Information about recreation firms buying one another has been a scorching matter within the trade for fairly a while. Each Sony and Microsoft have been busy shopping for off many recreation firms, with Microsoft lately shopping for Activision Blizzard Leisure simply final yr. 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 can 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. Just a few years in the past, it bought Dynamo Footage (now named Nintendo Footage) and Subsequent Stage 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 offered for $247 million. Shiver’s position primarily was porting video games resembling Mortal Fight 11 and Mortal Fight 1 to Change. Additionally they developed a recreation known as Scribblenauts Showdown. After the corporate’s acquisition, Nintendo mentioned, “Shiver’s focus will stay the identical, persevering with commissions that port and develop software program for a number of platforms, together with Nintendo Change.” With that in thoughts, we will see what additional plans Nintendo has for its newly acquired firm.
Supply: Nintendo of Japan Press Launch