As part of its latest Company Administration Coverage Briefing for FY2025, Nintendo has reiterated its stance on mergers and acquisitions. Particularly, whereas future acquisitions are by no means off the desk, it will quite “organically broaden the organisation”.
This, the briefing observe claimed, is in order that new workers members to Nintendo can “absolutely be taught and perceive our artistic tradition” — versus splitting issues throughout too many studios, we would think about.
In an age the place smaller studios are always snatched up by the gaming giants, Nintendo has made only a few acquisitions lately. Actually, since 2021, the studio has solely pulled out the merger internet on a handful of events. Most lately, Shiver Leisure was pulled beneath the Nintendo umbrella again in Might, however earlier than that, we now have to return to 2022 when the Massive N picked up Dynamo Footage (quickly renamed Nintendo Footage) and SRD, with Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Subsequent Stage Video games being bought earlier than that.
To be clear, the briefing specifies that future purchases of this ilk are usually not off the desk — “we don’t rule out the opportunity of additional mergers and acquisitions” — however, as ever, Nintendo would quite go its personal approach and develop issues organically earlier than calling on the assistance of others.
Elsewhere within the briefing, Nintendo made it official that ‘Swap 2’ can be backwards suitable, lastly placing all hopes of ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxer‘ to relaxation… except…
