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The Nintendo Software Planning & Development division is a research, planning, and development division inside of Nintendo Co., Ltd main central headquarters. The division has two departments, Software Planning & Development Department and Software Development & Design Department, and was created during a corporate restructuring in late 2003 with the abolition of the old Nintendo R&D1 and Nintendo R&D2 teams. While several of the remaining Nintendo R&D1 designers reside in the division along with a staggered group of former Nintendo R&D2 and Nintendo EAD staff, the programmers and artists consist of a lot of new talent. The group has the task of independently developing small innovative games, assisting other development teams on projects, and managing overseas production of first-party franchises. Both SPD and SDD departments are currently split into four separate groups who work concurrently on different projects.
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