Picture: NintendoThe ‘Firm Profile’ part of the Monolith Gentle 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 growing its proportion to 96% in 2011. It is unclear precisely when the remaining shares got here below the possession of the Home of Mario, however as much as at the very least March of this 12 months, firm founders Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne nonetheless owned the remaining symbolic 4% (in keeping with the corporate’s 2024 brochure).
Now, nevertheless, issues are wholly in Nintendo’s favour:
Picture: Monolith Gentle
After all, many people have thought-about Monolith Gentle a first-party studio for an excellent whereas now. That is the staff behind all the Xenoblade video games, having additionally lent Nintendo its improvement knowledge on titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, the Splatoon sequence and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (critically, if you have not checked out the ‘Video games’ web page on the corporate’s web site, it is nicely value a glance).
With the remaining shares now in Nintendo’s management, the studio is formally a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Huge N. We’ve got Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version to stay up for in March 2025, however we won’t assist however hope that this partnership is cooking up one thing massive for ‘Change 2’.
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[source monolithsoft.co.jp, via automaton-media.com]
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