Nintendo President: 'We Are Not Just Blindly Acquiring Companies' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 February 2021 / 2,723 Views
Nintendo announced earlier this year it had acquired Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa in an interview with Nikkei (and translated by VideoGamesChronicle) was asked about Nintendo acquiring studios and he was rather upfront about his thoughts on this. Furukawa says Nintendo has no interest in just "blindly" buying developers.
"This is a partner that we have been working with for many years to develop various software, and we decided that we could improve the quality and speed of development by making it a subsidiary and working together," said Furukawa.
"We are not just blindly acquiring companies because we want development resources. We don’t think that simply expanding the scale of our business will really improve the value of the entertainment that Nintendo provides."
One of the biggest acquisitions in gaming history is Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in a deal that is expected to close soon.
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Is he taking a jab at microsoft buying bethesda?
It seems more defensive to me. Like warding off future questions of the investors asking what studio will be next.
Or to the people who keep wanting them to buy companies
Sounds like a thinly veiled swipe at MS its like he was possessed by the ghost of Hiroshi Yamauchi during that interview.
You nailed it. For a minute i saw old Yamauchi on this man.
Mic drop
That's one of the biggest side-eyes I have seen in an interview.
Same as Sony, they have a different philosophy than MS, plus they already have a good number of stablished studios so no need to rush.
Well, you don't really need additional resources when everything you do is ports and remakes.
You do know Xbox is more profitable now more than ever before right?
Odd think to say, i wonder if his hinting at other companies or just telling the audience they don't have any plans on buying company just because they can.
basically he's saying our acquisitions are targeted at those we see as being close to us ,so don't associate our acquisition with others expansionist policies but it was done in the manner of a put down of MS with the quote "we are not blindly acquiring developers because we want development resources " .
Its quite an assumption to think MS blindly buy developers.
the statement is more about perceptions Nintendo don't want to be seen to be
reactionary and they know people will get the inference and that allows them to show their dissatisfaction with those events without naming MS and getting into a war of words.
By worked with do you mean allowed them to put their games on their systems? Because last I checked there wasn't some sort of Bethesda/MS Studios collaborated game.
And if all you mean is that MS allowed Bethesda games to be published to their platform, then by that logic Sony and even Nintendo have a history of working with Bethesda for a long time.
I believe the history is rich between MS and Beth. Alot of games Bethesda made were PC only and it was Xboxes appoach to bring them to consoles etc. It goes deeper than that i believe.
A lot of games Bethesda made were PC only? Sure, in the 90's. By the time the 360/PS3 were around Bethesda was publishing to three different platforms.
I give Xbox a ton of credit for helping to bring formerly PC-Only series to consoles, but Xbox did that just by existing, during the PS2 era. By the time 360/PS3 were around most PC games were headed to consoles by default.
Goes beyond that. What a terrible take.
Be my guest to explain, don't let me stop you. Hence why i said "It goes deeper that that"
Explain it then. And no take is worse than failing to back up what you just said.
Todd Howard has already said it. The articles are out there. It has been a developmental partnership with Microsoft giving more assistance than just allowing bethesda to publish games on an Xbox.
I don't think its something companies blindly do per se... unless its EA.
That's a stupid thing to say. No company just blindly acquires another company.
