As part of its latest Corporate Management Policy Briefing for FY2025, Nintendo has reiterated its stance on mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, whereas future acquisitions are by no means off the desk, it will moderately “organically broaden the organisation”.
This, the briefing word claimed, is in order that new employees members to Nintendo can “absolutely be taught and perceive our artistic tradition” — versus splitting issues throughout too many studios, we might think about.
In an age the place smaller studios are continually snatched up by the gaming giants, Nintendo has made only a few acquisitions in recent times. Actually, since 2021, the studio has solely pulled out the merger web on a handful of events. Most lately, Shiver Entertainment was pulled below the Nintendo umbrella again in Might, however earlier than that, now we have to return to 2022 when the Huge N picked up Dynamo Pictures (quickly renamed Nintendo Photos) and SRD, with Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Subsequent Degree 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 potential for additional mergers and acquisitions” — however, as ever, Nintendo would moderately 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 ‘Switch 2’ will be backwards compatible, lastly placing all hopes of ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxer‘ to relaxation… until…
