoft's campuses
    - ulfw 5y ago
      There are basically no houses next to GOOG and MSFT. There's the big 101 highway and the other side is the Bay. South of it is Moffatt, north the nature preserve and then more companies and Palo Alto airport etc.
robmiller 5y ago
I worked on the design of their US HQ in Redmond. Despite anything the architect could dream up, they like the metaphor of the cube...
Jensson 5y ago
They aren't the top gaming company though. Tencent has some pretty big offices. Point is that they didn't want to be in a market where the top is that low, then you have to be the best to get a decent size, in computer gaming you can be one of many and still be much bigger. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Tencent_binghai_building202012.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Tencent_...
- eganist 5y ago
  In fairness, they're probably the best vertically integrated family friendly electronic gaming company, and so long as they don't goof in that specific vertical, they've probably got a lock on it for a while. At least until Disney truly decides to venture into hardware.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  Is Tencent really a gaming company? I suspect the revenue they get from all of their gaming ventures combined would be a drop in the ocean compared to WeChat.
  - Jensson 5y ago
    Close to half their revenue comes from games, so yes. Gaming is huge. They do a lot of things, but games is still their core business. https://2eo55h24wdu6nyeph4frss2b76-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/tencent_q1_2019_4_sources_2019-1024x777.png https://2eo55h24wdu6nyeph4frss2b76-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/w...
    - AussieWog93 5y ago
      Wow.
baron816 5y ago
How about The Pokemon Company's headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#/media/File:Roppongi-Mori-Tower-01.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#/medi... (fyi they don't take up the whole building). That actually is a playing card company.

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raldi 5y ago

Looks better if you zoom out a little: https://i.imgur.com/UYUpUDT_d.webp?maxwidth=1200&fidelity=high https://i.imgur.com/UYUpUDT_d.webp?maxwidth=1200&fidelity=hi...

froh 5y ago
Wait, "seven floors of an office park building" are all seven floors of this depicted building, lol...
pezezin 5y ago
That is a new building, which is 200 meters away from the main one: https://goo.gl/maps/hLfERuVH8GAcX9LP9 https://goo.gl/maps/hLfERuVH8GAcX9LP9 https://goo.gl/maps/PpndZavS65ZccC8c8 https://goo.gl/maps/PpndZavS65ZccC8c8 I took a walk around there in late 2013, and I was surprised that for such a big company, the buildings are rather unimpressive, and they are located in an otherwise normal neighbourhood, surrounded by... houses (I expected them to be located in an business district).
- novok 5y ago
  TBH that is most of silicon valley too. Look at google's or microsoft's campuses
  - ulfw 5y ago
    There are basically no houses next to GOOG and MSFT. There's the big 101 highway and the other side is the Bay. South of it is Moffatt, north the nature preserve and then more companies and Palo Alto airport etc.

robmiller 5y ago

I worked on the design of their US HQ in Redmond. Despite anything the architect could dream up, they like the metaphor of the cube...

Jensson 5y ago

They aren't the top gaming company though. Tencent has some pretty big offices. Point is that they didn't want to be in a market where the top is that low, then you have to be the best to get a decent size, in computer gaming you can be one of many and still be much bigger. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Tencent_binghai_building202012.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Tencent_...

eganist 5y ago
In fairness, they're probably the best vertically integrated family friendly electronic gaming company, and so long as they don't goof in that specific vertical, they've probably got a lock on it for a while. At least until Disney truly decides to venture into hardware.
AussieWog93 5y ago
Is Tencent really a gaming company? I suspect the revenue they get from all of their gaming ventures combined would be a drop in the ocean compared to WeChat.
- Jensson 5y ago
  Close to half their revenue comes from games, so yes. Gaming is huge. They do a lot of things, but games is still their core business. https://2eo55h24wdu6nyeph4frss2b76-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/tencent_q1_2019_4_sources_2019-1024x777.png https://2eo55h24wdu6nyeph4frss2b76-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/w...
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    Wow.

baron816 5y ago

How about The Pokemon Company's headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#/media/File:Roppongi-Mori-Tower-01.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#/medi... (fyi they don't take up the whole building). That actually is a playing card company.