Nintendo Job Offer Hints At Next Gen Console
The Nintendo Switch is one of the Japanese console maker's most successful platforms ever, even ousting the extremely popular Wii to become the third best-selling video game console of all time. While the Switch has a firm place in video game history, it is the case that Nintendo fans have been antsy for some time waiting for its successor with talk about a Switch Pro or a Switch 2 rumbling on in the background.
A new job posting however shows indications of Nintendo's thoughts about the next generation. And funnily enough it's for the NERDs among you. Well, to be specific, Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD). The job offer was shared on ResetEra and details a posting for a 'Game Technologies R&D Engineer/Scientist'. This person will be needed for, among other things, "high performance implementation" and "cross-platform development".
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The job offer looks to be legitimate and is dated for this year and includes some highly suggestive tidbits that might offer clues about Nintendo's future. As mentioned, the job offer is for NERD, which is a French subsidiary of Nintendo and located in central Paris. Apparently, this more tech focused offshoot of the company works with their Japanese and American counterparts on such things as emulation, signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning, among other things. But this specific job posting relates to game development.
The job will need the applicant to work on real-time rendering and game engine architecture but here's the key part—"The goal will be to aim for and go beyond state-of-the-art solutions in these fields, targeting current and next generation Nintendo platforms". It continues,
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