The ‘Firm Profile’ part of the Monolith Tender web site has been up to date and it appears to be like like Nintendo now lastly owns 100% of the corporate (thanks, Automaton West).
The Huge N first staked its declare in Monolith again in 2007, buying 80% of its shares from Namco earlier than rising its proportion to 96% in 2011. It is unclear precisely when the remaining shares got here underneath the possession of the Home of Mario, however as much as a minimum of March of this yr, firm founders Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne nonetheless owned the remaining symbolic 4% (in response to the corporate’s 2024 brochure).
Now, nevertheless, issues are wholly in Nintendo’s favour:
In fact, many people have thought-about Monolith Tender a first-party studio for a very good whereas now. That is the group behind the entire Xenoblade video games, having additionally lent Nintendo its growth knowledge on titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, the Splatoon collection and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (significantly, if you have not checked out the ‘Video games’ web page on the corporate’s web site, it is effectively value a glance).
With the remaining shares now in Nintendo’s management, the studio is formally a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Huge N. Now we have Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version to stay up for in March 2025, however we will not assist however hope that this partnership is cooking up one thing massive for ‘Swap 2’.
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[source monolithsoft.co.jp, via automaton-media.com]
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