Information about recreation firms buying one another has been a sizzling matter within the business for fairly a while. Each Sony and Microsoft have been busy shopping for off many recreation firms, with Microsoft not too long ago shopping for Activision Blizzard Leisure simply final 12 months. Nintendo, in the meantime, has been quiet with regard to acquisitions. Nonetheless, that has modified because it introduced that it has acquired Shiver Leisure and will likely be getting “100% of the excellent shares” of the corporate. This isn’t the primary time Nintendo felt like shopping for an organization out of the blue. A number of years in the past, it bought Dynamo Footage (now named Nintendo Footage) and Subsequent Degree Video games, the studio behind the Mario Strikers, Punch-Out, and different video games.
Shiver Leisure was beforehand a part of Embracer Group till it was bought for $247 million. Shiver’s position primarily was porting video games equivalent to Mortal Fight 11 and Mortal Fight 1 to Swap. Additionally they developed a recreation referred to as Scribblenauts Showdown. After the corporate’s acquisition, Nintendo stated, “Shiver’s focus will stay the identical, persevering with commissions that port and develop software program for a number of platforms, together with Nintendo Swap.” With that in thoughts, we will see what additional plans Nintendo has for its newly acquired firm.
Supply: Nintendo of Japan Press Release