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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/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ni...

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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...

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

Wait, "seven floors of an office park building" are all seven floors of this depicted building, lol...

That is a new building, which is 200 meters away from the main one:

https://goo.gl/maps/hLfERuVH8GAcX9LP9

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).

TBH that is most of silicon valley too. Look at google's or microsoft's campuses

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.

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_...

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.

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.

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/w...

Wow.

How about The Pokemon Company's headquarters: 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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