A brief look at Nintendo’s newest acquisition.
You could be forgiven for thinking, ‘Another day, another video game company acquisition,’ but Nintendo’s announcement that it is buying Shiver Entertainment and making the port specialists a wholly-owned subsidiary isn’t business as usual for the Japanese firm.
Nintendo is, historically, extremely cautious when it comes to acquiring outside developers, preferring strategic partnerships rather than introducing financial risk by having more teams come under the first-party umbrella. Nintendo’s coffers have been spilling over throughout the Switch’s cycle and it could have easily gone on an Embracer-style spending spree during the COVID boom years, but that’s not its style. With Embracer Group now restructuring, the Swedish company’s loss is Nintendo’s gain.
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