The ‘Company Profile’ part of the Monolith Soft web site has been up to date and it appears to be like like Nintendo now lastly owns 100% of the corporate (thanks, Automaton West).
The Big N first staked its declare in Monolith again in 2007, buying 80% of its shares from Namco earlier than growing its proportion to 96% in 2011. It’s unclear precisely when the remaining shares got here underneath the possession of the House of Mario, however as much as not less than March of this yr, firm founders Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi and Yasuyuki Honne nonetheless owned the remaining symbolic 4% (in line with the corporate’s 2024 brochure).
Now, nevertheless, issues are wholly in Nintendo’s favour:
Of course, many people have thought of Monolith Soft a first-party studio for a very good whereas now. This is the crew behind the entire Xenoblade video games, having additionally lent Nintendo its improvement knowledge on titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, the Splatoon sequence and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (critically, if you have not checked out the ‘Games’ web page on the corporate’s web site, it is effectively value a glance).
With the remaining shares now in Nintendo’s management, the studio is formally a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Big N. We have Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition to sit up for in March 2025, however we won’t assist however hope that this partnership is cooking up one thing massive for ‘Switch 2’.
